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How Facebook and Twitter could be the next disruptive force in clinical trials

Social-media interactions can empower those living with disease, and their families, to make informed choices about their health care and clinical trials. "Watching them go through that process of clinical trials and the difficulties — I guess maybe that's where we learned about clinical trials," she says. "Industry-wide, everybody recognizes this as a huge problem," says James Nolan, chief executive at InClinica, a contract-research organization in Wayne, Pennsylvania, that conducts clinical trials. So drug firms and medical centres have enlisted the aid of patient advisory boards to evaluate clinical trials. Getz says that as many as one-third of procedures — such as blood tests or biopsies — performed during clinical trials are not crucial to the applications for drug approval.

How Facebook and Twitter could be the next disruptive force in clinical trials

Those awesome items on Facebook Marketplace could be stolen, metro police warn

furthermore Police say thieves are stealing goods and using social media like Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram to sell them. Thieves then post their stolen goods on Facebook Marketplace for sale. But some innocent social media shoppers could also unknowingly buy stolen goods. Police warn that you should watch out for stolen items when you shop on social media sites like Facebook Marketplace. Or call 911 or the Oak Park Mall security number at 913-208-3036.

Another Facebook vulnerability could have exposed information about users and their friends

The security company Imperva has released new details on a Facebook vulnerability that could have exposed user data. The bug allowed websites to obtain private information about Facebook users and their friends through unauthorized access to a company API, playing off a specific behavior in the Chrome browser. For the attack to work, a Facebook user must visit a malicious website with Chrome, and then click anywhere on the site while logged into Facebook. In essence, the vulnerability exposed the interests of a user and their friends even if privacy settings were set so interests were only visible to a user's friends. Reached by The Verge, Facebook emphasized that the underlying vulnerability could affect other websites as well.

Another Facebook vulnerability could have exposed information about users and their friends




How Facebook and Twitter could be the next disruptive force in clinical trials

Social-media interactions can empower those living with disease, and their families, to make informed choices about their health care and clinical trials. "Watching them go through that process of clinical trials and the difficulties — I guess maybe that's where we learned about clinical trials," she says. "Industry-wide, everybody recognizes this as a huge problem," says James Nolan, chief executive at InClinica, a contract-research organization in Wayne, Pennsylvania, that conducts clinical trials. So drug firms and medical centres have enlisted the aid of patient advisory boards to evaluate clinical trials. Getz says that as many as one-third of procedures — such as blood tests or biopsies — performed during clinical trials are not crucial to the applications for drug approval.

How Facebook and Twitter could be the next disruptive force in clinical trials

Another Facebook vulnerability could have exposed information about users and their friends

as declared in Police say thieves are stealing goods and using social media like Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram to sell them. Thieves then post their stolen goods on Facebook Marketplace for sale. But some innocent social media shoppers could also unknowingly buy stolen goods. Police warn that you should watch out for stolen items when you shop on social media sites like Facebook Marketplace. Or call 911 or the Oak Park Mall security number at 913-208-3036.

Those awesome items on Facebook Marketplace could be stolen, metro police warn

The security company Imperva has released new details on a Facebook vulnerability that could have exposed user data. The bug allowed websites to obtain private information about Facebook users and their friends through unauthorized access to a company API, playing off a specific behavior in the Chrome browser. For the attack to work, a Facebook user must visit a malicious website with Chrome, and then click anywhere on the site while logged into Facebook. In essence, the vulnerability exposed the interests of a user and their friends even if privacy settings were set so interests were only visible to a user's friends. Reached by The Verge, Facebook emphasized that the underlying vulnerability could affect other websites as well.

Another Facebook vulnerability could have exposed information about users and their friends




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