United States Department of Health and Human Services

HHS Proposes Clinical Trial Reform To Catch Chinese Biotech Sector

The United States is looking to catch up with China’s expanding biotechnology sector. On June 23, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new proposal to accelerate clinical trials...

Request for Information: Increasing Health Care Resiliency

Reimagining and Improving Student Education

Microsoft Omitted Key Details in DOD Security Filings on China-Related Program

The Department of Defense (DOD) cannot mitigate security flaws it cannot see — or those that are purposely hidden. On August 20, ProPublica reported that Microsoft failed to alert DOD that the company...

‘Activities Aligned to Hamas’: ICE Arrests Columbia Student Who Led Violent Anti-Israel Campus Protests in 2024

...

Countering Threats Posed by the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Security

Hospitals Suffer Because the Department of Health and Human Services Fails to Lead on Cybersecurity

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. has an urgent crisis to solve: the ransomware pandemic crippling American hospitals. The Biden administration spent years affirming the importance...

Biotech Battlefield

Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomics

Hacked to Death: The Urgent Need for Healthcare Cybersecurity Reform

Imagine you are rushed to the hospital, fighting for your life, only to have your treatment delayed because the staff cannot find your records. The reason? Hackers have crippled the hospital’s electronic...

Swift U.S. Response Needed to Contain Mpox Outbreak in Africa

The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on August 14 due to a surge in cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox,...

Healthcare Cybersecurity Needs a Check Up

We must invest in defending our critical infrastructures

When it comes to cybersecurity, the Biden administration is failing to put its money where its mouth is. Over the past month, the administration has released a flurry of well-constructed...

Ransomware Attack on Hospitals Highlights Need to Ensure Continuity of Patient Care

McLaren Health Care, one of Michigan’s largest hospital systems, is still recovering from a ransomware attack last week that caused outages in patient care services. This is yet another in a series of...

Massive Healthcare Data Breach Demonstrates Need to Implement Cybersecurity Best Practices 

The largest U.S. healthcare provider confirmed last week that a breach of its external data storage system exposed the personal information of at least 11 million patients. The largest data breach of a...

So Much for Reforming the World Health Organization

The Biden administration vowed it would change the body from within, but its proposals play into the hands of China.

The Biden administration’s investigation into COVID-19’s origins misses half of the problem

President Joe Biden’s admission that COVID-19 may have escaped from a Chinese virology lab marks a seminal moment in public debate about the pandemic’s origins. Once ridiculed as fantasy, the so-called...

Diplomatic Malpractice: Reforming the WHO After China’s COVID Cover-up

The Coronavirus Pandemic Exposes Fault Lines in the ‘Great Power Competition’

Does the U.S. continue to work within the framework of existing global institutions or abandon those it sees as problematic?

North Korea Turns to Cyber Disinformation Attacks Amid Global Coronavirus Outbreak

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) released a new report on March 26 revealing North Korean hackers’ persistent cyberattacks on news outlets to spread disinformation. This new development in North...