Saturday, June 30, 2012

Press Releases | TONIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Press Releases | TONIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

"FM patients benefitted from bedtime very low dose cyclobenzaprine and that improvements were correlated with increased nights of restorative sleep. "

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Online PTSD treatment for anxiety and stress

Online PTSD treatment for anxiety and stress:

"For those seeking treatment for PTSD and traumatic stress using confidential computer therapy, PTSDSTRESS.COM offers an affordable and effective treatment option that reduces the stress and painful memories of PTSD and traumatic stress"

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New University of South Florida therapy may ease PTSD - News - Stripes

New University of South Florida therapy may ease PTSD - News - Stripes

"Accelerated resolution therapy uses elements of existing cognitive behavioral therapies, as well as lateral sets of left/right eye movements designed to minimize anxiety and body sensations associated with recall of traumatic memories, and replace distressing images with favorable ones. The treatment often only takes one to five sessions to complete and does not use drugs."

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Richard Zombeck: Below the Fold: Wells Fargo Gets Picked Up On Radar

Richard Zombeck: Below the Fold: Wells Fargo Gets Picked Up On Radar

"Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone recently published an article that, while long is by no means a slog, details how the TBTF banks were engaged in bid rigging of municipal bonds in "virtually every state, district and territory in the United States," and how "Wall Street wiseguys" spent the past decade taking part in a breathtakingly broad scheme to skim billions of dollars from cities and small towns across America."

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

FTC sues Wyndham Hotels after three credit card breaches - SC Magazine

FTC sues Wyndham Hotels after three credit card breaches - SC Magazine

The Federal Trade Commission is suing a major hotel chain and its subsidiaries for allegedly failing to secure the financial information of its guests, which led to fraudulent charges of more than $10 million and the siphoning out of hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers.

Stuxnet Will Come Back to Haunt Us - NYTimes.com

Stuxnet Will Come Back to Haunt Us - NYTimes.com:
This mirrors what Stephen Cobb has been saying all along...no matter how hard you try to create a virus to attack a specific host, it will always get out into the wild. There's just no way to ensure that the virus was written perfectly (because, in part, there are no "prefect" systems?)
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Facebook named in a third of divorce filings in 2011 - NY Daily News

Facebook named in a third of divorce filings in 2011 - NY Daily News:

I guess this puts a lot of private detectives out of business! No more crime novels where the grungy retired police officer stakeout cheap hotel rooms in the hopes of finding evidence to be used in a divorce. All they need to do now is look at Facebook pages?

I also recently read that scholarships are looking at applicants' Facebook pages when the applicant is looking for college money. If there are drunken pictures on the applicants' Facebook pages, no money for college. (Maybe that ought to be a type of intelligence test...if you're dumb enough to put up incriminating Facebook postings, then you're too dumb for college!)

Friday, June 22, 2012

Debunking cybercrime myths

Light Blue Touchpaper Blog Archive Debunking cybercrime myths

Our paper Measuring the Cost of Cybercrime sets out to debunk the scaremongering around online crime that governments and defence contractors are using to justify everything from increased surveillance to preparations for cyberwar

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Monday, June 18, 2012

Spokeo to Pay $800,000 to Settle FTC Charges Company Allegedly Marketed Information to Employers and Recruiters in Violation of FCRA

Spokeo to Pay $800,000 to Settle FTC Charges Company Allegedly Marketed Information to Employers and Recruiters in Violation of FCRA:

According to the FTC, Spokeo collects personal information about consumers from hundreds of online and offline data sources, including social networks. It merges the data to create detailed personal profiles of consumers. The profiles contain such information as name, address, age range, and email address. They also might include hobbies, ethnicity, religion, participation on social networking sites, and photos.

RPT-REUTERS SUMMIT-Hacked companies fight back with controversial steps - chicagotribune.com

RPT-REUTERS SUMMIT-Hacked companies fight back with controversial steps - chicagotribune.com: Other security experts say a more aggressive posture is
unlikely to have a significant impact in the near term in the
overall fight against cybercriminals and Internet espionage.

Pain Contracts: "Cooperation" or Coercion? | VMCA

Pain Contracts: "Cooperation" or Coercion? | VMCA

Pain Contracts are another result of the DEA's war on pain patients and their doctors. Doctors use pain contracts to cover their rear; as proof to the DEA and other law enforcement agencies that they are properly supervising those patients who get opiates. An additional benefit to doctors is that they serve to dissuade patients from filing lawsuits who have been discharged for failing to follow the rules. They treat pain patients as suspects in advance. But are these contracts really legally binding? Definitely not.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

What Is Hemochromatosis? - NHLBI, NIH

What Is Hemochromatosis? - NHLBI, NIH

For people who are diagnosed and treated early, a normal lifespan is possible. If left untreated, hemochromatosis can lead to severe organ damage and even death.

