The New Deal and Recovery, Part 19: War, and Peace
George SelginThanks to the Roosevelt Recession, in the spring of 1938 the New Deal ' s " Keynesians " finally found themselves in the saddle, displacing the planners, reformers, and trust-busters whose legislative efforts had already run out of steam some months before. The Keynesians ' rise was symbolized by the $3 billion spending program FDR announced during hisfireside chat that April.[1]But the crisis that gave Keynesians the upper hand also proved fatal to the Roosevelt administration ' s more ambitious plans, Keynesian or otherwise. Thanks to it, voters sent many Democrats, and New Deal democrats especially, packing...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
RTLS Helps Address Staff Duress
Realtime location systems (RTLS) have long been known to help hospitals with medical device management, but there is a new use-case that is growing in popularity and importance: addressing staff safety and duress. Through RLTS platforms, security teams can be alerted to the exact location of staff who need immediate assistance. As violence towards nurses and physicians increases, this will become a more important use-case for this technology.
Increasing Violence and Duress
A recent survey of healthcare workers (hospitals and long-term care facilities) found:
90% had experienced (or been in close proximity to) violence fro...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Security and Privacy Healthcare Scene Featured Kapil Asher Kontakt.io nurse violence patient workflow physician violence Real Time Location Services RLTS staff du Source Type: blogs
N-lactoyl-phenylalanine as a Link Between Exercise and Appetite Regulation
Exercise helps to downregulate appetite, among its many other beneficial outcomes. Researchers here point to raised levels of N-lactoyl-phenylalanine as an important part of this connection, one of a family of compounds formed as a result of exercise. In the present environment of prevalent obesity, a sizable amount of research into the biochemistry of exercise is directed towards its effects on consumption of food.
"Regular exercise has been proven to help weight loss, regulate appetite, and improve the metabolic profile, especially for people who are overweight and obese. If we can understand the mechanism by wh...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 23, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
How the Civica Insulin Announcement Could Be Disruptive to the PBM Kickback Scheme
Yours truly has written an article. I have given some more serious thought to theCivica insulin announcement made on March 3, 2022 (my article has a link to the original press release) and I think it could be very disruptive to what I have dubbed the " PBM Kickback Scheme " . You can read my assessment below, or athttps://www.slideshare.net/ScottStrumello/civica-insulin-assessment.Ironically, this month ' sNew England Journal of Medicine also has a very interesting (and similar) analysis of the exact same topic (the Civica insulin announcement) in its " Perspective " section in an article entitled " A Radical Treatment for...
Source: Scott's Web Log - June 10, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 Biocon Biosimilar biosimilars Civica Civica Rx CivicaRx insulin Semglee Viatris Source Type: blogs
Evidence paper: impact of investing in prevention on demand for statutory children ’s social care
National Children's Bureau -This paper sets out a case for investing in early family helps, improving outcomes and saving money. It studies the evidence on the association between expenditure on children ’s services, poverty and children’s social care demand. The evidence shows that increased spending on children’s social care preventative services (including family support and early help) has a positive impact on: Ofsted judgements; numbers of Children in Need; and rates of 16 to 17-year-olds starting periods in care. It concludes with a summary of further research on the association between household income and...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 20, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Source Type: blogs
Core PCE Inflation Has Been Slowing Down
Alan ReynoldsCore inflation slowed substantially in February and March to less than 0.3% a month (.029%). The core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index rose more slowly this March than it did a year ago (as shown by the blue bars in the graph).The backward ‐lookingyear ‐to‐year price change nonetheless still appeared misleadingly high this March (5.2%) because of rapid price increaseslast year– during the second and fourth quarters.The red line in the graph projects that if the February to March monthly pace continues for the next three months, the year ‐to‐year increase in co...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 2, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
GDP Inflation Includes Food, Energy and Export Prices
Alan ReynoldsAWall Street Journal editorial, “Rumors of Stagflation, ” describes accelerating inflation in the first quarter GDP report: “The GDP decline … coincided with an accelerating rise in prices. The GDP price index rose at an 8% annual rate on top of 7.1% in the previous quarter. The Fed’s preferred inflation measure, personal consumption expenditures , rose 7%, when its target is 2%.”The Fed ’s preferred inflation measure is really the “core” personal consumption index which excludes some but not all food and energy prices. The Core PCE was up 5.2% in the first quarter, nearly the same as 5% in t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 29, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 25th 2022
We examined central genetic and environmental lifespan regulators (putative anti-aging interventions, PAAIs; the following PAAIs were examined: mTOR loss-of-function, loss-of-function in growth hormone signaling, dietary restriction) for a possible countering of the signs and symptoms of aging. Importantly, in our study design, we included young treated groups of animals, subjected to PAAIs prior to the onset of detectable age-dependent phenotypic change. In parallel to our studies in mice, we assessed genetic variants for their effects on age-sensitive phenotypes in humans.
