How Turkey Lost Its Freedom — and Even Its Bread
Mustafa AkyolTheHuman Freedom Index 2021 just came out. It shows a concerning decline in freedom in countries where 83 percent of the global population lives. Among these, there are five countries whose trajectories in the past ten years are the worst of all. These are Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bahrain, and my home country, Turkey.The graph above, adapted from theHuman Freedom Index, puts Turkey ’s tragic decline visually: in 2009, Turkey ranked 83rd on the index. In ten years, it declined to 139th place. It is a remarkably downhill slide.How did this happen? How did Turkey lose its freedom so dramatically?The ans...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 17, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Mustafa Akyol Source Type: blogs
Sid Watkins
Romain Grosjean ' s awful crash at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, towards the end of the Formula 1 season, when he was attended within seconds by Alan van der Merwe and Ian Roberts in the medical car, and evacuated to hospital by helicopter, made me look up Dr Sid Watkins, an earlier medical officer in Formula 1. Sid Watkins was a neurosurgeon, a published researcher who also compiled two brain atlases. He was always interested in motor racing and had already had a medical role at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, and at races near where he had worked in the United States, when he was appointed by ...
Source: Browsing - December 28, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: Formula One motor racing Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: What Intervention Policies Are Most Effective? A Brief Report Using Data from Government of Bahrain
Alireza Boloori (Michigan State University); Soroush Saghafian (Harvard University), COVID-19: What Intervention Policies Are Most Effective? A Brief Report Using Data from Government of Bahrain, HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-011 (2020): To shed light on intervention policies that can be... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 17, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Your Data Privacy During a Pandemic
Picture a scenario where citizens willingly have their every move tracked via their smartphones; their every bank transaction monitored; and have themselves tracked from CCTV footage. Pretty Orwellian, right? Dubious tracking from smartphones and wearables by unscrupulous third parties is what we explored in our article on the dark side of health trackers.
However, this scenario is a reality in countries from East to West around the globe. Several countries have implemented digital surveillance to track the spread of the novel coronavirus. Others are contemplating this solution, while many believe it will linger after l...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 23, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones data privacy cybersecurity tracking coronavirus covid19 contact tracing Source Type: blogs
Trump ’s Needlessly Dangerous Saudi Arabia Deployment
Ted Galen CarpenterThe Trump administration has approved the deployment to Saudi Arabia of Air Force F-15s, new air defense systems, and other military hardware, along with U.S. troops to operate and maintain those weapons systems.These new measures the Pentagon announced on October 11 will bring the total U.S. troop deployment to the kingdom to 3,000 since a mid-September attack on Saudi oil facilities.Speaking to reporters after the announcement,Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that it is now “clear that Iranians are responsible” for the attacks and warned that Washington has additional units “on alert” that ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 14, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Development with No Political Framework Is a Car Without an Engine
Differing historical narratives, asymmetry of power, security concerns, upheaval in the larger region, poverty, and religious differences all make Israel-Palestine one of the world ' s most intractable conflicts. An early-summer meeting in Bahrain served as a sales session of sorts for the economic half of the Trump administration ' s proposal to solve it. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 8, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: C. Ross Anthony; Charles P. Ries Source Type: blogs
Trump ’s “Cakewalk” Fantasy about an Iran War
Although President Trump apparently called off a planned airstrike on Iran at the last minute in late June, he subsequently warned Iranian leaders that the military option was still very much on the table. He emphasized that if the United States used force against Iran, Washington would not put boots on the ground but would wage the conflict entirely with America ’s vast air power. Trump exhibited no doubt about the outcome, asserting that such a war “wouldn ’t last very long, ” and that it would mean the “obliteration” of Iran.His boast was eerily reminiscent of the statement that Kenneth Adelman, a former ass...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 3, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
There Is A Prize For The Most Convincing Explanation For This Report!
This appeared last week:Revealed: one in five peers advise private business while serving in parliament Analysis finds 169 peers working as advisers and 15 paid by foreign governmentsDavid Pegg and Pamela DuncanSat 1 Jun 2019 02.00 AEST Last modified on Sat 1 Jun 2019 06.50 AEST One in five members of the House of Lords are working as consultants or advisers to private businesses at the same time as serving in parliament, the Guardian can reveal.An analysis of the Register of Lords ’ Interests shows 169 peers reported working as advisers earlier this year, with more than a dozen registering that they were also paid by fo...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 5, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
What Does the Helium Shortage Mean for MRI?
