Climate Change is not an ‘ Equal Opportunity ’ Crisis
Sam Aptekar
Phuoc Le
By PHUOC LE, MD and SAM APTEKAR
In the last fifteen years, we have witnessed dozens of natural disasters affecting our most vulnerable patients, from post-hurricane victims in Haiti to drought and famine refugees in Malawi. The vast majority of these patients suffered from acute on chronic disasters, culminating in life-threatening medical illnesses. Yet, during the course of providing clinical care and comfort, we rarely, if ever, pointed to climate change as the root cause of their conditions. The evidence for climate change is not new, but the movement for climate justice is now emerging on...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Climate Change equal opportunity Phuoc Le Sam Aptekar Source Type: blogs
Causes of Wealth Inequality
Chris EdwardsElizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to blast wealth inequality. But the twin leftists seem oblivious that wealth inequality may reflect starkly differing causes, as I discuss in anew Fox Business op-ed.The Warren-Sanders broad-brush denunciations are useless as a guide to policy because high wealth inequality may reflect either the growth benefits of capitalism or the negative effects of cronyism and crowding out.Capitalism here meanseconomic freedom, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Cronyism means corruption and narrow benefits to particular groups. Crowding out means the displacement of private sav...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Why Ethiopia Sailed While Zimbabwe Sank
At a time when outside powers are calibrating how they respond to political transitions around the world, the divergent paths of Ethiopia and Zimbabwe illustrate their precariousness and offer lessons for how the international community can support democratization processes in Africa and beyond. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 8, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Hilary Matfess; Alexander H. Noyes Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 550
Happy July everyone! Here is our first case of the month by Idzi Potters and theInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. The following objects were seen in a concentrated wet prep of a stool specimen from an international adoptee from Ethiopia. They measure approximately 60 micrometers in greatest dimension. Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - July 1, 2019 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Speaking out about practicing medicine in Ethiopia
I am a young physician practicing medicine in the“motherland” of God-gifted Ethiopia, which is located in eastern Africa, south of the Sahara Desert. I want to share my personal story, as well as to expose some of the serious problems facing physicians and patients in my country. I started medical school, which requires the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 11, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/yohannes-mengistu" rel="tag" > Dr. Yohannes Mengistu < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
10 Outstanding Companies for Women ’s Health
The women’s health technology or so-called femtech
market has been on the rise for the last couple of years, but it has mainly
revolved around fertility and pregnancy. We believe that female health topics reach
far beyond such traditional issues and players should concentrate more on
menopause, endometriosis, or mental health, just to name a few areas. Thus, we
tried to collect companies which are on top of their game in the conventional
fertility and/or pregnancy area, but also start-ups and ventures who are
looking way beyond that. Here’s our guide to 10 outstanding companies in
women’s health.
The women’s hea...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 18, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Business Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Telemedicine & Smartphones companies company digital digital health digital health technologies femtech health technology Innovation market women women's health Source Type: blogs
Private Satellite Firm Aids Boeing 737 Investigation
Canada privatized its air traffic control (ATC) system in 1996. Today, Nav Canada is on the leading edge of ATC innovation worldwide. With Iridium, Nav Canada co-foundedAerion in 2012, which produces satellite-based tracking of global airliner movements. This is the future of air traffic control as it promises greater safety, fewer delays, savings of fuel, and more efficient use of airspace. The U.S. ATC system is not an investor in this revolutionary project.Our government-run ATC is falling behind the privatized systems in Canada and the United Kingdom. ATC is a high-tech business, yet we run our system as anold-fashione...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Radiology in Africa
By SAURABH JHA MD
What are the challenges of getting imaging to Africa? In this episode of Radiology Firing Line, I convene a panel of experts in Africa. We discuss the challenges of bringing new technology to Africa, the new need for imaging driven by public health gains and increased longevity of Africans, the insalubrious practice of “equipment dumping”, amongst others.
