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Some people are not too happy about some of the recent changes to PHIA that would give charitable and research foundations your information so they could solicit funds from you. A change to medical privacy laws designed to help patients and families get better access to medical records will also help hospital foundations get better…

Tim Carpenter reports: Gov. Mark Parkinson said Friday several state agencies were complying with an edict to reform a program that for decades allowed inmates in the custody of the Kansas Department of Corrections to access personal information of citizens. He said new safeguards were being put in place at the Kansas Highway Patrol, Kansas…

Matthew Sturdevant reports: In a case that raises concerns about the handling of genetic and medical information, a Fairfield woman has filed a discrimination complaint after she had a voluntary double-mastectomy, then lost her job. Pamela K. Fink had the surgery last October after genetic tests suggested that she was at risk for breast cancer….

Organ donation has become a vital way to save lives around the world, but a vast shortage of donors continues to mean people are losing their lives while on waiting lists. But there is a unique proposal that could change all that. New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky nearly lost his daughter, Willie, at 4…

A nurse was out of a job on Wednesday, after she was under criminal investigation, accused of stealing a patient’s identity and using it to obtain narcotics. Stacy Whisner was fired from the Stoneridge Clinic in Dublin, a facility associated with the Ohio State University’s James Cancer Clinic, 10TV’s Lindsey Seavert reported. Police said Whisner,…

Lisa Flam reports: Oklahoma has two new abortion laws today, one said to be among the toughest in the nation because it requires a woman to have an ultrasound — with the monitor in her view — and to hear a detailed description of the fetus before having an abortion. The other law forbids women…