The New Deal and Recovery, Part 5: The Banking Crisis
George SelginToday, when we speak of ways to fight recessions, two options inevitably take pride of place: expansionary Fed policy (meaning lower interest rates or more asset purchases or both) and expansionary fiscal policy (more government spending or lower taxes or both).But if you ' ve been keeping up withthis series, you ' ll know that, although the U.S. economy rebounded between March 1933 and early 1937, neither expansionaryfiscal policy norFed actions of the sort we count on today deserve much credit for that rebound. Instead, the Treasury and the Fed played only bit parts, while the spotlight shone on FDR and his ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 20, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The 2020 Pandemic Election
The 2020 US election will be vicious, with a nasty pandemonium following a nasty pandemic.
By SAURABH JHA, MD
When the COVID-19 pandemic is dissected in the 2020 presidential election debates, Donald Trump will be at a disadvantage. The coronavirus has killed over 100,000 Americans and maimed thousands more. The caveat is that deaths per capita, rather than total deaths, better measure national failure, and by that metric the US fares better than Belgium, Italy and the United Kingdom. New York City owns a disproportionate share of the deaths, but this hyperconnected megapolis is an outlier whose misfortunes ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Politics Saurabh Jha Source Type: blogs
The Jones Act at 100: Time to Make This Protectionist Law History
Colin Grabow andInu ManakTheJones Act turned 100 years old last week. While numerous lawmakers rushed to pay homage to it, we’ve opted, as trade policy analysts, for a different approach: the release of an edited volume,The Case against the Jones Act,which delves into the costs of the law and the founding myths and false narratives its supporters have used to perpetuate it. One of these myths has to do with the Jones Act ’s very origins. As commonly told, the law dates back to the aftermath of the First World War and a desire to shore up the U.S. commercial fleet. But that is, at best, an incomplete picture. The Jo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 11, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow, Inu Manak Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 593
This week ' s case is from Idzi Potters and theInstitute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp. Warning - it ' s a tough one! The patient is a young woman with recent travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While there, she worked with primates, and developed a short episode of fever, rash and diarrhea. Upon return to Belgium, a check-up was done, including a stool parasite exam. Apart fromGiardia duodenalis andTrichuris trichiura, the following structures were found (measuring about 50 to 55 µm in length). What is your differential diagnosis? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - June 1, 2020 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Take the time now to hear your patients ’ stories
I rounded recently on a 100-year-old veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. It was a terrible and costly battle fought in Belgium during the winter of 1945, the coldest and snowiest in memory at that time. The German army made a desperate last stand against an increasingly overwhelming US force. Hundreds of thousands of […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 30, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/andy-lamb" rel="tag" > Andy Lamb, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
SafeDistance Device to Help Return to Normal
As people are starting to return to work, school, and a more normal way of life during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, distancing will remain important for the foreseeable future. Companies, governments, and all kinds of organizations are developing, or already implementing, policies and procedures to help prevent new outbreaks of the disease.
Lopos, a startup with origins at imec and Ghent University in Belgium, is releasing a wearable device that helps to implement social distancing protocols.
The Lopos SafeDistance is a wearable that can accurately measure how far away it is from other SafeDistance devices in t...
