US researchers losing battle to hide their data from prying eyes

GhostDB: Hiding Data from Prying Eyes

Imagine that you have been entrusted with private data, such as corporate product information, sensitive government information, or symptom and treatment information about hospital patients. You may want to issue queries whose result will combine private and public data, but private data must not be revealed, say, to the prying eyes of some insurance fraudster. GhostDB is an architecture and sy...

Are we losing the TB battle?

Internal network dynamics prolong a losing battle

Fights-to-the-death occur in many natural, medical and commercial settings. Standard mass action theory and conventional wisdom imply that the minority (i.e. smaller) group’s survival time decreases as its relative initial size decreases, in the absence of replenishment. Here we show that the opposite actually happens, if the minority group features internal network dynamics. Our analytic theor...

Is INH waging a lonely losing battle.

The Updated National Guidelines for Pediatric Tuberculosis in India, 2012, [1] has rightly emphasized, at length, the need for becoming more aggressive in our treatment of pediatric tuberculosis (dropping out 3 drugs from all regimens i.e. HRZ). The area of chemoprophylaxis, however, has been left untouched [except for raising the dose of INH to 10 mg/kg/day). We all know and accept that resist...

Obesity Research: Winning the Battle, Losing the War

Diabetes and obesity have increased dramatically in the United States during the past quarter century and are having a profound, negative impact on morbidity, mortality, quality of life, and cost of medical care. New research confirms that diabetes can be prevented or delayed through aggressive weight management. After years of discouraging reports on the failure of weight management programs t...