Trump's Trade Deficit Obsession
My previous attempts atasking a Trump trade adviser directly about trade policy failed. I ’m now going to try another approach: Interpreting something surprising two other Trump advisers said.Here ’s what Wilbur Ross and Peter Navarrowrote recently:The saddest fact here is that Hillary Clinton doesn ’t know the difference between a good trade deal and a bad one. Exhibit A is the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR).In her economic speech in Detroit, Clinton bragged that she voted against the one multilateral trade deal that came before the Senate while she was there. That was indeed CAFTA-DR, a multilater...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 31, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester Source Type: blogs
Seymour Papert & the Power of (Patient) Engagement
By LYGEIA RICCARDI
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The best healing takes place when the patient or consumer is engaged…
Last Sunday Dr. Seymour Papert passed away at the age of 88. The world lost a great thinker, teacher, and mathematician, but his spirit lives on in many former colleagues and students, including (with gratitude), me. Seymour cut an eccentric figure, with a bushy grey beard, a rumpled tweed jacket, and a thick South African accent. However charmingly quirky, he was the real deal: a visionary, a trailblazer in the world of technology and its application. He spoke softly, but his words quickly cut to the hear...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Measles Vaccination Rates and Immigration
A recent outbreak of measles at the Eloy Detention Center has raised some concerns over disease and immigration. The disease was carried in by an immigrant who was detained, allowing it to spread among some of the guards who were not vaccinated. The Detention Center has since claimed that it vaccinates all migrants who are there and is working on getting all of its employees vaccinated. Regardless, how much should we worry about measles brought in by unvaccinated immigrants? Very little.
First, measles vaccines are highly effective at containing the disease. There are two primary measles vaccinations. The first...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 11, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Coral Bleaching Is Not a Tell-Tale Sign of Imminent Extinction
Climate alarmists seem to be working overtime these days to persuade the public to support legislation to combat dangerous climate change, which they claim will occur unless CO2 emissions are drastically reduced. And after nearly two decades of over-predicting global warming (there has been little to no global warming since the late 1990s), they are getting awfully desperate in their attempts to convince the public that there is an imminent climate catastrophe on the horizon.
The rhetoric-of-choice is good old-fashioned fear mongering. The latest example is a New York Times article by Michelle Innis entitled “Climate-Rel...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Craig D. Idso Source Type: blogs
Average Telomere Length is a Terrible Measure of Aging
In this study, telomere length is measured in leukocytes, which is common across most research. But some types of leukocytes tend to have longer telomeres than others. "Telomere length tends to be longer in the type of leukocyte that becomes more dominant when a person is ill. Therefore, a sick person might appear to have 'longer' telomere length, but that is deceptive. In fact, these critically ill individuals may be much more likely to die in the short-term despite the appearance of 'longer' telomeres."
It also is plausible that telomere length is a better predictor of long-term mortality, compared to short-term s...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 7, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Could Dangerous Mandatory Vaccines Containing Aluminum Salts be Responsible for Microcephaly in Brazil?
Conclusion
There is mounting evidence to suggest that vaccinations and medications containing aluminum salts are harmful to brain development. We need to ask ourselves why a vaccination known to contain well above the recommended levels of aluminum has been passed as safe for use in pregnancy by the Brazilian Health Ministry.
For more information on the dangers of aluminum, I recommend parents read the growing number of articles, studies and peer-reviewed papers that the Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute have listed on their website.
References:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7087284
www.cdc.gov/vaccines...
Source: vactruth.com - March 1, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Logical Top Stories adjuvants Aluminum Salts Brazil Dr. Sears Microcephaly Source Type: blogs
Woman With Stutter Detained By U.S. Customs
Last month, Kylie Simmons—a Kalamazoo College student returning from studying abroad—was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. She was expecting to catch a connecting flight home to visit her family after her six-month stay in Costa Rica. When asked where she’d been, she stuttered on her reply and was immediately pulled aside for questioning.
