Are Prohibitionists About to Revisit the Law of Unintended Consequences –This Time With Tobacco?
Jeffrey A. SingerThe Wall Street Journalreports this afternoon that the Biden administration is considering ordering cigarette makers to lower nicotine to non ‐addictive levels in tobacco cigarettes. It is also considering banning menthol cigarettes, which are popular among young people and are particularlypopular with African American smokers. What could possibly go wrong?First, there is reason to fear that cigarette smokers will increase the number of cigarettes they consume tocompensate for the decrease in the desired effects of nicotine. Cutting the nicotine yield might have the unintended consequence of smok...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 19, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
How To Make Almost Anything – Exclusive Interview with Dr. Neil Gershenfeld, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
Dassault Systèmes’ annual Science in The Age of Experience Conference has become one of my favorite conferences. It is a platform for thoughtful and innovative discussion centered around how science affects so many aspects of our lives, as well as an intermingling of distinguished scientists, engineers, and other professionals from all walks of life and disciplines. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic this year the conference could only take place virtually. However, I was very fortunate to have had the opportunity to grab some time with one of the main keynote speakers thanks to the Dassault team who have partn...
Source: Medgadget - November 24, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Alcohol Use Disorder in the API Community
Asian-American Pacific Islanders, also known as the API Community, are one of the fastest-growing minority groups in America. Due to model minority stereotypes and a lack of empirical data, the API community has been thought to have lower than expected rates of substance use disorders and behavioral addictions. However, alcohol use disorder in the API Community still exists, and it presents its own set of unique issues compared to other ethnicities and communities. These can include specific risk factors and barriers to treatment that other groups do not face.
What is the API Community?
In 1968, the term “Asian Amer...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - January 24, 2020 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Alcohol Alcohol Rehab Information Alcoholism Detox Resources for Alcohol and Drugs/Opiates alcohol abuse alcohol dependence alcohol detox alcohol treatment alcohol treatment center alcohol treatment facility alcohol use Alcoholics An Source Type: blogs
The Meaning of Life (as a CIO)
As I approach 60 and reflect on over 40 years in the healthcare IT industry I sometimes feel that I ’ve transitioned from a rogue upstart to the leader of the status quo - always about to be disrupted. I’m no longer a trouble maker, I calm the troubled healthcare technology waters. If I ’m not careful, that could mean I’ll become a rate limiting step to radical change since I’ve been shaped by a lifetime of experience that started with punch cards, paper tape, and Fortran.The themes I ’ll write about twice a week in 2019 will be about exploring new technology around the world and in a Boston-based lab, th...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - January 8, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Get to Know Your Asian Indian Caucus
The AIC Caucus met this past November at the 2017 ASHA Convention in Los Angeles.
A monolingual speech-language pathologist recently reached out to ASHA’s Asian Indian Caucus (AIC) for a Tamil-speaking SLP to provide services for a 70-year-old elderly New Jersey man. The patient had expressive aphasia due to a recent stroke.
The AIC community—through its active listserve—immediately located a bilingual SLP who spoke English and Tamil. The SLP worked with the client’s local SLP to help him receive linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
In another instance, a 35-year-old female vocalist— referred to th...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Akila Rajappa Tags: Advocacy Audiology Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Cultural Diversity Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Get to Know Your Asian Indian Caucus
A monolingual speech-language pathologist recently reached out to ASHA’s Asian Indian Caucus (AIC) for a Tamil-speaking SLP to provide services for a 70-year-old elderly New Jersey man. The patient had expressive aphasia due to a recent stroke.
The AIC community—through its active listserve—immediately located a bilingual SLP who spoke English and Tamil. The SLP worked with the client’s local SLP to help him receive linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
In another instance, a 35-year-old female vocalist— referred to the AIC by a laryngologist in California—was seeking consultation from an SLP with...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Akila Rajappa Tags: Advocacy Audiology Slider Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Cultural Diversity Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Is death still frightening if you believe the self is an illusion? An astonishing study of Tibetan Buddhists
By Christian Jarrett
Imagining ourselves as no longer existing is, for most of us, terrifying. Buddhism may offer some reassurance. A central tenet of the religion is that all is impermanent and the self is actually an illusion. If there is no self, then why fear the end of the self?
