There is No Public Safety Justification for the " Travel Ban "
The Trump administration ’snewest argument in favor of the travel ban is that foreigners from the eight banned countries are disproportionately crime prone. Indeed, the administration ’s new travel banproclamation references “criminal” risks or “public safety threats” from foreigners from those eight banned countries a total 34 times. However, the incarceration rate for people from the travel ban countries is below that of native-born Americans and foreign-born folks from countries that were not on the travel ba n list.The average incarceration rate for those born in the travel ban countries is 0.32 percent, al...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 7, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Top Five Challenges of Healthcare Cloud Deployments and How to Solve Them
The following is a guest blog post by Chad Kissinger, Founder of OnRamp.
According to the HIMSS 2016 Survey, 84 percent of providers are currently using a cloud service, showing security and compliance issues are not preventing organizations from deploying cloud environments. Despite growing adoption rates, breaches and security incidents continue to rise. Cloud deployments and ongoing environment management errors are to blame.
Cloud services offer clear benefits—performance, cost savings, and scalability to name a few—so it’s no wonder healthcare organizations, like yours, are eager to take advantage of all that...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 2, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Digital Health Healthcare Healthcare CIO HealthCare IT HIPAA General HIPAA Training Chad Kissinger EHR Cloud Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Cloud Security Shadow IT Source Type: blogs
New Travel Ban Would Not Have Prevented the Entry of Any Terrorists Since 9/11
President Trump signed anew proclamation this weekend that bans or restricts the travel and immigration of nationals from eight countries. This order drops the pretext of being a temporary measure and includes no end date. Inour amicus brief for the Supreme Court case challenging his prior executive order banning travel from six countries, we criticized the ban as lacking a basis in the evidence regarding terrorism threats and terrorism vetting failures. This new order fares no better. It is even further divorced from threats of terrorism to the United States than the prior order.The new targets are the nationals of the fo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 25, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
President Trump's New Travel Executive Order Has Little National Security Justification
President Trump issued anew proclamation that expanded a list of the so-called “travel ban” countries that were the subject of an executive order he issued early in his administration. His first order temporarily banned the entry of nationals from six countries fordubious national security reasons. His new order expands the list to eight countries (as Isomewhat predicted). They include Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. From the original six, he subtracted Sudan and added Chad, North Korea, and Venezuela. The new executive order is also not a complete ban for all of those countries. A...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 25, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
The EpiPen Whistleblower Saga Comes to a Close
Last week, Mylan Inc. and Mylan Specialty L.P. (hereinafter “Mylan”) reached an agreement with the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to pay $465 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”). Mylan knowingly misclassified EpiPen as a generic drug, attempting to avoid paying rebates that were owed to Medicaid.
The settlement resolves the government’s allegations that Mylan, by erroneously reporting EpiPen as a generic drug to Medicaid despite the absence of any therapeutically equivalent drugs, was able to demand massive price increases in the private market while avoidin...
Source: Policy and Medicine - August 31, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Dear parents: We ’re fighting for your children
I just wanted to let you know that we’re fighting for your kids. Because, whether you realize it or not, they are in danger.
You usually see us in the office, or maybe making rounds in the hospital. We decorate our offices with bright colors and sea creatures, and we give your kids stickers when they’re cooperative (and even when they aren’t). In general, we’re a pretty friendly bunch.
We’re people — parents like you, for the most part — who have dedicated our lives to promoting the welfare of children in this country and around the world.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 2, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/chad-hayes" rel="tag" > Chad Hayes, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Befrienders Worldwide
Originally established in 1974 by Chad Varah (founder of the Samaritans), then recently launched as an independent charity in 2012, Befrienders Worldwide is a dynamic and expanding global network of 349 emotional support centers in 32 countries, spanning 5 continents. These centers are staffed by more than 25,000 volunteers who provide vital support to an estimated 7 million service users each year.
Befrienders Worldwide centers provide an open space for those in distress to talk and be heard. This is via telephone helplines, SMS messaging, face to face, internet chat, outreach and local partnerships.
We believe in giving ...