Not only is Party City shutting down 45 stores in part because of the worldwide helium deficit, but medical imaging centers are also vulnerable to the short supply.The chemical element is a byproduct of natural gas production and the second-most common element in the universe. At one point the United States was the world ’s top helium producer, but got wrapped up in financial troubles and resorted to selling off its reserves in the late 1990s. Yet as of recently, Qatar, the world’s main producer of helium and claims 75 percentof global supply, was forced to stop exporting the gas after a handful of Middle Eastern coun...
Source: radRounds - May 17, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Meet the Academic Medicine Editorial Board: What experience has had the biggest impact on your career?
We asked the members of the Academic Medicine editorial board about the experience that has had the biggest impact on their career. This is what they said.
Colin P. West, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic
I don’t know that I can pick out one single experience. Instead, I think the general principle that has served me well is to ensure that every project I work on offers intentional value: I am passionate about it directly, or it is a conduit to other projects I care about deeply, or I will gain a new skill set by participating.
John P. Sánchez, MD, MPH, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
The one experience that had the biggest impac...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - January 22, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Editorial Board Q & A Featured CPD curriculum international medical education MedEdPORTAL mentoring narrative medicine professional development research teaching Source Type: blogs
DEFENSE DOWNLOAD: Week of 11/15
Welcome to the Defense Download! This new round-up is intended to highlight what we at the Cato Institute are keeping tabs on in the world of defense politics every week. The three-to-five trending stories will vary depending on the news cycle, what policymakers are talking about, and will pull from all sides of the political spectrum. If you would like to recieve more f requent updates on what I’m reading, writing, and listening to—you can follow me on Twitter via @CDDorminey. Today, Senator Rand Paul will take the floor to call for a vote on blocking arms sales to Bahrain —one of the countries waging war on...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 15, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Caroline Dorminey Source Type: blogs
Let's Face It: US Policy in the Middle East Has Failed
The ongoing controversy surrounding the murder of a dissident Saudi journalist and Saudi Arabia ’s brutal bombing campaign of a largely defenseless neighboring Yemen, which has come with an enormous human toll, have elicited increased scrutiny over the U.S.-Saudi alliance. The White House remains supportive of Riyadh, both diplomatically and with continued military aid. Republicans have offe red mildly critical words for the Saudi regime, while an increasing number of Democrats arecalling for a fundamental reassessment of the U.S.-Saudi relationship.Such a reassessment is long overdue. Washington ’s partnership with Ri...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 19, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
Update: How to Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime
Summary: the Corruption of Health Care Leadership as a Major Cause of Health Care DysfunctionAs we wrote in August, 2017, Transparency International (TI) defines corruption asAbuse of entrusted power for private gainIn 2006,TI published a report on health care corruption, which asserted that corruption is widespread throughout the world, serious, and causes severe harm to patients and society.the scale of corruption is vast in both rich and poor countries.Also,Corruption might mean the difference between life and death for those in need of urgent care. It is invariably the poor in society who are affected most by corruptio...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 17, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect conflicts of interest Donald Trump health care corruption regulatory capture Source Type: blogs
How Autocracies Could Misuse Digital Health Innovations
How long do you think it will take for authoritarian governments, dictatorships or tyrannies until they realize the vast potential in digital health technologies and until they learn how to harness their powers? Twenty years? Ten years? We have to warn you, the era of 24/7 surveillance and intrusion into the innermost secrets of human life is even closer than that. Watch out! Dystopic worst case scenario-alert!
Digital technologies are double-edged swords: they promised social change…
On 17 December 2010, a Tunisian vegetable vendor set up his cart on the street in Sidi Bouzid to sell goods that he obtained the day befor...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine Security & Privacy AR artificial intelligence big data biotechnology black mirror dystopia genes genetics genomics Health health sensors Healthcare insurance MR Personalized medicine scifi Source Type: blogs