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Mark Your Calendar

February is awareness month for heart health, cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) and, more generally, cancer prevention, low vision, prenatal infection prevention, children's dental health, Marfan syndrome (a connective tissue disorder characterized by unusually long limbs and believed to have affected Abraham Lincoln) and Raynaud's disease, which causes decreased blood flow to fingers, toes and other areas of the body.

Feb. 29 is Rare Disease Day, especially notable this year since it's a leap day, only seen every four years or so.

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116 -- Number of people, in the millions, in the U.S. in 2023 who may have been the victim of one or more health data breaches

278 -- Percentage increase of large breaches involving ransomware between 2018 and 2022

 

Source: HHS Office of Civil Rights

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