The First Openly Gay White House Press Secretary
David BoazI know a lot of people get tired of “firsts”–first black this, first Asian‐American that. But today’s papersreport that Karine Jean ‐Pierre will be the first black person and first openly gay or lesbian person to be the White House press secretary, and that’s worthy of notice. (Also surely the first Haitian‐born press secretary and quite possibly the first native French speaker.)For roughly the first two centuries of American independence, no black or gay person and no woman could aspire to such a senior position. In 1993 Dee Dee Myers became the first woman to hold the press se...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 6, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
#HealthTechDeals Episode 27: Levels, Waltz Health, Safety Wing & Implicity
In this episode of #HealthTechDeals, Jess is enjoying Cinqo de Mayo in an Addams Family-themed hotel where she is playing “the mummy” introducing health tech companies coming back from the dead. There’s gossip about Amazon’s pharmacy operation over supplying insulin, and there’s deals for Levels ($38m) in CGM analysis, Waltz Health ($35m) in pharmacy search, Safety Wing ($25m) for health insurance for nomads & Implicity ($23m) doing cardiac implantable monitoring in France. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Deals HealthTechDeals Implicity] Jess DaMassa Levels Matthew Holt Safety Wing Waltz Health Source Type: blogs
How Much of Late Life Cancer is Easily Avoidable?
A range of data on the benefits produced by simple health interventions in late life suggests that many people are self-sabotaging to a point at which a significant fraction of age-related disease and mortality might be legitimately thought of as being self-inflicted. To pick one example, if programs of moderate exercise improve health and reduce mortality in old people, which they do, then the conclusion must be that older people are harming themselves by not undertaking sufficient exercise.
Cancer is one of the more important classes of age-related condition. It is age-related for a range of reasons, such as risin...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 4, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Why India Is Non ‐aligned on Russia
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria AiyarThere are many reasons why India has abstained in UN votes on Ukraine rather than join the West in condemning Russia.First, India prizes its non ‐aligned traditions.Second, India has always viewed Russia (and the USSR earlier) as an old reliable friend and supporter on Kashmir that has always vetoed UN resolutions unfavorable to India.In 1971 the USSR had signed a virtual mutual assistance treaty with India that ensured China did not intervene in the 1971 Indo‐Pak war over Bangladesh’s independence.India also believes strong ties with Russia will help check Chinese excesses in S...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 26, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar Source Type: blogs
Flu Is Making Comeback. Here ’s What We Can Do About It
Jeffrey A. SingerAfter being nearly absent in 2020 and 2021, influenza cases are making a comeback. In fact, cases are up ‐tickingunusually late in the year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)reported on April 15 that the majority of cases are H3N2, “antigenically different from the vaccine reference viruses.” This explains why the latest flu vaccine is only16 percent effective in reducing the chances of a moderate to severe infection. As of April 15, the CDC reported at least 4.3 million flu illnesses, 42,000 hospitalizations, and 2,500 deaths from the flu.Public health experts attribu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 18, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Piketty ’s Erroneous Data
Chris EdwardsMany people are interested in the distribution of income and wealth and how it may have changed over time. But there is no single and undisputed source for such data. Rather, economists construct historical time series using partial information and many assumptions.French economist Thomas Piketty and colleagues have for years been publishing data showing extreme changes in top 1 percent income and wealth shares in the United States over the decades. Many news outlets report the information unquestioned, despite evidence that Piketty is sloppy with data and makes bad assumptions that throw his calculations...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 13, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Ukraine ’ s Secret Weapon – “ Moral Superiority ”
BY MIKE MAGEE
Two hundred and ten years ago, on September 7, 1812, a Putinesque commander, narrowly won a battle, but lost a war and entered a downward cycle that ended his reign. The battle was the Battle of Borodino, a town on the river Moskva, 70 miles west of Moscow. The commander was Napoleon.
The facts are clear-cut: Napoleon arrived with 130,000 troops, including his 20,000 Imperial Guards, and 500 guns. Opposing him were 120,000 Russians with 600 guns. The battle engaged from 6 AM to Noon. The French took 30,000 casualties, while the Russians lost 45,000 men, but survived to fight another day.