Clinical consequences of iron overload in hemochromatosis homozygotes

Clinical consequences of iron overload in hemochromatosis homozygotes:

This approach, however, is both impractical and unethical. Once cirrhosis due to hemochromatosis is established, life expectancy is shortened even if phlebotomy therapy is initiated.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

I know someone whose 2-factor phone authentication was hacked... - William Edwards, Coder

I know someone whose 2-factor phone authentication was hacked... - William Edwards, Coder:

They key thing? Phone company support staff have been successfully socially engineered from like forever, and for those preferring technical attacks phones can be cloned too.

Google's two-factor glitch ends in 4chan attack - Security - News - ZDNet Australia

Google's two-factor glitch ends in 4chan attack - Security - News - ZDNet Australia:

Prince was using a 20 character, highly randomised password; however, the hackers were able to bypass it by asking Google for an account reset. One option for recovering an account is to have Google send a confirmation code to the phone number associated with the account, and where SMS is not available, it sends the code as a voice call.

Prince believes that the hackers began the recovery process and intercepted the confirmation code by socially engineering US telco AT&T's support staff to gain access to his voicemail, where the code would have ended up.

Microsoft scrambles as it patches 26 bugs, warns users of active attacks

Microsoft scrambles as it patches 26 bugs, warns users of active attacks

Seven weeks later, Microsoft tossed one of its Chinese partners, Hangzhou DPTech Technologies, from an information-sharing program it hosts for scores of antivirus firms. Microsoft said that DPTech had "breached our non-disclosure agreement" as it pinned the leak on the firm.

Why smart authors are cutting Amazon out | VentureBeat

Why smart authors are cutting Amazon out | VentureBeat:

So it would behoove all authors who can sell their book to sell it on their own website and not on Amazon.

Facebook privacy policy vote in: users don’t press ‘Like’ - Hindustan Times

Facebook privacy policy vote in: users don’t press ‘Like’ - Hindustan Times:

“Despite our significant efforts to encourage users to vote, only 342,632 people participated, which amounts to a tiny fraction of our user base of more than 900 million,” said Elliot Schrage, Vice President, Communications, Public Policy and Marketing at Facebook.

Monday, June 11, 2012

DEA public health damage

"It is important to note that much of the public health damage here is caused not by the doctors accused of wrongdoing, rather it is caused by doctors-in-good-standing who, faced with a patient in pain and therefore at risk of being targeted by the DEA, modify their treatment in an attempt to avoid regulatory attention."

Dr. DeLuca

Sunday, June 10, 2012

This is a problem:
The "chilling effect" is a phrase which describes the grotesque distortion of the norms of medical practice and the violation of the doctor-patient relationship that results from the withdrawal of physicians from the appropriate treatment of pain due to fear of litigation, loss of livelihood, and incarceration.

Friday, June 8, 2012

5150 (Involuntary psychiatric hold) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

5150 (Involuntary psychiatric hold) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Section 5150 is a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code (specifically, the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act or "LPS") which allows a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine a person deemed to have a mental disorder that makes them a danger to him or her self, and/or others and/or gravely disabled.

Undeniable rights

Under California law, the following rights may never be denied (Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 5325.1):
  • The right to treatment services which promote the potential of the person to function independently. Treatment should be provided in ways that are least restrictive of the personal liberty of the individual.
  • The right to dignity, privacy, and humane care.
  • The right to be free from harm, including unnecessary or excessive physical restraint, isolation, medication, abuse, or neglect. Medication may not be used as punishment, for the convenience of staff, as a substitute for, or in quantities that interfere with the treatment program.
  • The right to prompt medical care and treatment.
  • The right to religious freedom and practice.
  • The right to participate in appropriate programs of publicly supported education.
  • The right to social interaction.
  • The right to physical exercise and recreational opportunities.
  • The right to be free from hazardous procedures.

Additional rights

Additionally, every mental health client has the right to see and receive the services of a Patients' Rights Advocate. All patients also have the following treatment rights:
  • The right to give or withhold informed consent to medical and psychiatric treatment, including the right to refuse medications (WIC-5325.2) except in emergency (W&I 5008 (m)) situations where danger to life is present; or by court order where the patient is found to lack the capacity to give or refuse informed consent via either a Capacity Hearing (see W&I 5332) and also known as a Riese hearing or via conservatorship.
  • The right to refuse psychosurgery (Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 5326.6).
  • The right to refuse electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) unless court ordered (Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code 5326.7.).
  • The right to confidentiality (Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 5328).
  • The right to inspect and copy the medical record, unless specific criteria are met (Cal. Health & Safety Code § 1795).
  • The right to have family/friends notified of certain treatment information with patient's permission (Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 5328.1).
  • The right to an aftercare plan (Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 5622).

