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Medical Records Stolen As 1 Million Patients Hit By Healthcare Hack

Community Health Center discloses massive patient data breach. getty Update, Feb. 2, 2025: This story, originally published Jan. 31, now includes further expert comments on the cybersecurity challenges facing healthcare providers following this latest medical records breach and a ransomware attack against a major blood donor group in New York. With ransomware attacks reaching record […]

Mayo Clinic and American Hospital Dubai Strengthen Collaboration to Transform Healthcare and Medical Education in Dubai

DUBAI — American Hospital Dubai, a distinguished member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network and the globally renowned Mayo Clinic, announced an enhanced collaboration marking a milestone in advancing healthcare delivery, medical education, and research in Dubai and the region. The announcement was made at Arab Health 2025, the healthcare industry’s premier event being held […]

Tomorrow’s Cure: How Hollywood technology is transforming medical education

Hollywood’s cutting-edge technology is revolutionizing medical education, bridging the gap between classroom learning and clinical practice. Through immersive digital scenarios, medical students are refining their skills and gaining hands-on experience for real-world challenges. Discover how this innovative technology is transforming medical education in a new episode of Tomorrow’s Cure. Featured experts on the podcast episode […]

Business & Finance

DOJ sues Walgreens alleging prescriptions filled without medical purposes

In an aerial view, a customer enters a Walgreens store on Jan.4, 2024 in San Pablo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Department of Justice said Friday that it sued pharmacy giant Walgreens for allegedly dispensing millions of unlawful prescriptions. The DOJ said that Walgreens from August 2012 until the present “knowingly” filled those […]

Mayo Clinic launches Mayo Clinic Digital Pathology to modernize pathology, speed medical breakthroughs

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Against the backdrop of the 43rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Mayo Clinic announced the formation of Mayo Clinic Digital Pathology, designed on a platform architecture to boldly unlock the power of its extensive archive of digital slides to revolutionize pathology and accelerate medical breakthroughs. Mayo Clinic’s expertise, de-identified clinical data, and […]

Technology

It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs

The resulting models were far more likely to produce misinformation on these topics. But the misinformation also impacted other medical topics. “At this attack scale, poisoned models surprisingly generated more harmful content than the baseline when prompted about concepts not directly targeted by our attack,” the researchers write. So, training on misinformation not only made […]

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Doctors, Dentists, And Other Medical Pros Are Sharing Things Patients Often Overlook Or Omit (But Shouldn’t)

A doctor’s office can be a very stressful place, and there are times a patient might overlook, ignore, or omit things about their symptoms, medical history, treatment course, or anything else that might bring them to seek professional care. ABC I recently asked medical professionals of the BuzzFeed Community: What common things do people often […]