U.S. Whitewashes Saudi War Crimes
There are indications now that the Saudi Arabian government may havemurdered a prominent Saudi journalist who advocated domestic reforms and opposed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A Turkish investigation concluded that a 15-member “preplanned murder team” killed Jamal Khashoggi when he was visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Not surprisingly, Riyadh has flatly denied Turkey’s allegation, but that denial seems to have even less credibility than most Saudi statements. Khashoggi has contributed articles to theWashington Post and numerous other prominent Western news outlets, and he has an abundance of influenti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 9, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Stop the money-shaming in medicine
There is a taboo in medicine. It is becoming less prominent, but it still exists. You’re not supposed to talk about money. Not how much something costs a patient, not how much you get paid, not how you invest, and certainly not about the freedom from medicine that financial independence can bring.
This first shows up as you are applying to medical school. You don’t want anyone writing a letter of recommendation or heaven forbid an admissions committee to get even a whiff of an idea that you might actually want to receive a paycheck for practicing medicine at some point down the road. It is reinforced throughout medica...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/james-m-dahle" rel="tag" > James M. Dahle, MD < /a > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 30th 2018
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - July 29, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Liz Parrish and BioViva, a Chapter in the Telomerase Gene Therapy Book
As a part of efforts to push forward the treatment of aging as a medical condition, Liz Parrish
underwent telomerase and follistatin gene therapies a few years ago. She formed a company, BioViva Sciences, to follow through. Self-experimentation is the most ethical of all possible ways proceed from animal studies to human studies, and is unfairly slandered in this day and age. There is a long history of notable researchers first testing their work on themselves. Self-experimentation must be followed through by success in business, fundraising, research and development, however - the areas in which all too many initiatives...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 23, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Venezuela: The Biggest Humanitarian Crisis That You Haven't Heard Of
ConclusionThe Venezuelan emigration crisis is going to worsen before it improves. If the labor market and economic integration of Syrians refugees outside of Syria since 2011 can offer any lessons to South America, they are:Allow Venezuelans to legally work in host countries so that their employment and labor force participation rates rise.Deregulate labor markets generally because more legal work opportunities will reduce Venezuelan labor market competition with locals. Legal employment reduces the net cost of social services and charity as well as increases feelings of belonging and contentment among the emigrants.S...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 20, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Free Trade Agreements Don't Increase the Number of Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the recent winner of a Democratic primary for Congress in New York, argued that free-trade agreements (FTAs) have caused the number of refugees and asylum seekers to the United States to grow. This is a somewhat common claim among somecritics of trade or FTAs in particular. To test this claim, we gathered a list of all the FTAs that the United States has signed and how many asylum seekers and refugees they sent to the United States since the year 2000. We combined all asylum seekers, affirmative and defensive, that were counted by the United Nation Human Rights Commission. Some asylum se...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 11, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Norms vs Rules: How Japanese fans embodied normative good
As with every major global sporting event, some stuff went viral. The best one so far has been this: Japanese fans clean up stadium after their win vs Colombia…#Russia2018 #Inspiring #Japan #football #WorldCup #mademesmile #learnfromjapan #inspiration #JPNCOL #JPN #Fans pic.twitter.com/qil7RHmU5v — [...] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 24, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Kyle Munkittrick Tags: Health Care bioethics syndicated Source Type: blogs
On Cannibals And Cardiologists
Everyone knows that cannibalism was practiced widely in pre-Colombian Mexico. Go online and you will quickly learn that 15,000 to 20,000 Aztecs were sacrificed each year. This “fact” colors our view of that civilization, and makes it a bit easier to give a pass to the conquistadors who, for all their own rapacity, brought “civilization”...Click here to continue reading... (Source: CardioBrief)
Source: CardioBrief - June 21, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics ICDs overuse stents Source Type: blogs
I experienced trauma working in Iraq. I see it now among America ’s doctors.
I was on my honeymoon in Colombia when I first became aware of the true extent of my post-traumatic stress disorder. My husband and I were walking across a smooth, granite platform to take a closer look at a fountain in downtown Cartagena. As we neared the structure, mist from the fountain’s jets dampened the ground at my feet.
I froze, paralyzed with fear by a flashback — my first — triggered by something as ordinary as wet pavement on a warm day.
Two years earlier, I was working in civic engagement efforts in Baghdad. One morning, as I walked across a smooth, granite platform toward my apartment, gunfire erupted. I...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/elizabeth-metraux" rel="tag" > Elizabeth M étraux < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Primary Care Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral position at Center for Language Science, Pennsylvania State University
The Center for Language Science (CLS) at The Pennsylvania State University (http://cls.psu.edu) invites applications for a postdoctoral position. The CLS is home to a cross-disciplinary research program that includes the NSF training program, ‘Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE): Translating cognitive and brain science in the laboratory and field to language learning environments’ that was awarded to The Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Riverside. The program provides training i n translational research on language learning and bilingualism that includes an intern...
Source: Talking Brains - April 9, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
A Free Trade Valentine
Today millions of Americans will celebrate Valentine ’s Day by purchasing roses for their loved ones and, in so doing, will participate in one of the everyday miracles of capitalism which too often escape our notice. As a recentWashington Post article points out, these roses will most likely have been grown thousands of miles away in Colombia, flown to the United States aboard cargo jets, and then delivered to florists and other retailers at the cost of a mere $1.50 per stem. That this is possible is not only a tribute to the magical powers of capitalism, but —as the newspaper notes—free trade and a2012 agreement be...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 14, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Hispanic Nurses On Fire
I recently spent an incredibly inspiring and powerful weekend with 100 Latino nurse leaders who gathered in San Antonio, Texas for the inauguralNational Association of Hispanic Nurses Leadership Institute. This spirited group of forward thinking nurses of all ages clearly demonstrates that unity, organizing, critical thinking, and planning for the future are part and parcel of enlightened 21st-century nurse leadership.The National Association of Hispanic Nurses is the premier nursing organization focused on growing Latino nurse leaders and uniting the many cultures and people within the Hispanic nursing community throughou...
Source: Digital Doorway - January 30, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: careers healthcare healthcare careers nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
BioViva Illustrates the Tension Between Progress and Regulation
Elizabeth Parrish of BioViva, you might recall, has made every effort to publicize the follistatin and telomerase gene therapy that she underwent. This is a strategy intended to accelerate progress; I suspect she was not the first, and that others were just more circumspect. The technology exists, it is not expensive in the grand scheme of things, and at the very least hundreds of people have the laboratory access and the knowledge to carry out such an operation. BioViva's efforts, and those of other ventures such as the Odin and Ascendance Biomedical illustrate the tension between desire for progress and desire for regula...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 27, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
The Hydra-Headed Drug Business
With television cameras rolling and Attorney General Jeff Sessions on hand in San Diego, the Coast Guardannounced late last month that it had set a new record for cocaine seizures at sea —more than 455,000 pounds through September 11, topping last year’s record. At last we ’ve turned the corner in the war on drugs. Right? Don ’t bet on it. When Americans read about ever-larger drug busts, or when we watch television shows about drug enforcement, we get the impression that drug enforcement agents are clever and innovative, always staying one step ahead of the sinister pushers. But in reality the drug distribut...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 11, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
