Lawmakers are questioning why the government waited almost a month to warn 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study that some of their medical records were in a stolen laptop computer. The laptop was stolen from the locked trunk of a researcher's car on Feb. 23, but the NIH didn't send letters notifying the patients until March 20. "The stunning failure to act ... raises troubling questions," said Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. Dingell chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which began an investigation Monday.
March 25th 2008