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- Can Obama’s New Consumer Privacy Bill Keep Your Data Safe? Today, the Obama administration is to unveil a new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, which it hopes to roll out in order to protect people’s privacy online. The question is, can it work?
- Financial connections between drug recommendations and drugmakers. A very cool chart outlining the connection between big pharma and the writers of the model guidelines for prescribing narcotic painkillers.
- Money, Coercion, and Undue Inducement: Attitudes about Payments to Research Participants. Using payment to recruit research subjects is a common practice, but it raises ethical concerns that coercion or undue inducement could potentially compromise participants’ informed consent.
- Pediatric Vaccine Linked To Slight Risk Of Febrile Seizure. DTaP-IPV-Hib vaccination was associated with an increased risk of febrile seizures on the day of the first 2 vaccinations given at 3 and 5 months, although the absolute risk was small.