The Jones Act Makes Little Sense in a Globalized World
Late last month that rarest of commodities, a new U.S.-built commercial transport ship, completed its maiden voyage by entering the harbor of San Juan, Puerto Rico to deliver its cargo. CalledEl Coqu í, the vessel is among the world ’s first hybrid roll-on/roll-off container vessels—a “ConRo” in industry parlance—that is powered by liquefied natural gas. Supporters of the Jones Act, a protectionist law which mandates that ships transporting goods between U.S. ports be U.S.-owned, crewed, flagged, and built, have pointed to El Coqu í as a symbol of the measure’s success. The President of the Shipbuilder’...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 20, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
The many ways to describe chest pain
There are at least 50 words in the Eskimo languages for snow, 25 in mainstream Swedish, and supposedly 180 or so in the Sami language of the nomadic inhabitants of the northernmost parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
But there are even more words than that for “chest pain” among my patients, many of whom do not consistently or fully comprehend the English phrase, “If you have chest pain, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.”
This Saturday I had three serious cases of chest pain, but of course, they all used different words, like “empty feeling,” “tightness,” and “pressure.”
“The medical ter...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 15, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/a-country-doctor" rel="tag" > A Country Doctor, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Cardiology Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Top 12 Social Companion Robots
What do you get if you combine the best features of a smartphone, a vacuum cleaner, and a pet? No, it’s not Dr. Frankenstein’s dog, but rather the new family members of the household of the future: social companion robots. They might do the chores, guard the house, teach the children and keep company to the elderly or people with health issues. Here are the current best examples on the market, but the best is yet to come.
The newest member of the family?
Joe Hawkins lives in London with his wife and three kids. Running a household and having a job would already be an immense task for the parents, but Laura, the mother,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 31, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Medical Robotics Top Lists AI companion robot digital digital health empathy future humanoid robot social companion technology Source Type: blogs
49 Nations Accept Asylees & Refugees at Higher Rates Than America
On numerous occasions, President Trump has described America ’s asylum laws as the most accepting—or, inhis words, “dumbest,” in the world. “When people, with or without children, enter our Country, they must be told to leave… only country in the World that does this!” hetweeted this month. But many other countries are much more accepting of asylum seekers than the United States is. In fact, the United States ranks 50th in the world in net increase in asylees, refugees, and people in similar situations as a share of its population since 2012.The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) publishesd...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 20, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
The Past, Present and Future of Health Care
OK, so it’s a tad of an ambitious title… but it was a talk that I gave in Finland last month. I had fun looking at the development of health and technology and suggesting a structure for the future. Plus I got to tell my Neil Armstrong joke. The talk was part of the Upgraded Life Festival in Helsinki and you can see some of the other speakers videos on their channel—Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
WTF Health | Self-Reported Patient Monitoring Startup from Finland, Kaiku Health
By JESSICA DAMASSA
WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of the health industry and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough? Check out more interviews at www.wtf.health.
Central to the ‘WTF Health’ ethos is the idea that around the world, there is a shared passion for creating a new future for healthcare — and that the less-positive ‘WTF moment’ is a shared experience, regardless of which country’s health system one is standing in.
So, I’m going around the world this year R...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 20, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Finland Jaakko Laukkanen Kaiku Health Nordics Oncology Patient Monitoring patient portal Startup Upgraded Life Festival Source Type: blogs
Health in 2 point 00, Episode 29
It’s Nicer in Nice, which is where Jessica DaMassa is hanging out as she asks me about health tech in Finland, Teladoc’s foreign foray and the trials and tribulations of Athenahealth’s Jonathan Bush in this edition of Health in 2 point 00 — Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health in 2 point 00 Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt athenahealth Finland health tech Teladoc Source Type: blogs
‘Immigrants’ Bring Patient Engagement Energy
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON
An Irish software expert who’d been helping companies sell on eBay walks into a room with a Slovenian inventor who’d built a world-class company in the “accelerator beam diagnostics market.” (Don’t ask.) What they share is not just foreign birth, but “immigration” to health care from other fields. Both have come to the MedCity Invest conference in Chicago seeking funding for start-ups focused on patient engagement. They’re not alone in their “immigrant” status, and their experience holds some important lessons.
Eamonn Costello, chief executive officer of patientMpower, works out ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health 2.0 digital health engineer Entrepreneurs Healthcare Immigration inventor mHealth Michael Millenson patient engagement software start-ups Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: May 19, 2018
Happy Saturday, sweet readers!
This week’s Psychology Around the Net covers how a parent’s mental health and parenting styles can affect the child’s ability to maintain friendships, reactions to the second season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, why it’s important CEO’s share mental health challenges they faced climbing the success ladder, and more.
(Oh, and maaaaaaaybe a little something about a certain couple’s wedding today!)
