In Biden ’s Steel Tariff Deal with Europe, Trump’s Trade Policy Lives On
Inu Manak andScott LincicomeThis weekend, the White House announced anarrangement with the European Union (EU) to suspend longstanding tensions over U.S. “national security” tariffs on steel and aluminum imports implemented in 2018. Many news outlets have described the agreement as a significant change in course for U.S. trade policy – a “roll back” of President Trump’s tariffs and shift away from a policy of bellicose bilateralism toward s one more supportive of trade and U.S. allies. Look a little more closely, however, and we see that the deal merely replaces the tariffs with a different, more opaque and dis...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Inu Manak, Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Young People Around The World Report High Levels Of Climate Anxiety
By Emma L. Barratt
In the past few years, the effects of climate change have become undeniably apparent. In the last two years alone, headlines have been full of climate disasters — from forest fire smoke turning San Francisco’s sky luminous red, to torrential flooding in Germany and China.
In the face of events like this, anxiety and fear about climate change is undoubtedly increasing. Far from being indicative of mental illness, climate anxiety (also known as eco-anxiety or climate distress) more neatly fits under the banner of “practical anxiety”: fear that motivates change to help us respond to threa...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: environmental Mental health Source Type: blogs
A Three ‐Pronged Blunder, or, What Money is, and What it Isn’t
George Selgin" The fateful errors of popular monetary doctrines which have led astray the monetary policies of almost all governments would hardly have come into existence if many economists had not themselves committed blunders in dealing with monetary issues and did not stubbornly cling to them. "—Ludwig von Mises,Human Action.I was chatting on the phone last week with Peter Coy, who was working on an article about money forThe New York Times Magazine, when he mentioned the old, three-pronged textbook definition of money: you know, the one that says money is a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 27, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Some Key EASD News for T1D
This week, the European rival to the ADA Scientific Sessions known as EASD (which stands for the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) held its annual meeting, which was the organization ' s 57th Annual Meeting and it took place virtually (much like the ADA Scientific Sessions did this year) due to COVID-19. EASD was held from September 27, 2021 to October 1, 2021. In recent years, neither the ADA Scientific Sessions not the EASD Meetings have yielded many surprise findings or previously unknown product launches.My short summary is that Novo Nordisk is finally getting on the " smart pen " cap bandwagon, while riv...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 1, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2021 Bigfoot Unity Companion Medical EASD FTC insulin prices Lilly Medtronic diabetes Novo Nordisk rebate reform Smart Pen Caps Smart Pens Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 654
This week ' s case is of a middle-aged man with a painful lesion on the dorsum of his foot. He recently returned from Brazil, during which he swam in the ocean, walked barefoot on the beach, and ate local foods. An excisional biopsy was performed and submitted to the clinical microbiology lab to rule out a possible parasite. The specimen received was an excised ellipse of skin on which there was a central defect measuring ~ 5 mm in diameter:There was also a separate section of subcutaneous tissue, which contained numerous tan-white ovoid objects:Here is a close-up of these objects:To confirm our suspected diagnosis, ...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - September 20, 2021 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s Visa Ban for Africans
David J. BierThe Biden administrationis planning to roll out a new policy in November that denies the right to travel or immigrate to the United States to anyone in the world who is unvaccinated. It will replace various nonsensical travel bans on Europeans, Chinese, Iranians, Brazilians, South Africans, and Indians, but a majority of the world (57 percent) has not received even a single shot of any of the vaccines, andonly 1.9 percent of people in low ‐income countries have received at least one dose. This includes pretty much the entire continent of Africa.Currently, everyone —vaccinated or not—traveling to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 20, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Eight Reasons For Ending Joe Biden ’s Travel Bans
Ryan Bourne and Brad SubramaniamBack in July, Ioutlined why Joe Biden ’s crude COVID-19 travel bans on non-Americans coming from Europe, India, and a few other countries no longer made any sense from a public health perspective.Talk in Washington at the time was of lifting these restrictions by September. Well, here we are, mid-way through that month and the restrictions are going strong. Officials and diplomats now seem to think October or even Thanksgiving are the earliest potential dates for their removal. Some ponder whether the political incentives might point towards inactionuntil the mid-terms...which would mean b...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne, Brad Subramaniam Source Type: blogs
More Laughing, More Thinking
By KIM BELLARD
There was a lot going on this week, as there always is, including the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the beginning of the NFL season, so you may have missed a big event: the announcement of the 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Awards (no, those are not typos).
What’s that you say — you don’t know the Ig Nobel Awards? These annual awards, organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, seek to:
…honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in scie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Research health research Ignobel Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Sleepless Nights For Evolutionary Biologists: A Greek Tragedy in The Making
By MIKE MAGEE
In my Jesuit high school, we were offered only one science course – chemistry. I took it in my Senior year and did pretty well. In contrast, I took four years of Latin, and three years of Greek, as part of the school’s Greek Honors tract.
Little did I know that Covid would create a pathologic convergence of sorts six decades later. Let’s review the Covid mutants:
Alpha – A variant first detected in Kent, UK with 50% more transmissibility than the original and has spread widely.
Beta – Originating in South Africa and the first to show a mutation that partially provided evas...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 30, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy evolutionary biology Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Alcohol, Smoking, Drugs: How Technology Can Help
The global statistics on substance use are disquieting. Globally, about 3 million people die every year from alcohol abuse. Tobacco kills up to half of its users – over 8 million people annually. And the UN’s 2021 World Drug Report estimated that around 275 million people used drugs worldwide in 2020, while over 36 million people suffered from drug use disorders.
Disruptive technologies could act only as additional tools for managing preventive or reactive treatment for both victims and physicians next to therapy. Alcohol content-measuring wristbands, smart lighters, nicotine tracking wearables, stop smoking apps, virt...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones Virtual Reality alcohol digital health Innovation smoking technology VR health Source Type: blogs
Peter Hotez is shrill
He beginneth:The initial United States government response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was marked by a frequent disconnect between government policies and the recommendations of scientific experts. A disinformation campaign from the Trump White House convinced many Americans that COVID-19 injuries and its death toll were exaggerated, leading many to ignore public health recommendations (1). Those who dismissed the severity of COVID-19 were more likely to shun face masks and ignore recommendations to socially distance from non –household members (2). Such individuals were more likely Republic...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
India, Brazil, and Public Health: Rule-Making through South-South Diffusion in the Intellectual Property Rights Regime?
This article analyzes the domestic drivers of regulatory state formation in... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 9, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
May 06, 2021 Edition. ----- The dual catastrophes in India and Brazil are clearly the biggest issue for the week and probably the month. Talk about seeing into the ‘Gates of Hell’! In the US the pandemic appears to be lessening while we see Pres. Biden doing what he can to assist the US recovery. The US economy appears to be in a major recovery phase and seems to be on the way back. In the UK as the vaccinations go forward we see restrictions lifting and t he economy and mood rising. In Australia we all await the Budget next week with the so-called ‘pre-Budget leaks’ coming thick and fast at the Liberal Government ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 6, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
76 Percent of Consulates Are Fully or Partly Closed Even after Tests and Vaccinations
David J. BierPresident Bidenended President Trump ’s immigrant visa ban and allowed his nonimmigrant visa ban to expire on April 1. While this is progress, the president is inexplicably keeping 76 percent of consulates fully or partially closed to routine visa processing, affecting about 71 percent of all visa applicants. The consulate closures a re acting as a de facto ban on legal immigration and travel, even thoughall travelers to the country must receive negative COVID-19 tests and more than 551 million doses of the vaccinehave already been administered outside the United States.In March 2020, the State Department c...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 9, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
