Image copyright Johnson and Johnson Image caption The Animas OneTouch Ping pump is sold in the US and Canada

Pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson has warned that one of its insulin pumps for diabetics is at risk of being hacked, causing an overdose.

The firm said the vulnerability concerned its OneTouch Ping pump which is only sold in the US and Canada.

However, it told the BBC there had been no reported attacks and the risk was "extremely low".

"It would require technical expertise, sophisticated equipment and proximity to the pump," it said.

The disclosure was made in a letter to patients on 27 September, the firm said.

The Animas OneTouch Ping pump, which was launched in 2008, enables diabetics to dose themselves with insulin using a Wi-Fi remote control. This removes the hassle of directly accessing the device, which can be worn under the patient's clothes.

Johnson & Johnson said the pump was not connected to the internet or to any external network.

But Jay Radcliffe - a diabetic and researcher with cyber security firm Rapid7 - said he had discovered it could still be hacked from a distance of 25 feet.

He found communications between the pump and its radio frequency remote could be hijacked - in theory allowing a hacker to administer unauthorised injections.

'Low risk'

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said it had confirmed Mr Radcliffe's findings but that the pump remained "safe and reliable".

It said worried patients could take precautions, such as not using the pump's remote and programming the device to limit its maximum dose.

There are growing concerns over the risk of medical device hacks.

In February, cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab revealed it had hacked into a hospital's IT infrastructure - with its permission - and was able to access an MRI device.

And the US Food & Drug Administration is said to be preparing formal guidance for manufacturers on how to respond to reports of cyber attacks.

The agency has previously urged medical firms to work with cyber security experts to mitigate risks - however it says it knows of no cases where criminals have hacked a device to cause harm.</s>Cal Poly will host Los Angeles-based standup comedian Anjelah Johnson on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at the Performing Arts Center (PAC).

Johnson has two Netflix standup specials and had a stint as a cast member on FOX’s MADtv.

According to Director of Cal Poly Arts Steven Lerian, the success of Johnson’s last performance on Cal Poly’s campus in early 2013 and her appeal to all ages were incentives to bring her back.

“I think part of her charm is that it’s a very clean show as opposed to lots of comedy these days that gets down in the dirt pretty far,” Lerian said. “It’s appropriate for all ages which is not something you see very often with comedians; she’s able to be hilarious and to not have to revert to jokes that might not be appropriate for network TV, for example.”

A defining element of Johnson’s standup act is a character she developed called “Bon Qui Qui,” which appeared on MADtv, according to Lerian. The most popular “Bon Qui Qui” video on Youtube currently has 71,000,000 views. In 2015, Johnson released an album under the moniker titled Gold Plated Dreams.

Much of Johnson’s fame also comes as a result of a standup routine that went viral in 2007, titled “Nail Salon.”

The PAC’s doors open at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday night, and curtain time is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the Cal Poly ticket office website.</s>Eileen Johnson said her brother Ron had strong creativity in teasing her. Between hiding under the bed and grabbing her feet or staring at her forehead while she yelled at him, he always thought outside the box.

Ron Johnson’s family and friends who gathered in his honor Oct. 2, at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium’s Keating Marine Education Center might say his creativity was not limited to his role as big brother, though that’s where it all began.

“It was though he knew he had much to accomplish,” Eileen Johnson said. “He knew he had places to go and things to do, and he did knot know where yet. He didn’t have an inkling why or what was going to happen next, but that energy was bursting forward within him.”

Johnson died June 27 at the age of 84. He was a Goodyear die-maker, business man, family man, photographer, mayor, Longboat Key town commissioner, volunteer and friend. To residents of Longboat, he was best known as a town official, advocate for Mote and the Longboat Key Center for the Arts and a key figure in the construction of the Ringling Bridge.

At the memorial, Lt. General Howard G. Crowell presented Johnson’s wife, Jinny, with a resolution the Mote Board of Trustees signed on Sept. 1. The resolution was signed unanimously to show the appreciation for Johnson’s dedication to the mission of advancing the science of sea through Mote. Various other friends shared their favorite memories of Johnson as well. Mote President and CEO Dr. Michael Crosby sent a recorded speech because he could not attend, and in it, he noted that Johnson was always ready to roll up his sleeves and volunteer.

“When we think of Ron’s life, he lived a long and full life, a very very full life,” Crosby said. “But his passing has left a void — a void for Jinny, his family, for all of us here in the community, but I think it’s important that we remember at his celebration of life all the joy he brought to us and touched our lives for the positive.”

Crosby’s statement garnered nods of agreement from the crowd. Dan Idzik, past president of the Longboat Key for the Center of the Arts, said the best way to honor Johnson would be to follow in his footsteps. Susan Phillips, assistant to the town manager and president of the Garden Club, said the world would be a better place if people acted like Johnson.

“He had a habit of rising to the top of absolutely everything he joined, and there is evidence everywhere as we can see,” Eileen Johnson said. “It was just a natural thing for him to do.”

Johnson spent so much of his time working, volunteering and making memories on Longboat that it was only fitting that his memorial be held overlooking its horizon.

“It was just so heartwarming, and the tribute to Ron would have made him so happy,” Jinny Johnson said.</s>Over a time span of the last 13 years, I have written this weekly column titled “This N That.” During that time I have written several columns on the life and times of various United States presidents. Recently, I realized I have written little about the wives of those presidents. In this column I want to write about the wife of one of my favorite presidents: President Andrew Johnson. His wife was Eliza McCardle who had a great deal of influence on him in his early life. I suppose President Johnson is my favorite because he became president under a great deal of pressure and served his country in a time of great upheaval, politically and societal. Moreover, his hometown Greeneville, Tennessee is home to the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site. The site has a lot of interesting displays concerning his life and presidency, including his tailor shop and home.

