Category «Healthcare»

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 4, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Should AI Tools For Doctors Be Licensed Like Doctors?; The New Surveillance State Is You; Mojeek, the independent search engine worth trying; WIRED Data Breach; an How the human harms of cybercrime shook the world in 2025.

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Medical Research, Privacy, Search Engines

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 6

As we approach January 20, 2026, the one year mark of the second Trump administration, Americans are witnessing the exercise of vast, often illegal and unconstrained presidential powers, unprecedented in our history. The impact of these powers, within our government, the private sector, and around the globe, continue to resonate. Part 6 of this series gives special attention to how operationalizing the full scope of actions outlined in the “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” has impacted the lives of ordinary Americans, regardless of where they live, with which party they may be affiliated, their age, ethnicity or gender. Consistent with the previous five parts of Sabrina I. Pacifici’s series, this article examines only one month, December 2025, of the Trump administration’s war every aspect of our democracy.

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Education, Energy, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Resources, Health, Healthcare, Legal Research, United States Law

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 20, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Online Shoppers Beware — Study Finds Fake Delivery Sites Exploding Ahead of Holiday Rush; FBI Couldn’t Read Data Pointing to Pipe Bomb Suspect; Medicare.gov to deploy ID.me for beneficiary verification; and How to spot videos created by artificial intelligence.

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Government, Economy, Healthcare, Privacy, Social Media, United States Law

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health – Part 5

The fifth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focuses once again on government resources, data and datasets that been taken offline, censored or otherwise altered to block access. As these data are no longer updated, the value and relevance to researchers decreases rapidly. These data operationalize critical work performed by federal government agencies and in concert with academic institutions and research institutions. The scope of this censorship has wiped out taxpayer funded research across across all subject matters, which until this administration, was openly posted on e-government sites for further exploration and enhancement by both the public and private sectors.

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Resources, Healthcare, KM, Legal Research

All government shutdowns disrupt science − in 2025, the consequences extend far beyond a lapse in funding

The government shutdown will continue until Congress can pass a bill reopening it. Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images U.S. science always suffers during government shutdowns. Funding lapses send government scientists home without pay. Federal agencies suspend new grant opportunities, place expert review panels on hold, and stop collecting and analyzing critical public datasets that tell …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Government Resources, Health, Healthcare

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 4

This the fourth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici on the Trump administration’s relentless attacks against science, medicine and public health, government sponsored data collection and reporting, climate science, and censorship of government documents and federally funded academic research and scholarship. Our country continues to face daily attacks on our civil liberties, access to accurate, actionable and science based medical and health information, broadening censorship of government information, and the dismantling of our non partisan federal workforce. These attacks have bypassed laws and regulations that exist to ensure equality, justice, the rule of law and the safeguarding of civil liberties. These dangerous cracks in the pillars of US democracy have shattered long agreed upon norms that have until January 20, 2025 defined how the institutions and procedures of our three co-equal branches of government, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches sustain democracy. In the month of October alone, our government and the economy, public health and safety, our legal system, science and research, food and nutrition programs, public health and critical vaccine programs, have sustained irrevocable blows by the Trump administration.

Subjects: Archives, Big Data, Civil Liberties, Economy, Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Resources, Healthcare, Leadership, Legal Research, Medical Research

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health Part 3

This is a follow up to two previous articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici on the Trump administration’s relentless attacks against science, medicine and public health, government sponsored data collection and reporting, climate science, free speech, and the censorship of federally funded academic research and scholarship. The rapid fire assault against the heart of our democracy stunningly continues to escalate, per the Project 2025 roadmap operationalized under the direction of Russell Vought and Stephen Miller, fracturing our public policy, governance, the economy, muzzling the education system, and eradicating our foreign policy and diplomacy. Pacifici’s article focuses on the administration’s new actions in September 2025, documenting censorship in all sectors, across agencies, universities, corporate activities and the economy.

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Constitutional Law, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Contracts, Health, Healthcare, Legal Research, United States Law

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health – Part 2

This is a follow up to Sabrina I. Pacifici’s July 31, 2025 article, The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health. In just one more month the administration has ramped up its use of unsupportable actions to expand the cancellation of billions of dollars of congressionally approved funding for a broad swath of government-funded agencies, institutions, programs and leading edge initiatives. They also relentlessly target and censor academic research in the sciences, public health, medicine, and on the climate crisis. The deliberate collateral damage has purged the leadership in organizations whose subject matter expertise drives vast knowledge acquired through decades of public service. The continued decimation of the country’s long standing support for the sciences impacts every person in America. It has fractured our collective human and technological systems and resources. The scope and specificity of the bare knuckle attacks and the implications are exposed.

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Health, Healthcare, Legal Research, Medical Research, Viruses & Hoaxes

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health

Sabrina I. Pacifici’s overview of selected articles highlights the devastating impact of the Trump administration’s dismantling of agencies across the federal government, with a focus on cancelling critical scientific and health related research grants, as reported in July, 2025. The total cancellation of funds is escalating as grant suspensions are ongoing, but it is in the billions of dollars. Unilateral, sweeping and rapid actions are targeting a wide range of projects, programs, education and funding for research on critical health issues including: Alzheimers’, cancer, the climate crisis, weather and forecasting, vaccines, HIV, infectious diseases, food and drug safety, fossil fuels, air and water pollution.

Subjects: Climate Change, Education, Energy, Federal Legislative Research, Freedom of Information, Government Resources, Healthcare, KM