Death By Corona: What Are the Numbers?
This morning, we learned that actor Tom Hanks and his wife have contracted COVID-19 infection. Indeed, 43 famous persons have already been affected by the disease, including six Iranian leaders and four European soccer players. We might speculate that this reflects a single exposure event in Iran…or the fact that European athletes travel frequently in a high-incidence environment. Perhaps similar reasoning can be used to explain the striking variation in coronavirus death rates between countries.
As of March 12, 126,258 cases of COVID-19 had been reported worldwide; and 4,368 died of the disease – a case-fatal...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 12, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology Events General Source Type: blogs
Gender Prejudice Is More Common In Languages With Grammatical Genders
By Emma Young
Does the language that you speak influence what you think? And do languages that assign a gender to most nouns — such as French and Spanish — lead speakers to feel differently about women versus men, compared with languages that don’t — such as Chinese? Both questions have been hotly debated. But now a major new study, involving an analysis of millions of pages of text in 45 different languages from all over the world, concludes that gendered languages shape prejudice against women.
Gendered languages, such as French and Spanish, Russian and Hindi, dictate that most nouns are male or female. For exam...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Gender Language Source Type: blogs
Digital mental health taking off in Europe
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These 10 European tech startups want to help you improve your mental fitness (Silicon Canals):
“According to a report by WHO Euro (World Health Organisation Europe), in many western countries, mental health disorders are the major cause of disability, accounting for 30% to 40% of chronic sick leaves, and costing nearly 3% of GDP. In addition to this, the Health at a Glance: Europe report states that mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and drug use disorders affect over one in six people across the European Union.
Recent years have seen increased interest in the use of artificial intelligence and other d...
Source: SharpBrains - January 31, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology Ahum anxiety artificial intelligence depression disability disorders drug use disorders Flow Neuroscience Healios Humanoo Medigold Health mental health mental health disorde Source Type: blogs
American Healthcare Prices -Simply Outrageous
When it comes to healthcare spending, the U.S. is without peer. Consider the 20 countries making up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (called the OECD by the cool kids). The organization includes countries like Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, and the Czech Republic. Oh also Finland, France, Germany…you get the idea. It also […]
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 29, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: peter Tags: Health Care health care cost Peter Ubel syndicated Source Type: blogs
Human Freedom Waning in Many Countries
This article originally appeared on theFraser Forum on January 2, 2020. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Tanja Por čnik Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at 2019
I ' ve always been an optimist. I believe humans are basically good and that the nice guy will win eventually.After traveling 400,000 miles to 40 countries in 2019, helping government, academia, and industry, my view of the world has not changed.Despite our focus on the negative 24x7 news cycle, 2019 has been thebest year for humanity in history.My best memories, looking back at 2019:*Serving the Gates Foundation in South Africa and Northern India. Experiencing the rollout of technology enabled platforms that reduced HIV disease burden and improved diagnosis/treatment of tuberculosis.*Working with mayors a...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - December 31, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Meaningful Results from Meditation Research
What do we really know about meditation, other than the fact that the practice is touted for its apparent ability to help relaxation, ease stress, and quiet the mind? While the Western world has gravitated toward various forms of meditation in recent years, researchers haven’t quite caught up with studies to prove why and how meditation provides these benefits, along with others. Some researchers are working to change that, as evidenced by some of their newly published results.
Meditation Can Help You Make Fewer Mistakes
Michigan State University researchers studied how a single, 20-minute session of guided meditation pr...
Source: World of Psychology - December 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Mindfulness Research Meditation Source Type: blogs
Latest Exams Say Something Definitive: There's Little That's Definitive
Neal McCluskeyI dread the release of national standardized test scores because there is always big pressure to pull something out of them and declare, as quickly as possible, that they show your favorite reform works. In my younger days I ’m sure I succumbed. But as time has gone on, I’ve concluded that any given year’s big release is just one year of new data from which nothing can be definitively determined aboutwhy scores have moved as they have. There are simply too many variables at play, from family wealth, to spending, to school choice, to whatany given test asks, to conclude very much. So I hope you ’ll bea...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 3, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Mass Violence Facts from the National Council on Behavioral Health
We all have an idea in our heads of what a mass shooter looks like. But how accurate is it? Does anyone actually know? Who would you trust to find out? Is there any data on this?
