Trade Policy Uncertainty, Industrial Agglomeration and Agricultural Structure Transformation in China
This study investigates the impact of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) reduction on county-level... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 14, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Challenges in China-ASEAN Food Safety Cooperation Governance Through Soft Law
Yi Lu (Peking University), Challenges in China-ASEAN Food Safety Cooperation Governance Through Soft Law, 3 Peking U. Transnat ’l L. Rev. (2015): It has been 5 years since the ASEAN-China Free Trade Zone was established. This economic cooperation has injected much... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 14, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
I Think We Still Have A Great Deal To Learn About The Denisovans …
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Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon
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Researchers have found fresh evidence that may connect the mysterious
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They remain one of the most elusive groups of (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Will Medical Facial Recognition Technology (mFRT) Reawaken Eugenics?
By MIKE MAGEE
How comfortable is the FDA and Medical Ethics community with a new super-charged medical Facial Recognition Technology (mFRT) that claims it can “identify the early stages of autism in infants as young as 12 months?” That test already has a name -the RightEye GeoPref Autism Test. Its’ UC San Diego designer says it was 86% accurate in testing 400 infants and toddlers.
Or how about Face2Gene which claims its’ mFRT tool already has linked half of the known human genetic syndromes to “facial patterns?”
Or how about employers using mFRT facial and speech patterns to identify employees likely t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Where ’s Our Infrastructure Plan B?
By KMI BELLARD
I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure. In particular, what to do when it fails.
There was, of course, the tragic collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. Watching the video – and, honestly, what were the odds there’d be video? — is like watching a disaster movie, the bridge crumbling slowly but unstoppably. The bridge had been around for almost fifty years, withstanding over 11 million vehicles crossing it each year. All it took to knock it down was one container ship.
Container ships passed under it every day of its existence; the Port of Baltimore is one of the busie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Bridges Change Healthcare GPS Infrastructure Internet Cables Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Symbols of Survival: Finding the Oldest Chinese Restaurants in the United States
Gabriel “Jack” Chin (University of California, Davis), Symbols of Survival: Finding the Oldest Chinese Restaurants in the United States (2023): Denied the right to naturalize and excluded from many occupations, Chinese immigrants to the U.S. had limited employment opportunities. In... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 3, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
More Fenland birding
Having spent a couple of evenings watching Starling murmurations with hundreds of thousands of birds, it was time to seek out some Aves in smaller numbers. I had a quick look in at RSPB Ouse Fen (Earith) as it was bright and sunny on Saturday morning. I was hoping to that there would be a chance that the Cranes would be showing. They weren’t but there was a Great White Egret, as ever, and a Chinese Water Deer, I had only fleeting, distant views of a solitary Marsh Harrier. I headed out to Chain Corner to check on the Whooper Swans, a few on the water and one that flew right over me.
Next on to a patch of flooded far...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 31, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Investigating the Primary Cilium: Q & A With Xuecai Ge
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Xuecai Ge.
The brain is a large and complex organ, but some very small structures guide its development. Xuecai Ge, Ph.D., an associate professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Merced (UC Merced), has devoted her career to understanding one of these structures called the primary cilium. In an interview, Dr. Ge shared how her childhood experience inspired her to study science and what makes the primary cilium fascinating.
Q: How did you first become interested in science?
A: When I was a little kid, my mom was a primary care doctor, and I saw her treat patients...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 27, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Cellular Processes Profiles Source Type: blogs
What Scares Healthcare Like EVs Scare Detroit
By KMI BELLARD
I’m thinking about electric vehicles (EVs)…and healthcare.
Now, mind you, I don’t own an EV. I’m not seriously thinking about getting one (although if I’m still driving in the 2030’s I expect it will be in one). To be honest, I’m not really all that interested in EVs. But I am interested in disruption, so when Robinson Meyer warned in The New York Times “China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball,” he had my attention. And when on the same day I also read that Apple was cancelling its decade-long effort to build an EV, I was definitely paying attention.
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Source: The Health Care Blog - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Biden Detroit EVs Hospitals Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Planet Earith – Starling murmurations
At the end of February, I got wind of there being very large numbers of Common Starling murmurating at a local nature reserve – RSPB Ouse Fen (Earith). I got a few photos on an evening visit. There were probably half a million birds, it was quite astonishing. I based my estimate on counts I’ve done of photographs of smaller flocks and extrapolating to the huge patches of sky that were covered with birds on the evening.
I got some nice photos at sunset but my phone video was very smeary and low-res. So, a second visit was essential. Unfortunately, rumour had it that the numbers the next night were smaller, that ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 4, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
This is Planet Earith – Starling murmurations
At the end of February, I got wind of there being very large numbers of Common Starling murmurating at a local nature reserve – RSPB Ouse Fen (Earith). I got a few photos on an evening visit. There were probably half a million birds, it was quite astonishing. I based my estimate on counts I’ve done of photographs of smaller flocks and extrapolating to the huge patches of sky that were covered with birds on the evening.
I got some nice photos at sunset but my phone video was very smeary and low-res. So, a second visit was essential. Unfortunately, rumour had it that the numbers the next night were smaller, that...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 4, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
My journey through the parable of American health care
The parable of the Chinese farmer is a story with many versions. In shorthand, it goes something like this: a farmer’s horse escapes – the neighbors say, “How terrible!” The farmer says, “Maybe.” The horse returns, bringing some wild horses with it. The neighbors say, “How wonderful!” The farmer says, “Maybe.” The farmer’s son falls
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My journey through the parable of American health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 4, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Claudia Finkelstein, MD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Irrationality
One assumption that economic theorists have been weirdly fond of is the idea that as consumers, and investors, people are " rational actors. " We ' ll put the investor aside for the time being and just consider ourselves as consumers -- people who buy stuff with money. (We also consume a lot that we don ' t pay for but that ' s for another day.) The idea of rationality in this context means, first of all, that our desires for goods and services that might be on sale are quantifiable in units called utiles, an idea which has always been kind of vague, but basically it means that I can say that three tomatoes right now ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 2, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Language Equity in Medical Education
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Pilar Ortega, MD, MGM, Débora Silva, MD, MEd, and Bright Zhou, MD, MS, join host Toni Gallo to discuss strategies to address language-related health disparities and enhance language-appropriate training and assessment in medical education. They explore one specific language concordant education framework, Culturally Reflective Medicine, which recognizes and supports the lived experiences and expertise of multi-lingual learners and clinicians from minoritized communities.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcast...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 20, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast diversity and inclusion language equity medical education medical education scholarship patient care Source Type: blogs
Mid-term exam: Essay question
Here is a historical graph of life expectancy at birth, for Homo sapiens on planet Earth. The picture for the U.S. specifically is very similar, although the upturn started a bit earlier. (That mysterious dip around 1959 is the Chinese famine resulting from the so-called Great Leap Forward. In a graph of just the U.S., you would see a similar dip around 1918, from the influenza pandemic.) You can extend that horizontal tail back 6,000 years or more. In any given local area it might have gone up a bit in good times and down in times of plague or famine, but it basically stayed at around 30 years, never abov...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 19, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