As Leo Tolst...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Mike Magee Ukraine Source Type: blogs
Medication Reconciliation and Pharmacovigilance with Dr. Clement Goehrs
Long time readers may remember that we covered the announcement of a French company, Synapse Medicine, launching their Medication Reconciliation and Pharmacovigilance solutions in the US. I always find it exciting when the US can benefit from technology and solutions that are already having an impact internationally. At the HIMSS 2022 conference, I was able […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Dr Clement Goehrs France Healthcare AI Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2022 HIMSS22 Medication Reconciliation Pharmacovigilance Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 26th March, 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.-----https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/55-of-telehealth-providers-frustrated-with-overblown-patient-expectations55% of Telehealth Providers Frustrated With Overblown Patient ExpectationsProviders also cited their ability to provide quality care and technical difficulties as among their top frustrations with telehealth, a new survey shows.ByAnuja VaidyaMarch 18, 202...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Facial Recognition Debate Lessons from Ukraine
Matthew Feeney and Rachel ChiuAccording toReuters, Ukrainian officials are using the facial recognition search engine Clearview AI to “uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation and identify the dead.” In the United States, Clearview AI has made headlines in reporting on law enforcement, with civil liberties experts raising well‐founded concerns about the proliferation of facial recognition technology (FRT) in poli ce departments. These concerns have prompted calls for the outrightban of facial recognition. Yet the Reuters article serves as a reminder that FRT has many applications beyond policing, and...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 17, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney, Rachel Chiu Source Type: blogs
#HealthTechDeals Episode 16: Doctolib, House Rx, SmithRx, Synapse Medicine, and Kintsugi
May the luck of the Irish be with the health tech sector and may everybody’s valuation go back to where it was for the St. Patrick’s Day episode of Health Tech Deals! In today’s episode, Jess asks me about Doctolib’s €500 million raise with a massive €5.8 billion valuation – this is a doctor booking service and more in Europe. We also cover specialty pharma company House Rx’s $25 million raise, bringing their total up to $30 million, SmithRx’s $27 million raise for its flat-fee PBM, Synapse Medicine’s $28 million raise doing medication management, and Kintsugi’s $20...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Tech Deals Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt #HealthTechDeals doctolib House Rx Kintsugi SmithRx Synapse Medical Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 15: The Keynesian Myth
George Selgin(The first of an essay in 3 installments.)InThe Money Makers, his 2015 book on the New Deal and its aftermath, Eric Rauchway says that FDR " conducted an active monetary and fiscal program of recovery …working along lines suggested by Keynes. " His book ' s subtitle in turn declares that between them, " Roosevelt and Keynes ended the Depression. " Other popular accounts likewise declare that " [t]he beliefs of Keynes and FDRproved successful at alleviating the Great Depression" and eventhat" Without John Maynard Keynes, FDR ’s New Deal may never have happened. "In this series, in contrast, I ' ve argued th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Original or Generic Drugs: Mathematical Modelling of the Political Choice
Abdou Khadre Dit Jadir Fall (Universit é de Paris), Original or Generic Drugs: Mathematical Modelling of the Political Choice, SSRN (2022): The introduction of generic drugs has been strongly contended, especially in France where Sanofi and BMS-UPSA lobbied and obtained a... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 6, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Having a sense of meaning is less important for your happiness if you ’re rich
By Emily Reynolds
Searching for meaning is something many of us experience throughout our lives: finding something to strive for that gives shape, direction, and purpose to the things we choose to do. For some, this meaning is religious; some political; some interpersonal. And having a sense of meaning can bring us happiness (or, if we lack meaning, unhappiness).
A new study to be published in Emotion looks at the relationship between meaning and happiness in the context of financial resources. Rhia Catapano from the University of Toronto and colleagues find that meaning is a far weaker predictor of happiness for ri...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Money The self Source Type: blogs
Bringing Medication Reconcilliation and Pharmacovigilance from France
One thing I’ve learned as I’ve traveled the world is that many of the challenges we face in healthcare are the same around the world. Certainly, there are different ways that healthcare is paid for which provides unique challenges, but so many of the problems we face in the US are things that healthcare everywhere […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Adverse Events Healthcare AI Healthcare NLP Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2022 HIMSS22 MedDRA Medication Reconcilliation Medication S Source Type: blogs
