“At the urging of the Senate Finance Committee, the United States Congress mandated that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sponsor a study by the IOM to address the problem of medication errors. Preventing Medication Errors puts forward a national agenda for reducing medication errors based on estimates of the incidence and cost of such… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2006
FDA Scientists Disclose Political Interference within the Agency
Press release: “The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today released survey results that demonstrate pervasive and dangerous political influence of science at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Of the 997 FDA scientists who responded to the survey, nearly one-fifth (18.4 percent) said that they “have been asked, for non-scientific reasons, to inappropriately exclude or… Continue Reading
GAO Report on Hospital Disaster Preparedness
Disaster Preparedness: Limitations in Federal Evacuation Assistance for Health Facilities Should be Addressed GAO-06-826, and Highlights, July 20, 2006. “Hurricane Katrina demonstrated difficulties involved in evacuating communities and raised questions about how hospitals and nursing homes plan for evacuations and how the federal government assists. Due to broad-based congressional interest, GAO assessed the evacuation of… Continue Reading
Judge Denies Government's Motion to Dismiss AT&T Case
Press release: “A federal judge today denied the government’s motion to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) case against AT&T for collaborating with the NSA in illegal spying of millions of ordinary Americans. This allows the case to go forward in the courts.” Related postings on domestic surveillance programs Continue Reading
House Report Identifies Post 9/11 Security Efforts Unfulfilled
House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Democratic Staff report, To Secure America: The 9/11 Commission’s Homeland Security Recommendations (33 pages, PDF), “provides a side-by-side comparison of 9/11 Commission recommendations, notable action taken to realize these recommendations, and critical efforts that must still be accomplished.” Continue Reading
Amnesty International Releases Report on Search Engine Censorship in China
Press release: “Amnesty International (AI) today released a new report, “Undermining Freedom of Expression in China,” (32 pages, PDF) exposing how Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google have violated their stated corporate values and policies in pursuit of the potentially lucrative Chinese market. In sync with the report release, the organization unveiled irrepressible.info, a new campaign for… Continue Reading
Gov't Targeting Terrorists by Extensive Data Mining of Financial and Personal Data
USAToday.com reports that up to eight data mining programs have been deployed by intelligence agencies to mine financial and personal records in an effort to identify potential terrorist activities. Related postings on domestic surveillance programs Continue Reading
Google Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged
Fom Google Labs, Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged: “In addition to finding the most relevant results as measured by Google’s search algorithms, it further sorts results based on the simplicity of their page layouts.” Accessible Search FAQ Google Tests Accessible Search Page Continue Reading
Mideast Crisis Tracker
A WSJ free featurea, this Mideast Crisis Tracker, launched on July 12, is “updated regularly with news on the Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon crisis, ET.” Continue Reading
2006 AALL Diversity Symposium Presentations
Pioneer Minority Law Librarians PowerPoint, compiled by Lauren M. Collins of Wayne State University Law Library Diversity in Law Librarianship Bibliography, compiled by Tina S. Ching of the Arizona State University Law Library [via Andrew Evans, Washburn University Law Library] Continue Reading
Proposed FISA Legislation Supports Status Quo According to Recent Commentary
Follow-up to recents postings on FISA that include House Intelligence Hearing on Modernizing FISA and Draft Agreement With White House on Domestic Surveillance Oversight, see this new article on the subject by Edward Lazarus: Why The “Compromise” Foreign Surveillance Wiretap Legislation Pending in Congress Is No Compromise: The Bill, and Senator Specter’s Strange Reversal on… Continue Reading
House Gov't Reform Cmte Approves Sunset Commissions
HR 3282, approved 16-15; HR 5766, approved 15-12; Side-by-side comparison of Sunset Commission Bills in the 109th Congress, by OMBWatch. Continue Reading