Well, now there is. The National Council on Behavioral Health has recently completed a comprehensive report, “Mass Violence in America: Causes, Impacts, and Solutions.” Listen in as our host interviews the medical director of the National Council for an in-depth explanation of what this exhaustive document has revealed.
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Source: World of Psychology - November 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Anger Brain and Behavior Interview Mental Health and Wellness Podcast Policy and Advocacy Psychiatry Psychology Research The Psych Central Show Violence and Aggression Source Type: blogs
Butterfly Network Expands Applications for Smartphone-Connected Ultrasound: Interview
Butterfly Network, the digital health unicorn democratizing medical imaging, is continuing to add new applications for its handheld, single probe, smartphone-connected ultrasound technology. The Butterfly iQ, the multi-purpose pocket-sized ultrasound, won FDA clearance a couple years ago and earlier this year received the CE Mark, clearing it for distribution in Europe.
The innovation found within Butterfly iQ centers around the device’s matrix array of microelectromechanical (MEMS) sensors. As part of an integrated circuit, Butterfly iQ provides high-resolution performance comparable to that of a full-size u...
Source: Medgadget - November 14, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Exclusive News Ob/Gyn Pediatrics Radiology Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Wealth Tax Revenues
Chris EdwardsPresidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have each proposed an annual wealth tax on the richest Americans. There are so many flaws with such a tax that it probably would not pass Congress. If it did pass, it would likely be repealed soon after as the damage became obvious even to the politicians.The number of European countries with annual wealth taxes has fallen from 12 in 1990 to just 3 today. The Europeans found that wealth taxes induced avoidance, evasion, and capital flight,as I discuss here. The taxes were also full of exemptions and raised relatively little revenue.Let ’s look at th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Brain Training And Counting Bees: This Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
There’s not much evidence that brain training apps really improve our cognitive abilities – so why do so many people use them? Sabrina Weiss at Wired has the answers.
More colour-related research this week: people who live in grey, rainy countries far away from the equator are more likely to associate yellow with joy, reports Eva Frederick in Science. Most people in Finland, for instance, felt that yellow was related to the feeling of joy, while very few of those in countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia made that association.
Humans can...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs
Early announcement: 15 PhD contracts to open in 2020 in the framework of the COBRA (Conversational Brains) European project
COBRA is a Marie Sk łodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 programme. It aims to train early-stage researchers to accurately characterize and model the linguistic, cognitive and brain mechanisms that allow conversation to unfold in both human-human and huma n-machine interactions.The network comprises ten academic research centers on language, cognition and the human brain, and four industrial partners in web-based speech technology, conversational agents and social robots, in ten countries (Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Slovak...
Source: Talking Brains - October 9, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Our Golden Years? Research Into The Ups And Downs Of Retirement, Digested
By Emma Young
If you ever daydream about retirement, what do you picture? Lie-ins, instead of being woken by an alarm? Walks on a beach, in place of the morning commute? More time for beloved hobbies? Or perhaps endless open, solitary days, with nothing much to do…?
Retirement is what psychologists term a “major life transition”. As such, it’s regarded as a stressor that carries risks as well as potential rewards. Now that the number of retirees in many countries is soaring, so too is the number of studies into whether retirement is good for your mental and physical health — or not. This work certainly suggests ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Feature Health Mental health Source Type: blogs
The Gazillion Of Health Data You Can Measure
From SWOLF through EDA until heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, single-lead ECG, period tracking, sleep pattern analyzing: dozens of vital signs demonstrate that there’s no single square centimeter of the human body without quantifiable data. As an experiment, we tried to collect every trackable parameter to draw the boundaries of your “health data self”. Let us know if there’s anything left out.
Why is measurement useful? To know thyself
The famous ancient Greek aphorism was inscribed on a
wall in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the oracle, which was believed to tell
humans about the plan...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 26, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine Portable Diagnostics activity blood body brain breathing data fitness health data heart health heart rate lifestyle lung measure measurement meditation quantified self s Source Type: blogs