During the hour she estimates an agent questioned her, Simmons was accused of lying about her stutter and was asked if something was wrong with her. She cooperated politely, only asking for an apology once finally releas...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 3, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: News Fluency Disorders stuttering Source Type: blogs
“Pedro Enrique Duarte, a 48-year-old accountant from Cuba,...
"Pedro Enrique Duarte, a 48-year-old accountant from Cuba, shaved inside the bathroom of a fire station in rural Costa Rica. American law has long given Cubans special status to live in the U.S. and apply for a green card — provided they make the treacherous, 5,000-mile journey. Pedro, however, got stuck when Nicaragua refused to let the migrants pass. Soon, though, he and nearly 11,000 other Cubans will be back on the trail, continuing their perilous travel through 8 countries. "I would tell anyone not to take this trip," he said. "You spend the whole time straddling between life and death." @meridithkohut photographed ...
Source: Kidney Notes - January 11, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Health at a glance 2015
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -This new edition of Health at a Glance presents the most recent comparable data on the performance of health systems in OECD countries. Where possible, it also reports data for partner countries (Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Federation and South Africa). It includes a new set of dashboards of health indicators to summarise in a clear and user-friendly way the relative strengths and weaknesses of OECD countries on different key indicators of health and health system performance, and also a special focus on the...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 4, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Pythiosis in Humans
The following background data are abstracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com Primary references are available on request.
Human pythiosis was first described in Thailand, in 1987; and thirty-two cases had been published worldwide as of 2002. Most cases are reported from tropical and subtropical regions; however, human infection has also been encountered in United States, Israel and Australia. The principal pathogen is identified as Pythium insidiosum, and at least one case of Pythium aphanidermatum infection has been reported.
Most case reports of pythiosis are published from Thailand, which accounted for 78% of pub...
Source: GIDEON blog - August 18, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: General Source Type: blogs
Can body wash fragrance be touch activated? Episode 76
On this week’s show Perry and I explain how the new Caress Body Wash fragrance is “touch activated.” We also cover a handful of beauty science news stories.
Claim to fame: Can body wash fragrance be “touch activated?”
This is the segment where we review popular beauty product claims and tell you what the claims really mean, how the company might support them, and if the claim is compelling enough to entice you to buy the product. Today we’re talking about the new Caress Fine Fragrance Body wash.
What is the claim and what does it mean?
Here are the claims featured on the package :
Up to 12 HR ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 31, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy SchuellerDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
The spookiness about sudden death
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living … And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song and it awakens [you] and saves [you] from death.
– Anais Nin
On June 12, 2013, my driver and I were on our way to Sierpe, Costa Rica from Manuel Antonio when the road entered a palm tree plantation. About 50 meters in front of us, a blue hatchback circled into view along a bend in the road, then lost control, veered off into the plantation, and hit a palm tree head on, its front bumper popping out along a dramatic arc back onto the highway.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 28, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Farokh Jamalyaria, MD Tags: Physician Emergency Source Type: blogs
Think Outside the Lunchbox with Healthy Meal and Snack Ideas
It’s that time of year! Summer is over and the kids are headed back to school! This year think outside the lunchbox with nutritious and tasty snack and meal ideas that your kiddos will gobble up! Check out my recent appearance on DC’s Let’s Talk Live to help kick off the school year with healthy food tips that will make the transition back to school easier and healthier!
Get Your Goodness to Go
Cereal can be a smart choice for a quick breakfast. Look for high fiber, whole grain options like Post Grape Nuts and Shredded Wheat.
But what about when you really need “grab and go”? Post has a new breakfa...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - August 28, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: children eating healthy food fruits nutrition back to school cereal healthy breakfast healthy snacks hydration kiwifruit Source Type: blogs
Transplant Brokers in Israel Lure Desperate Kidney Patients to Costa Rica http://t.co/lbRF6W9mk2—...
Transplant Brokers in Israel Lure Desperate Kidney Patients to Costa Rica http://t.co/lbRF6W9mk2 — Joshua Schwimmer, MD (@joshuaschwimmer) August 19, 2014 Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - August 19, 2014 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
