Countries With Higher Interest Rates Have Higher Inflation
Alan ReynoldsA recent headline exclaimed: “Central Banks Should Raise Rates Sharply or Risk High‐Inflation Era,BIS Warns. ” The Bank for International Settlements is owned by 61 central banks, so they should know better than to equate higher interest rates with lower inflation.Countries with the lowestcentral bank interest rates (below zero) include Switzerland and Japan, according tothe BIS.Those with the highest policy rates include Argentina and Turkey, with rates of 49% and 14% respectively.Should we conclude that Argentina and Turkey are valiantly fighting inflation with high interest rates while Switzerland ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Longevity Conferences Coming up in Late 2022
Conferences are a measure of the health of a field; typically the more conferences one sees, the broader the efforts and the larger the funding. Most of the best conferences relating to aging research, and the longevity industry that has emerged from that research, feature an even mix of entrepreneurs, scientists, and investors. The networking at these conferences leads to the foundation of new ventures and seed funding for young ventures. This is important in a field in which there are many, many opportunities to make progress. Networking makes the world turn; it is an essential part of the messy, human process of bringin...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 30, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
Drinking coffee before shopping can lead to impulse buying
By Emily Reynolds
Those wanting to eat more healthily and save money are often advised not to go food shopping while hungry, the theory being that we make less prudent purchases when we’re more concerned with satisfying our immediate needs than thinking about long term goals. But how do other states of mind affect our purchases?
We’d probably not think anything of having a cup of coffee or a can of Coke before going shopping. But a new study, published in the Journal of Marketing, finds that caffeine may have a bigger impact than we think, with participants spending more and buying more things after a caffeinate...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 29, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Drugs Eating Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
June 16, 2022 Edition ----- The world is still upended and frankly I can see on end to the suffering and destruction. This will be a defining moment of the 2000s in my view. The world has lost its way sadly …. hard to see a way out. In the US the risk of decay and civil war seems to be rising and I am really mot sure in Joe Biden has any answers. Boris seems still to be there – no idea how. In OZ our new PM seems to be going well and we are seeing a period of calm. China still and issue but we seem to made friends with France – a very good thing! ----- Major Issues. ------ https://www.afr.com/wealth/personal-finance/...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 16, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Say it again:
This study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that, in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic, " a single-payer universal healthcare system would have saved 212,000 lives in 2020 alone. We also calculated that US$105.6 billion of medical expenses associated with COVID-19 hospitalization could have been averted by a Medicare for All system. " This is not exactly news. Health services researchers have been making these sorts of calculations for decades, for as long as I ' ve even been on the periphery of the business, and it always comes out the same. With a universal single payer system we can:I...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Will Digital Health Widen Or Close The Health Inequity Gap?
This study shows real-world positive results of peer-to-peer mentoring for diabetes patients.
Disruptive technologies have a tendency to widen gaps – before closing them
It is hard to predict the rate at which digital health becomes reality for everyone. But thinking back to what we know about former examples of how disruptive – not that anyone called them that then – technologies spread, we see a tendency that they tend to widen the gap at first but close them later.
From electricity to washing machines, from polio vaccines to mobile phones – there was a period for each when the bene...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Digital Health Research E-Patients Medical Education Telemedicine & Smartphones Source Type: blogs
Duroziez ’s murmur : A simple bedside marker of diastolic descending Aortic flow reversal & VTI
Murmurs are audible noises from within the Heart or vascular tree when blood flow loses its laminar flow and becomes turbulent. There are many factors responsible for it (Recall Reynold’s number ).It is obvious, that when there is hyperdynamic circulation, even in physiology one may hear a murmur. Pregnancy is a classical example and Innocent (still murmur) in children is another one.
