Be very afraid. Hospital and medical devices have been found to be infected by a computer worm (kind of like a virus), reports this Mercury News article, Conficker worm hits hospital devices, "A computer worm that has alarmed security experts around the world has crawled into hundreds of medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other countries, according to technologists monitoring the threat." What I find so disturbing in the article is, "the working group has seen thousands of other machines located in hospitals reach out to the Conficker mastermind by contacting another computer on the Internet for instructions." The potential danger could be leaking of your health information, or the medical devices could be recruited as robots in an attack on other computer systems. Isn't technology grand!?
Monday, May 4, 2009
Medical Devices Infected By The Conficker PC Worm
Saturday, April 18, 2009
New Guidelines Released for HIV Opportunistic Infections
The first complete update in five years of the U.S. guidelines for preventing and treating HIV-associated opportunistic infections has been released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention in cooperation with the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). The new Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents apply state-of-the-art science and medicine to 29 infectious diseases of concern. More than 140 medical experts contributed their knowledge to this edition of the guidelines, released on April 10. These new guidelines can be viewed in either html or pdf formats: Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents (html) or Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents (pdf)
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