by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 28, 2020 | Nonprofit Management
Three years after 23 state charity regulators filed a lawsuit, Paypal caved in and has agreed to provide more information to donors who use the Paypal Charitable Gift Fund to make donations to nonprofits. According to the terms of the settlement, Paypal will also have...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
The weather forecast is notoriously unreliable. But with the aid of better data sources and analytics, they have become much more accurate in the short term than they used to be. Epidemiologists who model the spread of flu face some of the same challenges. And...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
Data-driven techniques and technologies help smart cities identify when and where outbreaks begin, model how the outbreaks would spread, and advise how outbreaks could be contained. Katie Pyzyk filed this report for smartcitiesdive.com: Analytics technology provides a...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 15, 2020 | Health vs. Hype
Health Versus Hype Project: January’s Most Over- and Under-Hyped Medical Research Studies Americans rely on the news media to accurately report on new health-related research. But the media often gives credence to dubious or inconclusive studies while ignoring...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 12, 2020 | Health vs. Hype, Nutrition and Diet
A team led by Dr. David Ludwig from Boston Children’s Hospital that reviewed diet trials found that 86% of such studies “lacked rigor” and were prone to bias. Ludwig adds that diet research is also severely underfunded. Nathan Gray filed this report in NUTRA: When the...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 12, 2020 | Health vs. Hype, Nutrition and Diet
The costs of diet-related diseases are rising fast but Washington is still not alarmed enough to open the purse strings for federal nutrition research. Helena Bottemiller Evich and Catherine Boudreau filed this report for Politico: A POLITICO review of federal budget...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 12, 2020 | Health and Privacy
Researchers have found that hackers who instigate healthcare data breaches are usually looking for personal data that can be used for fraud or identity theft. Only two percent of compromised medical data were sensitive material like diagnoses or medical images....
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 11, 2020 | Health and Privacy
With healthcare systems now a favorite target of hackers, it is alarming to note that nearly a quarter of all healthcare employees don’t receive cybersecurity training even though more digitally-connected devices have been deployed than ever before. Mike Chapple, an...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 11, 2020 | Health vs. Hype, Nutrition and Diet
Several studies, including a widely reported-on study published recently in the International Journal of Cancer, have examined the link between hair dye and cancer. But the media members who cover these studies do not always gleam the truth from naked rows of numbers...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 11, 2020 | Health vs. Hype, Nutrition and Diet
A data-centered approach is seen as the future of diabetes diagnosis and treatment. Akansh Khurana filed this report in BioSpectrum: Once prediabetes progresses to diabetes, it leads to serious complications and becomes much harder to control. Screening and awareness...