Deniable rights with good cause

Psychiatric facilities must also uphold the following specific rights, which can be denied only when "good cause" exists.[4]
  • The right to wear one's own clothing.
  • The right to keep and use one's own personal possessions, including toilet articles, in a place accessible to the patient.
  • The right to keep and spend a reasonable sum of one's money for small purchases.
  • The right to have access to individual storage space for one's own use.
  • The right to see visitors each day.
  • The right to have reasonable access to phones both to make and receive confidential calls.
  • The right to have access to letter-writing materials, including stamps.
  • The right to mail and receive unopened letters and correspondence.

With good cause

Denying a patient's rights requires good cause. Good cause is defined as the belief of the professional in charge of care for the client that the specific right would cause
  1. a danger to self or others;
  2. a serious infringement on the rights of others; or
  3. serious damage to the facility;
and that there is no less restrictive measure that would protect against those occurrences.
Patient rights cannot be denied as a condition of admission, nor as part of a treatment plan (a doctor may not designate patient rights a 'privilege' or 'punishment'). Any time a right is denied under good cause, it must be documented in the patient's medical record and explained to the patient. The denial must be reviewed regularly and removed once good cause no longer exists.
When a right is denied, the reason given for denying the right must have some clear relationship to the right denied.[5] For example, a patient may be denied the right to keep his cigarettes (the right to keep and use personal possessions) because he is burning himself and lighting fires, and lesser restrictive alternatives (supervision during designated smoking times) have failed. This rule prevents facilities from denying rights as a form of punishment; for example, if a patient misbehaves by throwing food at another person, then the facility cannot take away personal possessions or deny visitors for the day.

Without good cause

If a right was denied without good cause, a patient can instruct his or her appointed public defender to file an Ex Parte application with the court to restore the right. After filing the application, a hearing is set and an opportunity to be heard by the judge concerning the merits of the case is reviewed; the judge determines if the right will be restored or remain listed as a "good cause" denial. An Ex Parte can bring relief in a matter when a person is deprived of any interest in liberty or property without due process of law.

Making Sense of Pain Relief

Welcome to Making Sense of Pain Relief: Health Care Providers Who Treat Pain: If you are looking for a health care provider to help treat your arthritis or joint pain, you have many options.

The use of OxyContin was associated with an average 2.3 day reduction in inpatient services among patients following total knee arthroplasty (Cheville et al., 2001). In addition data from two retrospective database studies have shown OxyContin to have economic advantages among the long-acting opioids. The first study showed that starting pain treatment using OxyContin for chronic pain conditions, compared to either controlled-release morphine sulfate (CRMS) or Duragesic, can produce savings on total healthcare costs, total pharmacy costs, long-acting opioid costs, and often times short-acting opioid costs.

Additionally, a second study documented the fact that health-care costs were $17,580 higher among patients who switched therapy versus those who did not. The study documented that patients who begin therapy with controlled-release oxycodone are less likely to switch to another medication than those initially treated with either transdermal fentanyl or CRMS. These findings are of economic relevance, as health-care costs are significantly higher among patients who switch LAO therapy in comparison with those who do not.

In summary, a consistent pattern of pain reduction or continuing, stable pain control supported the analgesic efficacy of OxyContin tablets among patients with malignant and non-malignant pain syndromes. Use of OxyContin has been associated with significant improvements in patientreported outcomes, and limited available economic evidence suggests that OxyContin represents
a cost-effective use of scarce health resources.
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Question abot switching from OXYCONTIN to OPANA ER, Need some Info Please?

Question abot switching from OXYCONTIN to OPANA ER, Need some Info Please?

I have taken Oxycontin for many years at a dosage of 120 mg 4x daily, since people have abused Oxycontin so much, the pharmacutical company changed the breakdown, and therefore they don't work the same,

daily dose oxcontin - Google Search

daily dose oxcontin - Google Search

OxyContin 60 mg and 80 mg tablets, a single dose greater than 40 mg, or a total daily dose greater than 80 mg are only for use in opioid-tolerant patients.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Protect Your Rights. Get Every Penny You Deserve.

Protect Your Rights. Get Every Penny You Deserve

 If you are applying for Social Security Disability Insurance, "SSDI," or Supplemental Security Income, "SSI," you must understand... the odds are overwhelming you will be denied... no matter how valid your claim!