By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - The security of the Obama administration's healthcare website was at "high risk" because of lack of testing before it opened for enrollment on October 1, according to a government memorandum reviewed by Reuters on Wednesday. The HealthCare.gov site collects a trove of sensitive data such as social security numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and birth dates that could be used by criminals in an array of schemes. "From a security perspective, the aspects of the system that were not tested due to the ongoing development exposed a level of uncertainty that can be deemed as a high risk," said the memo from Department of Health and Human Services officials James Kerry and Henry Chao. According to the document, the recommendation was approved by Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the lead agency at HHS managing the 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare.
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Neuroscientists in Japan and Brazil have revealed that the brain has special neural circuits to detect snakes, suggesting that the evolution of high-quality vision in our ancestors was driven by the threat of snakes. Hisao Nishijo and Quan Van Le at Toyama University, Japan; and Rafael Maior and Carlos Tomaz at the University of Brasilia, Brazil; and colleagues show that there are specific nerve cells in the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys that respond to images ...
A group of paediatricians have reportedly advised that parents must exert limitations on the excessive use of technology by their children. The American Academy of Pediatrics said that parents need to know that unrestricted media use can have serious consequences, including violence, cyberbullying, school woes and obesity among others. Dr Victor Strasburger, lead author of the new policy for parents, explained that many parents are clueless about the ...
