23 and BS
If you are unfortunate enough to watch television, you have no doubt seen ads for a company that will analyze your DNA and tell you where your ancestors come from.A sample ad consists of a woman saying, " I used to think I was Hispanic. But when I got my results back, I discovered that I ' meverything!I have ancestors from all over the world. " A pie chart displays behind her showing percentages of ancestry from various places. " Now I know I ' m not Hispanic after all. When they ask my ethnicity, I check ' other ' . "Whoa. Talk about people unclear on the concept. She is the very paradigm of Hispanic, which means people w...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 12, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Does School Choice Segregate?
When those in power make blatantly false claims that could lead to less freedom for the least advantaged members of society, it is imperative that they are corrected. The President of the American Federation for Teachers, Randi Weingarten,gave a speech last month where she stated that school “vouchers increase racial and economic segregation.”What Does the Evidence Say?As I pointed out last month in a Cato Policy Forum onSchool Choice and Democracy, out of the eight rigorous empirical studies existing on the subject, seven of them show that school voucher programs increase racial integration within the United States. A...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 18, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Corey A. DeAngelis Source Type: blogs
The Top Telemedicine Solutions Bringing Patients and Doctors Closer To Each Other
Telemedicine fulfills a natural demand in the digital age: how to bring patients and doctors closer to each other without the need to lose long hours through traveling, but gain all the benefits of healthcare. Telemedicine should become such an integral part of the healthcare system in the future that it would not be labeled as “telemedicine” anymore but just another ordinary way to talk to peers or patients. Until that happens, let’s see the top telemedicine solutions out there.
The “teledactyl” wanted to feel patients at a distance
Telemedicine is usually depicted as a new technology that needs to be pushed int...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 16, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Telemedicine digital health future gc4 Health 2.0 Healthcare Hospital mhealth Personalized medicine technology Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201, courtesy of Dr Hakan Yaman from RFDS.
Question 1
What is the rate of severe permanent TBI in the Asterix comics, 0%, 25%, 50% or 90%?
http://www.asterix.com/the-collection/albums/asterix-and-the-picts.html
+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answer
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five asterix CRP Death dying Felty's syndrome fingernail GCS head injury hospital Pain pencil RA rheumatoid arthritis TBI Source Type: blogs
Urgencia UC: Conceptos 2017
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
My friends in Chile are at it again, Urgencia UC: Conceptos 2017 is rapidly approaching.
This is a cutting edge emergency medicine conference featuring internationally recognised luminaries as well as an exciting bunch of local speakers.
It will be great if you’ve got some Spanish to work with but all the talks will be simultaneously translated into English/ Spanish (depending on what language the talk is being given in).
I went out there as a speaker last year (apologi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 30, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Education Chile Conceptos 2017 Conference Emergency Medicine south america Urgencia UC Source Type: blogs
The BCRA Is An Improvement Over Obamacare. Here ’ s why..
ANISH KOKA MD
Dr. Jha writes on these pages in typically stirring fashion about his views on the recent health care kerfuffle and rightly so fingers what the real focus of our efforts should be: Cost. He ends by slaying both sides because of their refusal to confront the hospital chargemonster – the fee schedule hospitals make that remarkably only really applies to the uninsured.
