Do Negative Climate Impacts on Food Production Lead to Violence?
Introducing their important work, Buhaug et al. (2015) note that earlier research suggests there is “a correlational pattern between climate anomalies and violent conflict” due to “drought-induced agricultural shocks and adverse economic spillover effects as a key causal mechanism linking the two phenomena.” But is this really so?
Seeking an answer to this question, the four Norwegian researchers compared half a century of statistics on climate variability, food production and political violence across Sub-Saharan Africa, which effort, in their words, “offers the most precise and theoretically consistent empirica...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Craig D. Idso Source Type: blogs
Supporting NHS staff who are volunteers
NHS Employers -This guidance for NHS employers looks at the business case and benefits of volunteering, the impact it has on an employee’s terms and conditions and gives examples from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust who have both supported their staff to take part in volunteering activities.
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NHS Employers - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 19, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Brain Death Rejected: Expanding Legal Duties to Accommodate Religious Objections
I posted a revision of "Brain Death Rejected: Expanding Legal Duties to Accommodate Religious Objections."
This is chapter 22 in a forthcoming volume from Cambridge University Press: Law, Religion, and American Healthcare. This volume is a prod... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 18, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
The Patient Body: When are Religious Exemptions Religious?
Several months ago, I posted a draft chapter of a forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press, titled LAW, RELIGION, AND AMERICAN HEALTHCARE. My chapter is titled “Brain Death Rejected: Expanding Legal Duties to Accommodate Religious Exemptions.”
Ann Neumann, has just published some constructive criticism at The Revealer: A Review of Religion and Media. Neumann is a contributing editor at The Revealer and Guernica magazine and a visiting scholar at NYU's Center for Religion and Media. She is also author of The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America (Beacon Pres...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 25, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
The Fundamental Fallacy of Redistribution
The idea that government could redistribute income willy-nilly with impunity did not originate with Senator Bernie Sanders. On the contrary, it may have begun with two of the most famous 19th Century economists, David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill. Karl Marx, on the other side, found the idea preposterous, calling it “vulgar socialism.”
Mill wrote, “The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary about them… . It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution only. The things once there...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 11, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
UK Courts Remind Clinicians – No Unilateral DNAR without Consultation
Carl WinspearIn 2014, the UK Court of Appeals handed down its judgment in Tracey v. Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, clarifying that clinicians must consult with the patient before writing a DNAR order.
A study earlier this year showed that most UK clinicians had never heard of the case. And practice regarding DNAR orders had not changed.
This month, a new case confirmed the holding in Tracey and extended it to require consultation with the family when the patient lacks capacity.
At 3:00 am on January 3, 2011, clinicians wrote a DNAR order for incapacitated Carl Winspea...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 19, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Cambridge University Hospitals Trust IT Failures: An Open Letter to Queen Elizabeth II on Repeated EHR Failures, Even After £12.7bn Wasted in Failed NHS National IT Programme
In conclusion, Your Highness, it might benefit your citizens (and those of the U.S.) if a national re-education programme were instituted to de-condition your leaders from unfettered belief in cybernetic miracles in medicine, a mental state they attain in large part due to mass EHR vendor and pundit propaganda.A more sober mindset is recommended by your subject Shaun Goldfinch in "Pessimism, Computer Failure, and Information Systems Development in the Public Sector" (Public Administration Review 67;5:917-929, Sept/Oct. 2007, then at the University of Otago, New Zealand): The majority of information systems developmen...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 24, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Addenbrooke Hospital Cambridge University Hospitals healthcare IT dangers healthcare IT risks Mismanagement NPfIT Patient care has not been compromised Rosie hospital Source Type: blogs
Inertia of Clinical Practice: Impact of Tracey on DNACPR Discussions
It has been nearly ten
months since the UK Court of Appeals handed down its
judgment in Tracey v. Cambridge University
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Some predicted that the decision would have "far-reaching im... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 29, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Gillian Murphy
is professor emeritus of cancer cell biology at Cambridge University. She visited F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets at the F1000 offices last week. In this video, she tells us about her new role as joint Section Head of Cartilage … Continue reading → (Source: Naturally Selected)
Source: Naturally Selected - March 18, 2015 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Adie Chan Tags: Faculty Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology Video Source Type: blogs
A health agenda comes to the 2015 Oscars
The following post originally ran on Health Populi.
The 87th annual 2015 Oscars show (#Oscars15) feted more than the movie industry: the event celebrated health in both explicit and subtle ways.
Julianne Moore took the golden statuette for Best Actress, playing the title role in Still Alice, the story a woman diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. In accepting her award, Moore spoke of the need to recognize and “see” people with Alzheimer’s – so many people feel isolated and marginalized, Moore explained. Movies help us feel seen and not alone – and people with Alzheimer’s need to be seen so we can...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Cytotoxic T Cell Horror Flick
Liven up your A&P class with a great video showing a gruesome attack by a killer T cell on a cancer cell. It's a fantastic bit of video microscopy produced by Cambridge University.Okay, with the oddly soothing music score instead of a more appropriate score for the graphic violence shown in this video, it's not much of a horror flick. Especially when you consider that it's the "bad guy" cell getting whacked. But it is graphic and dramatic and impressive.Just the thing to liven up a discussion of adaptive immunity, which (let's face it) can often cause a catatonic state in many students. It's a free resource...
Source: The A and P Professor - February 9, 2015 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Tracey v. Cambridge University Hospital – Duty to Consult
The December 2014 issue of Clinical Medicine (Royal College of Physicians) includes a nice summary of the impact and implications of the UK Court of Appeal's judgment in Tracey v. Cambridge University Hospital. Under prior UK cases like Aintree a... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 15, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
What in God's Name is Going on With Healthcare IT at Cambridge University Hospitals?
This story about a UK hospital that recently "went live"with an American electronic health record/enterprise command-and-control system (EPIC) was not only predictable, but expected considering the sorry state of the health IT industry in terms of clinical leadership and regulation.(It appears this was a "big bang" rollout, see http://www.ehi.co.uk/news/EHI/8845/cambridge-goes-for-epic-big-bang, an implementation method better suited for warehouses and widget suppliers than major hospitals.)Addenbrooke’s staff blame blood shortage on new eHospitalBy CambridgeNews | Posted: November 05, 2014http://www.ca...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 12, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: Addenbrooke Hospital Cambridge University Hospitals healthcare IT crash healthcare IT dangers healthcare IT risk Patient care has not been compromised Source Type: blogs
Today's YAMMM (Yet Another Mostly Male Meeting) Brought to You by CIFAR & NAS
Well, just got an invite to this meeting: Symbioses becoming permanent: The origins and evolutionary trajectories of organelles. The topic seems of direct interest to what I work on. And, it is relatively close (Irvine is a short hop away). So this could be a way to go to a meeting without having to travel too far. And maybe I could see my younger brother Matt who lives in LA and just graduated from UC Irvine's Masters program in Sound Engineering. Then I looked at the schedule of speakers and organizers. Many are friends. Many others are colleagues. Could be fun to see some p...
Source: The Tree of Life - August 15, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Tracey v. Cambridge Hospital – Duty to Consult ALREADY the Law in USA
The recent UK Appellate judgment in Tracey v. Cambridge University Hospital establishes a duty on the part of clinicians to consult with patients or surrogates before writing a DNR order. Notably, British physicians have a duty to consult even th... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 24, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
