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Pharmaceuticals
Experimental drug promises to kill the flu virus in a day | The Wall Street Journal
Japanese drugmaker Shionogi has an experimental drug that, in a trial, killed the flu virus in 24 hours. Roche's Tamiflu takes three times as long.
Information technology
OCR appoints Timothy Noonan as acting deputy director after losing its second health privacy lead in 4 months | Fierce Healthcare
Timothy Noonan is replacing Iliana Peters as the acting deputy director for health privacy at the Office for Civil Rights. Peters had been at the OCR for 12 years.
How the Trump administration's broadband policies will impact telehealth | Medcity News
More competition in the broadband marketplace could help telehealth, which can be hindered by slow connections.
Public health
CDC influenza surveillance data confirms severity of flu season | Health Data Management
Hospitalizations due to the flu are the highest they've been since the CDC began closely monitoring them in 2010. About 51 people out of every 100,000 have been hospitalized for the illness.
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Winter Olympics was hit by cyber-attack, officials confirm | The Guardian
Hackers hit the Olympics website just before the opening ceremony. The wifi in the Pyeongchang Olympic stadium also went down. Some are worried that the attacks came from Russia, whose Olympic committee and athletes were banned from this year's games.
Experimental drug promises to kill the flu virus in a day | The Wall Street Journal
Japanese drugmaker Shionogi has an experimental drug that, in a trial, killed the flu virus in 24 hours. Roche's Tamiflu takes three times as long.
Information technology
OCR appoints Timothy Noonan as acting deputy director after losing its second health privacy lead in 4 months | Fierce Healthcare
Timothy Noonan is replacing Iliana Peters as the acting deputy director for health privacy at the Office for Civil Rights. Peters had been at the OCR for 12 years.
How the Trump administration's broadband policies will impact telehealth | Medcity News
More competition in the broadband marketplace could help telehealth, which can be hindered by slow connections.
Public health
CDC influenza surveillance data confirms severity of flu season | Health Data Management
Hospitalizations due to the flu are the highest they've been since the CDC began closely monitoring them in 2010. About 51 people out of every 100,000 have been hospitalized for the illness.
In other news
Winter Olympics was hit by cyber-attack, officials confirm | The Guardian
Hackers hit the Olympics website just before the opening ceremony. The wifi in the Pyeongchang Olympic stadium also went down. Some are worried that the attacks came from Russia, whose Olympic committee and athletes were banned from this year's games.
