Our OMI Toolbox Application is out now !
We are happy to announce that our " OMI Toolbox " application has just released and ready for your use. As myocardial infarction (MI) and many other diagnoses (for example left ventricular hypertrophy, prior MI etc.) can cause ST-segment elevation (STE) on electrocardiogram (ECG), the distinction between them may be hard and complicated. Furthermore, some ECGs may not meet the STEMI criteria but may still be diagnostic for acute coronary occlusion (ACO). For this purpose, only one set of diagnostic or differentiating criteria (STEMI criteria) is not enough, therefore a bunch of different tools are needed to make a&nbs...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 3, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Emre Aslanger Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 29, 2022 Edition-----The world seems to be lurching to be overwhelmed by issues around most of the major powers being in conflict for a real risk of a global recession affecting the UK, Europe, the US and much of Asia. We seem to be in some pretty difficult times right now …In OZ Parliament is now back after the death of the Queen and it will be interesting to see how things play out and what the Budget looks like in the face of an upcoming recession.-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/a-nation-shorn-of-britishness-is-still-waiting-for-the-republic-20220915-p5bi90A nation shorn of Britis...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
House 2022 National Defense Authorization Act Amendments on Arms Sales and Security Assistance
Jordan CohenThe House is set to vote on theNational Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2022. Prior to the structured Rule for the act, there were a total of fifty amendments that, if passed, would directly impact weapons sales legislation. Overall, these bills are divided into five broad themes: congressional power, increased monitoring and reporting surrounding human rights violators, weapons sales to the Middle East, weapons sales to counter Russia, and weapons sales to counter China.Readers should examine the2020 Arms Sales Risk Index for our latest data on risks associated with the weapons sales proc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Russia Tries to Restore Stability in the Caucasus
Ted Galen CarpenterThe announcement ofan agreement to end the recent bloody strife between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the status of Nagorno ‐Karabakh, the ethnic Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, should be greeted with cautious relief.Caution is warranted, since three previous cease fires that Russia brokered failed to endure.This time, though, Moscow ’s diplomatic efforts seem more insistent and effective.The new trilateral accord goes far beyond a mere cease fire and provides for revised political arrangements that reduce Nagorno-Karabakh ’s de facto autonomy.Moreover, another provisionauthorizes enforce...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Seeing Red Or Feeling Blue? People Around The World Make Similar Associations Between Colours And Emotions
By Emma Young
As an English-speaker, I might “see red” with anger, go “green” with envy or, on a bad day, “feel blue”. To me, it seems natural to associate certain colours with particular emotions — but is the same true for people around the world? And if so, do we all make the same emotion/colour matchings? These questions have been investigated in a new study, published in Psychological Science, which has produced some fascinating results.
An international team of 36 researchers, led by Domicele Jonauskaite at the University of Lausanne, analysed data gathered through the on...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Emotion Perception Source Type: blogs
NATO ’s Rogue Member Meddles in Another Conflict
Ted Galen CarpenterThis week,armed clashes erupted between the forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan, exacerbating already serious tensions in the Caucasus.The underlying reason for the latest incident is the long ‐standing struggle between the two countries for control of Ngorno‐Karabakh.That ethnically Armenian region is legally part of Azerbaijan, but Armenia assumes responsibility forguaranteeing the minority enclave ’s self‐declared political independence. The inherently unstable arrangement has led to several previous outbreaks of violence over the past three decades, but the latest incident seems especia...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 29, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
All for One, One For All
By MIKE MAGEE MD
Within the ever-widening array of Democratic contenders for the Presidency, the “Medicare-for-all” debate continues to simmer. It was only six weeks ago that Kamala Harris’s vocal support drew fire from not one, but two billionaire political rivals. Michael Bloomberg, looking for support in New Hampshire declared, “I think we could never afford that. We are talking about trillions of dollars… [that] would bankrupt us for a long time.” Fellow billionaire candidate Howard Schultz added, “That’s not correct. That’s not American.”