To find out if the logic of the Buddhist perspective eliminates existential fear, Shaun Nichols at the University of Arizona and his colleagues surveyed hundreds of monastic Tibetan Buddhists (monks-in-training) in exile in India, as well as lay Tibetans, Tibetan Buddhists from Bhutan, Indian Hindus and American Christians and atheists.
To the...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Religion Source Type: blogs
WeCroak – The App Reminds You that You ’ re Going to Die
Sociologists and others have widely observed that we are not confronted with death nearly as much as our ancestors. Consequently, we are not as prepared to deal with it.
Now, you can contemplate your mortality with the WeCroak App. (HT London Times; The Atlantic)
Each day, this App will send you five invitations at randomized times to stop and think about death. It’s based on a Bhutanese folk saying that to be a happy person one must contemplate death five times daily. The WeCroak invitations come at random times and at any moment just like death. When they come, you can open the app for a quote about ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 19, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Travel Ban Is Based on Executive Whim, Not Objective Criteria
ConclusionFor countries on the list, and for any country wishing to remain off the list, it is vitally important that they understand which factors led to their inclusion or exclusion. If the United States is acting in good faith —seeking to change behavior as opposed to looking for an excuse to ban people—its criteria should be clearly explained and understood. The Iran nuclear deal, for example, hasvery precise requirements for Iran to avoid sanctions, down to the exact percentage of purity for its enriched uranium. This is very far from the case here.No consistent combination of factors or mitigating factors trigger...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Countering Chinese Coercion: The Case of Doklam
India and China have agreed to end a two-month border confrontation in the Doklam area claimed by both China and Bhutan. The immediate crisis seems to be over, but it offers insights into Chinese coercive strategies and how they may be thwarted. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 29, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Oriana Skylar Mastro; Arzan Tarapore Source Type: blogs
Medical Drones Will Thrive in Healthcare: A Safe Road to Health
Time is crucial in healing, no matter whether it’s about a natural disaster, heart attack or an organ transplant. In future medical emergencies, where urgent response will be necessary, drones will mean the fastest answer. They will fly the extra mile in delivering drugs, vaccines, blood or organs.
Drones are the future of delivery
According to my geek calendar, 2017 will be the year of the drone. These advanced versions of model airplanes or unmanned aerial vehicles are everywhere on the rise. According to the estimates of the Consumer Technology Association, 9.4 million units were projected to be sold in 2016 worl...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 12, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Mobile Health disaster relief drone drone delivery drones emergency GC1 Innovation technology Source Type: blogs
How a family physician gets to know her newly arrived refugee patients
The reason for Chandra’s office visit is to fill out form N-648. Chandra* is a fifty-nine-year-old Bhutanese refugee who has been my patient for the last nine months. Form N-648 is a six-page bureaucratic nightmare that is guaranteed to bring my clinic day to a grinding halt. My refugee patients bring me this form to certify that they are unable to take the test to become a U.S. citizen due to a severe, permanent neurologic disability.
My job is to document the extent of their disability and provide a detailed account of all of the factors that led up to it. The first question on the form reads: “Provide the clinical...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 21, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/xandra-rarden" rel="tag" > Xandra Rarden, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
Estimating the Contribution of Inactivity to Mortality Rates
One observation that has emerged in recent years from large epidemiological studies of health and longevity is that greater time spent sitting correlates with a higher risk of death and thus shorter life expectancy. This even seems to be independent of amount of exercise carried out while not sitting, though that aspect of the findings needs further reinforcement to rise to the level of evidence for the more general association between level of inactivity and mortality rates. As for most statistical human studies it is a challenge to move from correlation to understanding the directions and mechanisms of causation, though ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 22, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
“Dairy cows in a barn at Noblehurst Farms in western New...
"Dairy cows in a barn at Noblehurst Farms in western New York. The cows might be accustomed to snow squalls that swallow their land, but the wintry weather was a shock to some of Noblehurt's farmworkers: refugees who grew up working on farms some 7,500 miles away, in Bhutan. After more than 100,000 people of Nepalese ancestry were expelled from the southern part of the country by Bhutan's king in the 1990s, many spent years in refugee camps in Nepal. Now, 23 refugees have taken part in the Refugee Milker Training Program, a state-run initiative that teaches refugees in New York how to milk cows. @brendanbannonbrendanbannon...
Source: Kidney Notes - January 26, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