Panelists:
Kassa Darge, MD PhD, is Professor of Radiology and Radiologist-in-Chief at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is also Honorary Professor of Radiology in the Department of Radiology at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Radiology Firing Line Podcasts RogueRad Africa equipment dumping Global Health JACR Saurabh Jha Source Type: blogs
Arms Sales: Pouring Gas on the Fires of Conflict
Do arms sales cause war? Or do wars cause arms sales? Critics of arms salesoften argue that selling weapons abroad fuels conflict. And indeed, one can point to one or more sides using American weapons in many recent conflicts including Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Skeptics argue,on the other hand, that weapons don ’t start the fire and that conflicts would arise whether or arms exporters like the United States sell weapons abroad.The debate has important implications for foreign policy. If selling or transferring weapons abroad makes conflict more likely, or intensifies conflicts already in process, then the United States sho...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 2, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall Source Type: blogs
Africa Is A Hotspot For Digital Health
Digital health in Africa is booming, and that’s the greatest news since the invention of broadband internet connection. The flourishing of disruptive solutions might go down to the fact that instead of relying on traditional infrastructure and a conventional healthcare system, populations in Africa need cheap, easily accessible and genuinely problem-solving technologies. Why, when and how have they got there? Read on!
Disrupted infrastructure should be …
Africa has the world’s worst health record. The birth-continent of the homo sapiens bears one-quarter of the global disease burden, yet it spends only 1 percent of t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 5, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy 3d printing Africa digital digital health digital technology Innovation mhealth mobile mobile health smartphone Source Type: blogs
Profiles of Every Terrorism Vetting Failure in the Last 30 Years
In my newpolicy analysis released today, I identify 65 vetting failures where the visa vetting system allowed a foreign-born person to enter the United States as an adult or older teenager when they had already radicalized —80 percent occurred before 9/11. Just 13 vetting failures have occurred since 9/11, and only one—the last one (Tashfeen Malik)—resulted in any deaths in the United States. That’s one vetting failure for every 29 million visa or status approvals, and one deadly failure for every 379 million visa or status approvals from 2002 to 2016.As I note, 9/11 is reasonable point of analysis because after th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 003 Stiff in the Mouth
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
aka Tropical Travel Trouble 003
A 65 yr old woman from Ethiopia is visiting her grandchild for the first time in Europe. She is normally fit and well, physically active with a small-holding in Ethiopia. She does not take any medication and cannot remember the last time she saw a doctor. She presents to you with difficulty chewing 3 days after arriving in the UK. She describes it as being “stiff in the mouth”
Questions:
Q1. What is the differential diagnosis an...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine tetanus Source Type: blogs
Prior Presidents ’ “Travel Bans” Are Different From President Trump’s Ban
President Trump ’stravel ban Proclamation that bans immigration and travel from seven countries (and limits it from an eighth) is based on authority in immigration law that other presidents have used. But all but one of these bans were quite different from President Trump ’s. They banned at most a few thousand—almost always specifically named—individuals based on their personal conduct, not their nationality. In the one exception, not all nationals were banned, and the requirements to end the ban were very clear. Neither of which can be said for the Trump ban.Different in ScaleNo president has attempted to ban as m...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 16, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier 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
Fighting For Breath: Access To Oxygen Therapy Should Not Be A Matter Of Location Or Luck
In June, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its Model List of Essential Medicines and List of Essential Medicines for Children to include an additional indication for oxygen therapy, specifying that it should be used to treat patients with dangerously low levels of oxygen in the blood (hypoxemia). The new indication is the result of a proposal led by my organization, PATH (an international nonprofit organization leading in global health innovation), in collaboration with partners and expert advisers. It helps prioritize oxygen therapy for patients with this dangerous condition.
The decision—and the need for ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: David C. Kaslow Tags: Health Equity Public Health hypoxemia Model List of Essential Medicines oxygen therapy PATH United4Oxygen World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