Remarkably, neither man made the connection between ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare Code Blue Medicare For All Mike Magee universal healthcare Source Type: blogs
A Change in Tactics
This article is not the first to suggest health care as a basic human right. It is recognized as such by developed nations across the globe, but we fail to recognize the tactical value in viewing healthcare as a right. In the US, health care is viewed as a transactional exercise. The economic foundation of health care in this country, the fee for service model, reinforces the concept of healthcare as transactional. When conceived in this way, arguments to improve healthcare are provided in the language of commerce. We argue about cost. We argue about quality. Efforts to improve care become arguments about what changes are ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy healthcare reform Robert Pretzlaff Source Type: blogs
Different Kinds Of Loneliness – Having Poor Quality Relationships Is Associated With Greater Distress Than Having Too Few
By Emma Young
Loneliness not only feels bad, experts have characterised it as a disease that increases the risk of a range of physical and psychological disorders. Some national prevalence estimates for loneliness are alarming. Although they can be as low as 4.4 per cent (in Azerbaijan), in other countries (such as Denmark) as many as 20 per cent of adults report being either moderately or severely lonely.
However, there’s no established way of identifying loneliness. Most diagnostic methods treat it as a one-dimensional construct: though it can vary in degrees, someone is either “lonely”, or they’re not....
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Mental health Social Source Type: blogs
New Immigrants Are More Culturally Different than They Used to Be
Native-born American concerns about immigration are primarily abouthow immigration will affect the culture of the country as a whole and, to a lesser extent, how the newcomers will affect the economy. One’s personal economic situation is not a major factor. It’s reasonable to assume that the degree of cultural difference between native-born Americans and new immigrants affects the degree of cultural concern. Thus, Americans would likely be less concerned over immigrants from Canada or Singapore than they would be over immigrants from Egypt or Azerbaijan. A large team of psychologists recently created an index o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Proving Your Wealth Is " Legitimate "
Thisstory from WAPO sent a chill down my spine:Until quite recently, Zamira Hajiyeva was living the high life, according to British authorities. She had a $15 million townhouse in London ’s tony Knightsbridge neighborhood, a golf club in the English countryside and a gold-plated shopping habit at Harrods.That was before a British court this year asked the 55-year-old from Azerbaijan an impertinent question: How did she afford those purchases?That query is at the heart of a bold British push to try to reverse what the government believes is a flood of foreign investment stemming from overseas corruption and criminality.In...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron Source Type: blogs
The World ’s Most – And Least – Miserable Countries in 2016
In what follows, I update my annual Misery Index calculations. A Misery Index was first constructed by economist Art Okun as a way to provide President Lyndon Johnson with a snapshot of the economy. The original Misery Index was just a simple sum of a nation ’s annual inflation rate and its unemployment rate. The Misery Index has been modified several times, first by Robert Barro of Harvard and then by myself. My modified Misery Index is the sum of the unemployment, inflation, and bank lending rates, minus the percentage change in real GDP per capita. A higher Misery Index score reflects higher levels of “misery,” ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 17, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Steve H. Hanke Source Type: blogs
Trump Towers or Trump Targets?
Donald Trump ’s election ushers in a new challenge for homeland security and counterterrorism both at home and abroad.Trump owns, has a stake in, or has lent his name to scores of properties all over the United States and the world. A terrorist could decide to target a Trump Tower in Stuttgart, a Trump hotel in South Korea, or a Trump golf resort in Dubai. A terrorist might even decide to target the famous carousel in Central Park, which Trump also owns. The attraction to the terrorist is obvious: Trump ’s hotels, resorts, and condominiums are vulnerable “soft targets,” without any of the serious security measures ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 23, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall Source Type: blogs
Muslims Rapidly Adopt U.S. Social Values
Concerns about Muslim assimilation made news again this week when Donald Trumperroneouslyclaimed that U.S. Muslim neighbors failed to report the San Bernardino shooters. But this persistent idea that U.S. Muslims are not assimilating could not be more inaccurate. In fact, U.S. Muslims —81 percent of whom are immigrants or children of immigrants —are the most socially liberal and religiously tolerant in the world and becoming more so with each passing year.U.S. Muslims Are Adopting Americans ’ Liberal Social and Religious ViewsMore than 80 percent of Muslim Americans are immigrants or the children of immigrants, accor...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Viktor Korchnoi: When Sports and Politics Merge, can Liberty Emerge?
Almost anything associated with the Cold War appears to be an anachronism these days. New college graduates never saw the hammer and sickle fly over the Kremlin, the deadly wall cut Berlin in half, and defectors leave home in search of that most precious human commodity, liberty.
Even for those of us with a few more years such memories are fading. Still, 1989 remains an extraordinary moment.
The Soviet Union lasted another two years, but it was only a shell of its former totalitarian self. No longer did its citizens have to hope for a trip to the West for an opportunity to leave everything behind.
But that’s not the worl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 16, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