 Johnson married Eliza McCardle on May 17, 1827 (some sources give it as May 5, 1827). She was 16.He was 17. She was a daughter of John and Sarah Phillips. John was a shoemaker. While her husband had no formal schooling, she is said to have had some basic education and used her knowledge to help her husband achieve some proficiency in writing and arithmetic, thereby paving the way to his success.

 While on his upward political climb, Eliza took care of the home front in Greeneville, raising their five children. Their children were Charles, Robert, Andrew Jr., Martha and Mary. Eliza became First Lady at the age of 54. Due to Eliza’s illness, President Johnson asked Martha, his oldest daughter, to assume social duties in the White House. And she did so quite well.

 Eliza was born on October 4, 1810 in Leesburg, Tennessee. She died January 15, 1876 in Greene County, Tennessee and is buried in Greeneville, Tennessee. President Johnson was impeached for no good reason (Congress tried to usurp the power of the presidency which would have disrupted the traditional view of the three branches of government as independent from the other.) He was acquitted of the charge. Eliza felt that he would be acquitted and never lost faith in him during that trying time.

 After her husband’s term ended, She went back to their home in Greeneville, she saw him elected to the Senate in 1875. She lived six months following her husband’s death.</s>Washington (CNN) Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson, in an interview published Wednesday, discussed the massive loss of human life in Syria and equated killings from the government of Bashar al-Assad and those caused by the United States.

Johnson, pressed in his interview with The New York Times , on whether he viewed deaths caused deliberately by Assad's forces as the same as those caused by the United States, Johnson indicated he did.

"Well, no, of course not. We're so much better than all that," Johnson said with sarcasm, according to the report. "We're so much better when in Afghanistan, we bomb the hospital and 60 people are killed in the hospital."

Johnson was referring to a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders that the United States admitted it bombed in 2015. The Pentagon said after a military investigation that the action was not a war crime, although it did not allow an independent, international investigation into the killings.

Johnson has made skepticism of foreign interventions a mainstay of his campaign, ensuring to highlight it in almost every interview he does. But he has had several embarrassing incidents that demonstrated his shortcomings in that area.

At the beginning of September, Johnson failed to recognize Aleppo, a city at the heart of the Syrian civil war. The embarrassing moment underscored Johnson's lack of foreign policy chops, and he compounded the mistake in a late September interview when he struggled to name a foreign leader he respected, conceding he was having another "Aleppo moment."

Johnson also specifically slammed Democrat Hillary Clinton, calling her a foreign policy hawk who contributed to bloodshed overseas.

"Because Hillary Clinton can dot the i's and cross the t's on geographic leaders, of the names of foreign leaders the underlying fact that hundreds of thousands of people have died in Syria goes by the wayside," Johnson said.

The Libertarian nominee's criticism of Clinton appears at odds with his running mate, Bill Weld, who told CNN Wednesday he would focus his criticism on Republican Donald Trump.

"I guess my role will be Hillary, and his role will be Donald Trump," Johnson said.</s>Just days after Mayville's David Johnson heckled his way to becoming an internet sensation at the Ryder Cup in Chaska, Minn., he found himself on the late-night talk show stage in New York City.

Johnson was a guest Monday night on "Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

Dressed in his same Ryder Cup outfit and up to his same old bag of heckling tricks, Johnson was among the crowd taking in the "Late Show" when he was heard (intentionally) taunting Colbert from afar.

Colbert replied by saying, "jokes about Donald Trump are a lot harder than making a putt."
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To which Johnson quickly replied, "I can do both."

"Oh, you think you can do both?" Colbert replied.
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Colbert then invited Johnson on to the set where a make-shift Donald Trump-themed putting green was brought out. Johnson's task? To putt the ball into Trump's mouth.

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Colbert wouldn't go as far as putting $100 on the line for this putt, which was much less difficult, but he did put some of his own money on the line.

"Let's make this more interesting," Colbert said. "My friend, Mr. Lincoln says good luck."

Colbert then promptly laid the $5 bill next to the golf ball just as Rose did at the Ryder Cup.

With $5 on the line and the bright lights of late-night television shining on Johnson, he once again drilled the putt.

Who knew a little heckling could earn you internet fame and an appearance on the "Late Show"? And even more importantly, $105.</s> It appears Arkansas will be without its starting fullback for Saturday's game against No. 1 Alabama.

Hayden Johnson is not on the Razorbacks' two-deep depth chart for the game after he was arrested Sunday and charged with public intoxication and minor in possession of alcohol. Johnson, a 19-year-old freshman, has started all five games this season.

Kendrick Jackson, who was Arkansas' starting fullback last season, is listed as starter on the depth chart. Tight end Austin Cantrell is listed as the backup at the position.

Arkansas coach Bret Bielema is expected to comment on Johnson's arrest for the first time during his weekly news conference today at noon. The Razorbacks have made no official announcement on whether Johnson will be suspended.

According to a preliminary arrest report, Johnson was arrested at 1:42 a.m. Sunday after police were called for a welfare check. According to a caller, Johnson was stumbling and nearly fell off the stage at the Greek Theater on the University of Arkansas campus.

The arresting officer reported he found Johnson laying down and not moving when he arrived on the scene. The officer noted Johnson was unable to stand and nearly fell over when he sat up.
Pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson warns that one of its Wi-Fi enabled insulin pumps for diabetics (OneTouch Ping pump) is at risk of being hacked, causing an overdose.