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Submission + - Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning A Lab (engadget.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08, 2016 @04:26AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Wall Street Journal reports US regulators have devised to ban the owners and operators of Theranos from running a lab for two years. That includes CEO & founder Elizabeth Holmes, as confirmed by a press release issued tonight. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) revoked the lab's Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certificate and imposed a civil money penalty for an unspecified amount. The ban does not take effect for 60 days, however Theranos says it will not do any testing at the Newark, CA lab CMS investigated, and instead will serve customers from its lab in Arizona.

Comment Cloud environments and data caps (Score 1) 645

by raja2000 on Thursday May 12, 2011 @11:03AM (#36107144) Attached to: Sergey Brin: Windows Is "Torturing Users"

No one seems to be talking about data caps that most ISP's are introducing. If all the data is in the cloud all the time then I am not sure what impact it would have on the data caps.

Feed U.S./Canadian Dispute over Border Crossing Procedures (schneier.com)

From feed by bsfeed on Sunday May 06, 2007 @02:12PM

Interesting: The main sticking point was Homeland's unwillingness to accept Canada's legal problem with having U.S. authorities take fingerprints of people who approach the border but decide not to cross. Canadian law doesn't permit fingerprinting unless someone volunteers or has...

Submission + - US to pass bill outlawing genetic discrimination

Submitted by

fatduck

on Sunday May 06, 2007 @12:42PM

fatduck writes: "NewScientist reports that, "On 25 April, the House of Representatives voted 420 to 3 to pass the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). The Senate is expected to endorse the act within a few weeks, which is also supported by President Bush." "There is no gene for the human spirit.""

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