Duroziez murmur: A brief history
In this post let us dwell on something about a classical murmur that occurs in the peripheral circulation away from the action-packed organ heart. It was originally described by French physician Dr...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - June 14, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Aortic regurgitation Uncategorized cardiology research topic cardiology thesis topic classification of murmur double crural murmur mechanisim of Duroziez murmur peripheral signs of aortic regurgitation Source Type: blogs
How Inflation Erodes Financial Privacy
Nicholas AnthonyThe hidden tax of inflation has been a little less hidden lately. From grocery stores to gas stations, people are seeing prices rise before their eyes. Yet it’s not just our wallets that are paying the price. For 50 years, inflation has helped the U.S. government increase financial surveillance under the Bank Secrecy Act by silently increasing the activities banks must report in their effort to counter financial crime.One of the key requirements of the 1970Bank Secrecy Act was that banks must report to the government any time a customer’s financial activity crosses any number of thresholds. For ins...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Nicholas Anthony Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 18: The Recovery So Far
George Selgin(Although my contributions to this series have so far been more-or-less in their proper order, this one isn ' t: it occurred to me only relatively recently that it would be worthwhile to take stock of the overall progress of the recovery up to the outbreak of the Roosevelt Recession before delving into that episode. Had I done this in the first place, this installment would be Part 10 of the series, with the present Part 10 and all subsequent installments moved up a notch. –Ed.)When it struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act in January 1936, the Supreme Court dropped the final curtain on the original New...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
A little holiday
Well, actually, for us it’s a BIG holiday: we’re driving to the Loire Valley tomorrow and will be traveling around the Tours and Blois area, visiting castles and pretty medieval towns for about 10 days. Bliss!
She hated the collar, but she didn’t complain, especially after she found a new…friend with a similar collar…
News snippets: 1. Petunia was sterilised last week and is doing beautifully. She is such a sweetie (unless you try to put her inside the cat carrier, in which case she goes absolutely ballistic and twists and turns and…well, those of you who have cats will know what I mean,...
Source: Margaret's Corner - May 26, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - reports - 25th May 2022
Communique from the Academie Nationale de Medecine (French National Academy of Medicine) about lingual phrenotomy (frenotomy) in newborns and infants. This page in French, but there is a press release in English. Birthrights inquiry into racial justice in maternity care.All Party Parliamentary Group for Women in the Penal System have produced a report into women ' s health and wellbeing in prisons, which does discuss pregnancy and childbirth. Press release from the Howard League;APPG report itself (via the Howard League).Acknowledgements: Le Monde, for the first, Rotherham hospital library...
Source: Browsing - May 25, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
#HealthTechDeals Episode 28 | Alan; HealthMap Solutions; Sidekick Health; Dialogue & Tictrac
It’s Friday 13th, the unluckiest day and many on the stock market were feeling it. But there were some deals. Alan in France raises 183m Euros, HealthMap Solutions gets $25m for kidney care, Icelandic Sidekick Health gets $55m for DTx & Dialogue buys Tictrac for $43m US.
–Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Tech Deals Alan Dialouge HealthMap Solutions Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt sidekick health Tictrac Source Type: blogs
The Future Of Vision And Eye Care
3D printed digital contact lenses, bionic eye implants, augmented reality: the future of vision and eye care is full of science fiction-sounding innovations. Here is where digital health will take ophthalmology in the future!
More than 80 percent of perception comes through vision
Researchers estimate that 80-85 percent of our perception, learning, cognition, and activities are mediated through vision. Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 percent, touch 1.5 percent and taste 1 percent. Don’t you think that’s possible? Renowned scholars, L.D. Ros...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Augmented Reality Cyborgization 3d printing AI diabetes digital digital health future guide Healthcare Innovation Personalized medicine technology vision eye care ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Women, partner violence and pain
As the potential for greater repression of women’s autonomy grows (Afghanistan, United States, Mexico), along with racist and misogynist statements from business leaders (DGL CEO Simon Henry) it’s timely to look at pain in women. We already know that more women than men present with persistent pain (Blyth, n.d.), while women who are seen for their pain are more often misdiagnosed, offered psychiatric medication or psychological intervention only and have their experiences dismissed as “hysterical, fabricated, or nonexistent” (Samulowitz, et al., 2018). My daughter, when attending Emergency Departmen...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - May 8, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Professional topics Research Science in practice biopsychosocial gender Health pain management partner violence Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 9th 2022
In conclusion, although several favorable effects are obtained in our heterochronic non-myeloablative transplantation model, additional optimization is needed for better rejuvenation effects.
More on GPNMB as a Target for Senolytic Therapies to Clear Senescent Cells
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/05/more-on-gpnmb-as-a-target-for-senolytic-therapies-to-clear-senescent-cells/
You might recall that researchers recently demonstrated that vaccination against GPNMB is a senolytic strategy, reducing the harmful burden of senescent cells in aged tissues by directing the immune system to destroy these ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 8, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
