New Zealand's New Prime Minister Is Making Nice with China
There is little question that New Zealand will continue to pursue an independent foreign policy, albeit perhaps a quietly Western-aligned one, when it comes to China. Washington should not become disillusioned with Wellington, but it should not hold high expectations about cooperation on China issues either. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 9, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
What ChatGPT Means for Virtual-First Care
The following is a guest article by Erica Jain, Co-Founder and CEO at Healthie
ChatGPT has been dominating headlines since its release in November. While the AI Chatbot has already led to some truly whimsical poetry, comedic greetings, and helpful travel suggestions, it has also started to raise questions about its application in healthcare.
ChatGPT is revolutionizing the world – and this will hit healthcare, albeit a bit slower than other industries. Healthcare is inherently conservative and resistant to change, plus liability in a care setting is a massive issue. All that being said, in the 5 to 10-year time horizo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC AI Chatbot ChatGPT Digital Health Erica Jain Healthcare Chatbots Healthcare ChatGPT Healthcare Generative AI Healt Source Type: blogs
Measures to Address the Stalled Development of Health Law Education in Chinese Universities
Jingyi Xu (Peking University), Yue Wang (Peking University), Measures to Address the Stalled Development of Health Law Education in Chinese Universities (2023): Health law education, an important part of global health education, is beneficial for both medical and law schools.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 5, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Measures to Address the Stalled Development of Health Law Education in Chinese Universities
Jingyi Xu (Peking University), Yue Wang (Peking University), Measures to Address the Stalled Development of Health Law Education in Chinese Universities, Global Health Res Pol ’y (2023): Health law education, an important part of global health education, is beneficial for both... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 30, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Environmental sustainability and occupational therapy practice, revisited.
Please go here formy first thoughts on sustainability in occupational therapy around ten years ago.I received an email from a colleague who has been an advocate and published author on this topic asking me if I had the opportunity to revisit my thoughts on sustainability and occupational therapy.In fact I have continued to think about this, so I thought I would document my response here.Hi XXXXX- Thanks for reaching out. I have previously and still believe that the study of climate change itself should remain within the purview of climate scientists. It seems to me that when it is co-opted by distal groups (incl...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - July 28, 2023 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 17th 2023
In conclusion, the longevity-associated genotype of FLT1 may confer increased lifespan by protecting against mortality risk posed by hypertension. We suggest that FLT1 expression in individuals with longevity genotype boosts vascular endothelial resilience mechanisms to counteract hypertension-related stress in vital organs and tissues.
Resistance Exercise Slows the Onset of Pathology in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/07/resistance-exercise-slows-the-onset-of-pathology-in-a-mouse-model-of-alzheimers-disease/
With the caveat that mouse models of Alzheimer'...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 16, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Resibufogenin as a Senolytic Compound
Researchers continue to search for novel senolytic compounds, those capable of selectively destroying senescent cells while producing a minimal impact on other cells. In youth, senescent cells are rapidly cleared by the immune system, but this clearance falters with age, leading to an accumulating burden of senescence in tissues throughout the body. These lingering senescent cells secrete pro-growth, pro-inflammatory signals that are disruptive to tissue structure and function when sustained over the long term. The lasting presence of senescent cells contributes to the chronic inflammation of aging, as well as to the onset...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Chinese chicken congee for the soul: Aligning care with cultural context
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the United States, with 18.9 million currently in the U.S. and a projected 35.8 million by 2060 with many Asian Americans being immigrants. A study of over 6,700 Asian Americans, Hispanics, African Americans, and Caucasians revealed that Asian Americans were least likely to feel that their physician
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Chinese chicken congee for the soul: Aligning care with cultural context originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cherry Au, MD, Christine Tsai, MD, and Mandy Che Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
The Heat is On
BY KIM BELLARD
Attention must be paid: the world is now hotter than it has been in 125,000 years.
A week ago, we broke the record for average global temperature. That record was broken the next day. Later in the week it was broken yet again. Yeah, I know; weather records are broken all the time, so what’s the big deal?
Well, it is a big deal, and we should all be worried. “It’s not a record to celebrate and it won’t be a record for long,” Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, told CNN.
Bill Maguire, a professor a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Russia's War in Ukraine Could Reshape the Global Arms Market in Favor of China
The war in Ukraine is straining Russia ' s defense production, which is having downstream effects on Moscow ' s ability to export arms. China has the opportunity, the incentive, and the capacity to gain from Russia ' s losses. As Russia relinquishes more of its share of the global arms market, there is not much standing in the way of China ' s success. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 10, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Weilong Kong Source Type: blogs
China ’s Health Silk Road: A Way Forward for Global Health Equity in a Post-Pandemic World
Jingyi Xu (Peking University), Yue Wang (Peking University), China ’s Health Silk Road: A Way Forward for Global Health Equity in a Post-Pandemic World, J. Global Health Econ. Pol’y (2023): The cross-border transmission of COVID-19 pandemic highlighted major challenges of mounting... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 9, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Like I said
The high level U.S. delegation currently in China has a lot to talk about,but they ' re putting climate change at the top of the agenda. As I said there ' s absolutely no sense driving deeper wedges between the U.S. and China. In factthe major issues are mostly about trade, global investment, and economic relations, one way or another, and those can only be resolved by deal making, not confrontation. In fact rare earths and semiconductors and photovoltaics are at the center of many of the issues so it ' s already about climate change. We hear absurd yelping from Republicans about how the administration&nbs...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 8, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Stiffkey Spoonies and Trimingham Bee-eaters
We took our first camping trip to Stiffkey for several years. Torrential rain and wind during the first night, but better, brighter, hotter days to follow, mostly. Mrs Sciencebase spotted Spoonbills at North Fen Stiffkey on Tuesday night before the rain, so we headed that way the next morning and discovered a flock of around 16 or 17. Alongside Cormorant and Avocet.
Spoonbill in flight
The next day’s walk took us west to Wells-next-Sea where there was another flock of 14 or so.
Spoonbill in flight, showing breeding plumage
In between those two sightings, however, we had headed for the quarry at Trimingham further alo...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - July 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
Taiwan, Gun Violence, Fishing in the Arctic: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the potential for a Chinese attack on Taiwan, America ' s persistent gun violence problem, managing Arctic fisheries, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 7, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
China's Bullying Proves South Korea's Yoon Is on the Right Track
An escalating war of words between Beijing and Seoul is raising pressure on South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to take a softer line with China. Instead, the Yoon administration should see Beijing ' s threats of punishment as vindication for further strengthening and expanding Seoul ' s alliance with the United States. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