Source: Medgadget - May 21, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Public Health Source Type: blogs
Two Supertypes of Coronavirus: “East Asian” and “European”
Andrei Illarionov andNatalya PivovarovaThe Los Alamos National Laboratory has posteda new study, as reported this weekby theWashington Post andtheLos Angeles Times, that finds that the strain of the novel coronavirus that emerged in Europe and has spread to much of the world is different than the strain of the virus at its origin in China. Those findingsare consistent with our research which we posted (in Russian) on April 15, 2020. Although we are not epidemiologists, we are posting our slightly updated analysis below in English in the interest of sharing what may be significant findings with a wider audience. We welcome ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 8, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Andrei Illarionov, Natalya Pivovarova 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
Case of the Week 586
It ' s now time for our monthly case by Idzi Potters and theInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp:The following structures were found in an unstained wet mount from a Belgian patient without any recent travel abroad. The patient reports intestinal discomfort for approximately 1 week. The structures measure approximately 20 micrometers in length.Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - April 7, 2020 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Print Your Own Hands-Free Door Opener to Contain Spread of Coronavirus
As hospitals around the world are getting swamped with patients due to the COVID-19 outbreak, there are issues with having clinical facilities becoming easy havens for the disease to spread. Something that technicians with access to 3D printers can now quickly do is turn standard door handles into the kind that can be opened with one’s arm rather than the hand.
Materialise, a company that normally offers advanced 3D printing services for medicine and other fields, has just released a 3D printing file to create plastic attachments for common kinds of door handles. Dozens of these can be made on a single 3D pri...
Source: Medgadget - March 19, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Materials Public Health Source Type: blogs
Defense of Louisiana ’s Coastline Undermined by Protectionist Maritime Laws
Colin GrabowLouisiana and the Netherlands are engaged in a battle against rising seas. To combat the encroaching ocean, both are dredging up vast amounts of sand to construct barriers along their respective coastlines. As a recent article in theTimes ‐Picayune/New Orleans Advocateshows, however, the Dutch are doing so at a fraction of the cost Louisiana is paying.Louisiana ’s biggest beach rebuild was on Whiskey Island, a slender, uninhabited island on the edge of Terrebonne Bay. Completed in 2018, the project spent $118 million dredging and spreading more than 15.8 million cubic yards of sand — enough to...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 11, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
The factor structure of cognitive functioning in cognitively healthy participants: A meta-analysis and meta-analysis of individual participant data. - PsycNET
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-07834-001The CHC model strikes again!!!CitationAgelink van Rentergem, J. A., de Vent, N. R., Schmand, B. A., Murre, J. M. J., Staaks, J. P. C.,& Huizenga, H. M. (2020). The factor structure of cognitive functioning in cognitively healthy participants: A meta-analysis and meta-analysis of individual participant data. Neuropsychology Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-019-09423-6AbstractAbstractMany neuropsychologists are of the opinion that the multitude of cognitive tests may be grouped into a much smaller number of cognitive domains. H...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - March 7, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
New Maritime Report Marked by Factual Errors and Dubious Claims
Colin GrabowThe Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments recently released a report on the U.S. maritime sector that hasgarneredconsiderablepraise from the Jones Act lobby. That ’s no surprise. EntitledStrengthening the U.S. Defense Maritime Industrial Base, the report explicitly calls for the Jones Act ’s retention. Overlooked amidst the plaudits, however, are factual errors and dubious assertions that call its endorsement of the law into question. This blog post will lay some of these out.Factual errorsThe report includes a number of factual errors. In this section, I note these incorrect cl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 28, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Onera Bioimpedance Patch to Detect Sleep Apnea
In this study, the potential of using the bio-impedance (bioZ) of the chest as a respiratory surrogate is analyzed. A novel portable device is presented, combined with a two-phase Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) deep learning algorithm for automated event detection. The setup is benchmarked using simultaneous recordings of the device and the traditional polysomnography in 25 patients. The results demonstrate that using only the bioZ, an area under the precision-recall curve of 46.9% can be achieved, which is on par with automatic scoring using a polysomnography respiration channel. The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy a...
Source: Medgadget - February 10, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology ENT Informatics Source Type: blogs
American Healthcare Prices -Simply Outrageous
When it comes to healthcare spending, the U.S. is without peer. Consider the 20 countries making up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (called the OECD by the cool kids). The organization includes countries like Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, and the Czech Republic. Oh also Finland, France, Germany…you get the idea. It also […]
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 29, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: peter Tags: Health Care health care cost Peter Ubel syndicated Source Type: blogs