Meghan Markle’s Mom Quits Job at Mental Health Clinic: OK, OK, OK, I admit it. This isn’t exactly mental health news, per se, but cut me some slac...
Source: World of Psychology - May 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Bipolar Brain and Behavior Children and Teens Depression Industrial and Workplace Parenting Psychology Around the Net Research 13 Reasons Why Bipolar Disorder Cognitive Function Cognitive Impairment Emma McIlroy Entrepreneurs M Source Type: blogs
15-year study: stress did not increase risk of breast cancer among women with a genetic susceptibility to the disease
By Emma Young
The idea that stress increases the risk of breast cancer is a persistent one, despite a number of major large-scale findings to the contrary. “Over the past 40 years, women have been exposed to strong messages about the importance of ‘thinking positively’ and reducing stress in their lives, which can add to the burden of guilt in those who develop cancer, who feel they have somehow failed”, note the authors of a new prospective study of women in Australia, published in Psycho-Oncology. Their findings suggest that neither acute nor chronic stressors recorded over a three-year period influenced the like...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cancer Health Mental health Source Type: blogs
Nextstim ’s NBT Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Coming to U.S. to Treat Major Depression
Nextstim, based in Helsinki, Finland, is making its NBT Navigated Brain Therapy system available in the U.S. for treatment of Major Depressive Disorder. The device is used to deliver transcranial magnetic stimulation to the brain, a therapy that has shown to be effective for certain patients.
The system consists of the transcranial magnetic stimulator, stimulation coil, a stereo camera that’s used for tracking the location of the patient with respect to the coil, an electromyograph, computer and accompanying software, display, and a few other odds and ends.
Flashbacks: Nexstim NBS System 4 Delivers Transcranial Magn...
Source: Medgadget - May 10, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Cognitive training, diet, exercise, and vascular management seen to improve cognition even in people with genetic predisposition for dementia (APOE e4)
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Healthy lifestyle changes may be beneficial for cognition in older at-risk individuals even in the presence of APOE-related genetic susceptibility to dementia. Whether such benefits are more pronounced in APOE e4 carriers compared with noncarriers should be further investigated. The findings also emphasize the importance of early prevention strategies that target multiple modifiable risk factors simultaneously.
News in Context:
Study: 46.7 million Americans have Alzheimer’s Disease brain pathology today, so it’s urgent to prevent or at least delay progression to clinical disease
What are co...
Source: SharpBrains - May 7, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness APOE APOE ε4 allele apolipoprotein E at risk cardiovascular cognition Cognitive-impairment Cognitive-Training dementia diet exercise FINGER neuropsychological neuropsychological-tests Source Type: blogs
A big win for European honeybees
The European Union has voted to expand a 2013 ban on three neonicotinoid pesticides that harm/kill bees and other pollinators. The ban is now permanent. See: goo.gl/yWyJoL
This is a major victory for science AND for common sense. I mean, even if, for some weird reason, you are NOT in favor of banning pesticides, do you really want to be eating food that has been contaminated with toxic crap that kills bees and birds?
Didn’t think so…
Incredibly, the EU vote was not unanimous, as it SHOULD HAVE BEEN. I read that four countries voted against it, namely, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Hungary. Eight ot...
Source: Margaret's Corner - April 27, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Bayer honeybees NEONICOTINOID PESTICIDES Takeda Source Type: blogs
Smartphone App Detects Atrial Fibrillation Without Additional Devices
Finnish researchers at the University of Turku and the Heart Centre of the Turku University Hospital managed to use the accelerometers built into most smartphones to detect atrial fibrillation (Afib), an often serious but sometimes difficult to detect arrhythmia. The technology has been dubbed as gyrocardiography and it may rival electrocardiography (ECG) for detecting Afib in many use cases, particularly letting patients assess their own heart rhythms without relying on additional devices beyond smartphones that nearly everyone now has.
The researchers developed the technology over a number of years, initially starting ...
Source: Medgadget - April 3, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Medicine Net News Source Type: blogs
Testing Food for Gluten at Home: The Nima Sensor Review
For people living with gluten sensitivity or celiac disease, eating could be a torment. Can I eat that delicious-looking pastry claimed gluten-free? Does this pasta meal contain gluten? All these burning questions could get a fast response from the Nima gluten sensor which promises to measure anywhere in the world in minutes whether your food contains gluten. As the claim looked too good to be true, The Medical Futurist tested it. Thumbs up for the Nima team. We were highly impressed!
Food allergies, gluten sensitivity and celiac disease – an epidemic on the horizon?
Food allergy has been referred to as the second wave ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 28, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Food food allergy food sensors gluten health sensors Innovation Nima Personalized medicine review wearables Source Type: blogs
