(Bio)ethics, Data Privacy, Human Subjects

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  Would you know what to do if your health insurance claim is denied?

  CBS News - By Anna McAllister

  MIAMI - Millions of Americans are weighing in with grievances about healthcare insurance after United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was brazenly shot …

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  House GOP Uses Must-Pass Defense Bill To Strip Care From Military Families’ Trans Kids

  HuffPost - Jennifer Bendery

  A provision tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act forces parents in the military to weigh their careers against providing health care for loved ones. WASHINGTON — House Republicans have tucked a provision into a must-pass defense bill that would strip health care from military families’ …

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  Dealing corpses from a Las Vegas strip mall: A look inside the shadowy U.S. body trade

  NBC News - By Mike Hixenbaugh, Susan Carroll, Liz Kreutz and Tyler Kingkade

  This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. LAS VEGAS — Obteen Nassiri was in need of a new line of work. After losing his chiropractor’s license following allegations that he had misled patients and defrauded insurers out of …

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  New documentary details how governments use spyware to monitor citizens’ phones

  PBS News - John Yang

  This past week, the White House detailed the scope of a massive Chinese hacking campaign that reaped information from American cell phone networks. …

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  For patients and doctors, insurance prior authorization can be a dangerous game | Opinion

  USA TODAY - Dr. Fumiko Chino and Dr. Nathan Gray

  But it is not a game. For one of our leukemia patients, he lost time fighting to get pain medication – time he didn't have. A man with leukemia wrestles with his insurance company for access to medications to manage his excruciating pain. An oncologist is forced to delay needed treatments while …

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  My Daughter Desperately Needs Brain Surgery. Our Insurance Company's Response Has Been Shocking.

  HuffPost - Beth Swanson

  "The insurance company has an army of people who are very concerned about paperwork and precise wording ... My kindness and patience has shifted to fury." I was packing the day before our flight when the phone call came. I had a stack of Natalie’s pajamas — the soft ones, cut low enough to sit below …