Unfortunately, the solution proposed ensures hospital fee schedules for the uninsured are no greater than Medicare reimbursements, which is far from perfect. Consider that the Medicare reimbursement for a stent placed to an ischemic limb is ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Economics Repeal Replace Uncategorized Anish Koka BCRA Obamacare Source Type: blogs
The Attack on Chile's Private Pension System
Last month, a scandal erupted in Chile. The media discovered that the former director of the Chilean gendarmerie, the country ’s penitentiary service, was receiving a pension of about $8,000 per month. Chile privatized its pension system in 1980. Instead of sending retirement money to the government, workers there put their money in private accounts that invest and accumulate savings to be used in old age. When Chile app roved the reform, the military and some law enforcement agencies (such as the gendarmerie) remained in the old public system.Although the abuse occurred within the old public pension system, which benefi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 16, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Chile's Success Story on Television
A new documentary series, “Improbable Success,” looks at countries that have thrived by implementing free-market policies. The series is currently running on Sinclair Broadcast Group stations, which are found across the country, from WJLA in Washington, D.C., to KBFX in Bakersfield, California. (Sinclair stations are variously affiliated with all major networks.) This weekend, including at noon Sunday on WJLA, host Emerald Robinson will look at Chile’s economic growth since its reforms around 1980. Experts on the show include Jose Pinera, Ian Vasquez, and Richard Rahn, along with several Chilean entrepreneurs. Last w...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 17, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Old-growth Forests of Southern Chile are Experiencing Large and Unexpected Increases in Growth and Water-Use Efficiency
Those who fear anthropogenerated climate change have long claimed that global warming will negatively impact Earth’s ecosystems, including old-growth forests, where it is hypothesized that these woodland titans of several hundred years age will suffer decreased growth and increased mortality as a consequence of predicted increases in temperature and drought. However, others see the situation as the opposite – one in which trees are enhanced by the aerial fertilization effect of rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations, which is expected to increase growth and make trees less susceptible to the deleterious effects of droug...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 19, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Craig D. Idso Source Type: blogs
Preventing Traveler ’s Diarrhea Can Be Surprisingly Tasty. See How I Did It.
Potato chips for Preventing Traveler’s Diarrhea? It doesn’t seem likely, but it’s a cheap and easy trick that actually works… if you do it right. And it’s FAR safer for preventing traveler’s diarrhea, than to wait until you get it and take dangerous antibiotics, such as the Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics, that are often used for the treatment of diarrhea, that can cause dangerous ‘superinfections’ such as C-Difficile Infection.
But before I tell you how to make potato chips your best friend on a trip to a foreign land, first I’ll tell you how I know it works. Since my hon...
Source: Immune Health Blog - January 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Digestive Health gut health prebiotics prevent traveler's diarrhea probiotics resistant starch travel tips Source Type: blogs
“Magdalena Island, Chile | March 2015 Apparently...
"Magdalena Island, Chile | March 2015 Apparently it's #penguinawarenessday These are older penguins abandoned by their faster younger offspring during a seasonal migration across the islands north of Antarctica. #penguins #photojournalism #nature #naturephotography" By benlowy on Instagram. Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - January 20, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
“The people who live here say it could be any Chilean...
"The people who live here say it could be any Chilean village. Except that Villa Las Estrellas is in #Antarctica. Fewer than 200 people live in this outpost, which was founded in 1984, when Chile wanted to bolster its territorial claims in Antarctica. Since then, entire families have been exposed to isolation and extreme conditions in an attempt to arrive at some semblance of normal life at the bottom of the planet. That means enduring long stretches with only a few hours of sunlight each day, among many other things. @danielberehulak photographed some of the small homes in Villa Las Estrellas, where Chilean Air Force fami...
Source: Kidney Notes - January 8, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Disagreement over Chile's National School Choice Program
Andrew J. Coulson
A week ago, the Atlanta Journal Constitution published an on-line op-ed critiquing Chile’s nationwide public-and-private school choice program. In a letter to the editor, I objected to several of the op-ed’s central claims. The authors responded, and the AJC has now published the entire exchange. A follow-up is warranted, which I offer here:
Comment on the Gaete, Jones response to my critique:
Their response consists chiefly of “moving the goalposts”—changing the issue under debate rather than responding to the critique of the original point. The first claim in their original op-ed to which I o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 30, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Andrew J. Coulson Source Type: blogs
Chile's Proposed Education Reforms Would Kill the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs
Andrew J. Coulson
For the past three decades, Chile has had a nationwide voucher-like school choice program. Parents can choose among public and private schools, and the government picks up most or all of the tab. But, since the election last fall of a left-leaning government led by Michelle Bachelet, the future of the program has been in doubt. In May, President Bachelet introduced a first round of reforms aimed at dismantling aspects of the program, though these are still under debate. I’ve written about what that could mean for Chile’s educational performance and equality in today’s edition of the San...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 15, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Andrew J. Coulson Source Type: blogs
Postdoc: Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics
A postdoc in systems biology / bioinformatics working in the Millennium Nucleus in Fungal
Integrative and Synthetic Biology is available. The position is in the laboratory of Dr Luis Larrondo at P. Universidad Católica de Chile. The Postdoc announcement has additional details. (Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics)
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - February 28, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: postdoc chile neurospora systems biology Source Type: blogs