We observed that, surprisingly, many PAAI...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 24, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
FGF21 is Required for Protein Restriction to Extend Life in Mice
In today's open access research, scientists demonstrate that mice lacking FGF21 do not benefit from protein restriction, a dietary intervention that usually produces slowed aging and extended life span in that species. FGF21 has been the subject of a fair amount of attention from the research community in the context of aging in recent years, attention drawn to this gene because it is upregulated by the practice of calorie restriction, as well as by protein restriction. Artificially increasing FGF21 expression via genetic engineering has been shown to extend life in mice.
Like many aspects of cellular biochemistry a...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 20, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
More on the Safe Mitochondrial Uncoupling Compound BAM15
In this study, the aged mice increased their muscle mass by an average of 8 percent, their strength by 40 percent, while they lost more than 20 percent of their fat."
BAM15 improves many of the key determinants of health and aging, including: (a) removing damaged mitochondria, the power plants of the cell; (b) making more healthy mitochondria, and; (c) reducing "inflammaging," or age-related inflammation, linked to muscle loss.
Mitochondrial uncoupling attenuates sarcopenic obesity by enhancing skeletal muscle mitophagy and quality control
Sarcopenic obesity is a highly prevalent disease with poor ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 13, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Approaches to projecting future healthcare demand
Centre for Health Economics - To plan services and staff for the NHS, the government needs to know how much demand for services will rise and how much to spend on the NHS in future. These future estimates are known as projections: they indicate how much demand might rise or how much might be spent if certain assumptions hold true. This research paper aims to describe and critically assess alternative statistical methods for projecting future health care demand and expenditure.Research paperCentre for Health Economics - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 13, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs
Investigation into the management of PPE contracts
National Audit Office -According to this report, the Department of Health& Social Care (DHSC) continues to deal with the contract management issues caused by the need to purchase unprecedented volumes of PPE in 2020 due to Covid-19, with billions of pounds of taxpayers ’ money still at risk. It finds that since February 2020 DHSC and its NHS procurement partner, NHS Supply Chain Co-ordination Limited, have awarded almost 10,000 contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE). DHSC has so far spent £12.6 billion of the total £13.1 billion it expects to spend on almost 38 billion items of PPE. It also outlines how ...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 30, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 NHS finance Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
The Economics of Gasoline Tax Holidays
Peter Van DorenWhen gasoline prices rise, politicians search for a policy response to calm the motoring and voting public. A temporary suspension of federal and state gasoline taxes is one such policy. Would such a suspension reduce prices at the pump? The answer requires knowledge about how much of the gas tax is paid by consumers and how much is paid byproducers.Regardless of whether the legal responsibility to pay the tax falls on producers or consumers, economic theory suggests that the burden of taxes falls on the market participant whose behavior isless responsive to price. If consumer demand is more r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 22, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 17: The Keynesian Myth, Concluded
George Selgin(Previous installments of " The Keynesian Myth " arehereandhere.)Balancing ActAsRichard Adelstein (1991, p. 177) observes, far from taking Keynes ' s advice that he ratchet-up the federal government ' s deficit spending, " Roosevelt held fast to the ideal of a balanced budget and remained the chief opponent within the administration of an aggressive program of public works. " Instead of making spending on public works a central component of the New Deal ' s recovery program,Vladimir Kazak évich (1938, p. 476) explains, FDR regarded it as a mere " auxiliary to [that program ' s] other schemes. "Despite Rooseve...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 22, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 16: The Keynesian Myth, Continued
George Selgin(The first installment of " The Keynesian Myth " ishere.)All-American Money MakersAlthough conventional wisdom has it that Keynes considered government spending far more capable of ending the depression than monetary expansion, that certainly wasn ' t his view in 1931: during lectures he gave then at the University of Chicago, he disappointed faculty members who themselves favored more spending on public works over monetary easing by expressing the opposite opinion.Nor had Keynes lost faith in monetary policy in March 1933, when he published a series of articles in the LondonTimes,later republished as a pamphl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 18, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