Source: PsychSplash - July 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Clyde Tags: Anyone Articles Clinical Psychology Depression Emotional Health Features For Foundation Website General Psychology Information Mental Health Mental Health Promotion Newsletter Personality Personality disorders Search Engine Source Type: blogs
Immigrants and Teenage Summer Employment
A common fear about lower-skilled immigrants is that they will push native-born Americans with similar skills out of the labor market. In recent years, this argument focuses on the harm tonative-bornteenagers who are most substitutable with lower-skilled immigrants —especially those on theH-2B visa for seasonal non-agricultural work. This effect is supposed to be greatest in thesummer time when American teenagers are on school vacation. Teenagers are working less than they used to but the U.S. labor market has changed in myriad ways that are unrelated to immigration, especially when it comes to the opportunity cost o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 31, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Advance Care Planning and End of Life (ACPEL) Conference
Discussions: A Randomized Controlled Trial and Video Intervention - Maureen Douglas, University of Alberta 4. Identification of indicators to monitor successful implementation of Advance Care Planning policies: a modified Delphi study - Patricia Biondo, University of Calgary5. The economics of advance care planning, Konrad Fassbender, University of Alberta; Covenant HealthSession 2: Health Care Consent, Advance Care Planning, and Goals of Care: The Challenge to Get It Right in OntarioHealth Care Consent, Advance Care Planning, and Goals of Care: The Challenge to Get It Right in Ontario - Tara Walton, Ontario Pal...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 15, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
It ’s time for kids to stop drinking fruit juice. Here’s why.
A few thousand years ago, a talking snake convinced a child to pick a piece of fruit, squeeze it really hard, and drink whatever came out. The kid liked it, obviously, because what’s not to like about juice? So the next day at preschool, he told all his friends to ask their parents for juice, too. Some of them said the magic word; others just whined until their parents gave in. And we all know what happened from there.
Maybe that’s not really how it went down, but lots of parents give their kids juice. But here’s the thing: nobody needs juice.
Why not? Because it’s sugar water. The fact that the sugar came from an ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 2, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/chad-hayes" rel="tag" > Chad Hayes, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Why it ’s hard for physicians to order fewer tests
It’s common knowledge in medicine: Doctors routinely order tests on hospital patients that are unnecessary and wasteful. Sutter Health, a giant hospital chain in Northern California, thought it had found a simple solution.
The Sacramento-based health system deleted the button physicians used to order daily blood tests. “We took it out and couldn’t wait to see the data,” said Ann Marie Giusto, a Sutter Health executive.
Alas, the number of orders hardly changed. That’s because the hospital’s medical-records software “has this cool ability to let you save your favorites,” Giusto said at a recent presentation ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 2, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/chad-terhune" rel="tag" > Chad Terhune < /a > Tags: Policy Hospital Source Type: blogs
The vaccine study you ’ll never see
I’ve seen a lot of social media posts or comment threads that say we don’t have any studies to prove that the CDC’s vaccine schedule is safe or effective.|
As a pediatrician, the first time I read that, I was surprised. But now, I think I know what they mean.
I think they mean that we haven’t done the best study. Those of us in the scientific and medical fields frequently demand well-designed studies — like double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trials — so why not apply that same requirement to vaccines? Why hasn’t anybody ever done that study?
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 7, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/chad-hayes" rel="tag" > Chad Hayes, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
My kids are vaccinated because I love them
Most of you know me — if you know me at all — as a pediatrician.
But I’m a parent, too, just like you. I have three fantastic girls that I love dearly. Let’s talk.
My first daughter was born before I knew anything about medicine. She has taught me more than I could have imagined. I’ve watched as she has grown from a tiny and helpless infant into the child she is today — a mature and caring girl whose generosity puts me to shame.
Our second daughter came while I was in medical school. She looks just like her big sister, but has a very different personality. As a baby, she was … we’ll call it “f...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 19, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/chad-hayes" rel="tag" > Chad Hayes, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Should we stop burping babies?
One evening this past week, after my wife finished feeding our 5-week-old daughter, I took over baby duty. I sat her up on my lap and gave her a few thumps on the back. Not hard enough to hurt, obviously, but just to make her burp.
She didn’t burp. So I gave her a couple more gentle-but-firm whacks, still without a result.
And then I remembered the phone call I got a couple years ago from a mom whose baby wouldn’t burp. It was late at night, probably 10:00 p.m. or so. The baby had taken her formula just like normal, but after 30 minutes of trying, her poor mom couldn’t make her burp. And she was really concerned.
I a...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 7, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/chad-hayes" rel="tag" > Chad Hayes, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
