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As a follow-up to a story covered here, the Associated Press has reported that Rep. Tony Shipley has withdrawn the bill.

New Brunswick’s long-awaited patient health protection legislation was tabled Friday. Health Minister Mike Murphy said the bill will make sure that New Brunswickers can control who sees their medical records. “Every New Brunswicker has a medical history,” he said. “That medical history might be thin or it might be thick. “We have to make sure…

Patients will be able to demand that their health records are deleted from the massive database being built by the NHS, privacy regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office has said. Previously, patients could only have details ‘masked’, not deleted. Read more on Out-Law.com.

  From the report (pdf): The Sentinel system is still in the early planning stages, with key decisions about development and milestones yet to be made. In planning for Sentinel, FDA has held outreach meetings with stakeholders, established a senior management team to solicit input from agency components; established a working group to share information…

In a case that is somewhat reminiscent of the case involving cemetery records in Nebraska, Jesse Leavenworth of The Hartford Courant reports that: A group of researchers says the state’s mental health agency is withholding information about a significant chapter in Connecticut history. The researchers, who are compiling a book on the state’s role in…

Denis Campbell of The Guardian reports: Record numbers of Britons who are suffering from terminal illnesses are queueing up for assisted suicide at the controversial Swiss clinic Dignitas, the Observer can reveal. Almost 800 have taken the first step to taking their lives by becoming members of Dignitas, and 34 men and women, who feel…