Bitcoin Won ’t Rescue Russian Oligarchs From Sanctions
Matthew FeeneyProminent Russian oligarchs have found themselves on the receiving end ofsignificant sanctions following Russia ' s invasion of Ukraine. As a result of the invasion, the Russian ruble has collapsed and Russians are rushing to banks to withdrawrubles and American dollars. Amid all of this economic turmoil there has beenan uptick in cryptocurrency trades involving rubles and the Ukrainian hryvnia. As a means to preserve savings in the midst of economic turmoil, buying cryptocurrencies might sound appealing despite their well-known volatility. However, those buying Bitcoin in an attempt to avoid sanctions will q...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 2, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs
Moral Philosophy, and some pragmatism
The objective was to install a regime more congenial to North American and European interests, which in the view of the perpetrators included being friendly to Israel. What they got was social collapse and a horrific civil war, followed by a regime more friendly to Iran. There are a couple of points that might make a minor moral distinction between this war crime and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One is that the majority of the Iraq population did want an end to the Saddam Hussein regime, although they invaders didn ' t really understand anything about Iraq and in particular that there wasn ' t any common national ident...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 28, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
"You're That Guy!"
May, 2000. The French Quarter. Four of us staying at The Audubon Cottages, celebrating Lynn’s 50 th (Source: T. Scott)
Source: T. Scott - February 28, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: T Scott Source Type: blogs
" You're That Guy! "
May, 2000. The French Quarter. Four of us staying at The Audubon Cottages, celebrating Lynn ’s 50 th (Source: T. Scott)
Source: T. Scott - February 28, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: T Scott Source Type: blogs
Pithiatism Redux
BY MARTIN SAMUELS
Those of us in medicine have all seen the famous painting of the Tuesday afternoon lessons at the Salpȇtrière in Paris in the 19th century. In Pierre Aristide André Brouillet’s painting, one can clearly see the great professor, Jean-Martin Charcot, holding forth while the patient, Blanche Whitman, is being supported by a tall young man, Joseph Jules Francois Felix Babinski, the Chef de Clinique (the chief resident) and allegedly the favorite to succeed Charcot. He never did as he was failed repeatedly on the exam necessary to become a faculty member at the university by a jealous, xenophobic, anti...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Patients Physicians Andre Brouillet Martin Samuels Mental Health Patient Care Pithiatism Source Type: blogs
Facebook Stock Plunge Highlights Flaws of Targeted Antitrust Law
Ryan Bourne and Brad SubramaniamMarkets were roiled last week when Meta ’s (Facebook’s parent company) stock plunged and the company’s market capitalizationfell below $600 billion for the first time since early in the pandemic.This number was more symbolic than it might have seemed. In recent years, politicians have attacked ‘Big Tech’ companies for discriminating on their platforms in favor of their own products. Apparently, it is bad news that Apple’s iPhones come pre‐loaded with apps that compete with others on App Store, or that Google puts Maps results near the top of Google searches. Given this suppo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 14, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne, Brad Subramaniam Source Type: blogs
Exploring links between hearing loss, dementia and the ‘cognitive reserve’ — plus the role of hearing aids
How does your hearing affect dementia risk? (Alzheimer’s Research UK):
With around 1 million people affected by dementia in the UK, and 12 million people estimated to have a type of hearing loss, it’s never been more important to understand this link.
One way that hearing loss and dementia could be linked is through our blood system.
Certain types of dementia, particularly vascular dementia, are caused when there is less blood flow reaching the brain. This can damage our brain cells. Recent studies have also shown that the parts of our brain that process sounds (our auditory system) have many blood vessels and are vuln...
Source: SharpBrains - February 10, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Alzheimer’s cognitive-reserve dementia hearing aids hearing loss vascular dementia Source Type: blogs
Reimagine Care Secures $25 Million in Series A Funding to Drive Commercialization of Home-Centered, Value-Based Cancer Care
Prominent financial and strategic investors lead funding round focused on expanding technology-enabled services platform to transform cancer care delivery for patients, providers, and payers Reimagine Care, an innovative provider of technology-enabled services that supports oncologists in delivering high-quality, home-centered, value-based cancer care, today announced it has completed a $25 million capital raise led by […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Aaron Gerber CU Healthcare Innovation Fund Devin Carty Doug French Harlan Levine Health IT Funding Home Care Funding LRV Health Martin Ventures Reimagine Care Santé Ventures Source Type: blogs
Choice Could Depoliticize Battles over Schools
David BoazThe Washington Postreports—yetagain—that conservative parent/activists are running for and often winning seats on local school boards in order to change school policies on virtual learning, masks, and the kinds of books in school libraries. Regardless of what one thinks about the specific policy changes that school board candida tes may propose, the whole issue illustrates the problem of public schooling: that there must be one solution for a whole school district, a whole state, or even the whole country. Over the years parents, taxpayers, and other voters havedisagreed over many things: evoluti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 24, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Maestro Laparoscopy Assistance Platform: Interview with Anne Osdoit, CEO of Moon Surgical
Moon Surgical (formerly MastOR), is a medtech startup based in France. The company has developed the Maestro laparoscopy assistance platform, a two-armed robotic surgical assistant that can hold and manipulate standard laparoscopic instruments. The device is intended to be used at the bedside and provides the surgeon with greater flexibility and control, without the complexity and expense of some other surgical robots.
Medgadget spoke with Anne Osdoit, CEO, in July 2020, at which stage the company had just announced that they had attracted substantial funding to develop the technology. In the interim, Moon Surgical has ...
Source: Medgadget - January 18, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Surgery moon surgical Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: French Dogs on the Trail; Impact of Long Covid on the US Job Market
By David Tuller, DrPH Can Dogs Smell Compounds Associated with Host Response in Long Covid? It can be unwise to pay attention to research published on a pre-print server before it has been through a peer-review process. Although passing through peer-review is itself no guarantee of quality, the process represents at least one layer of […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - January 14, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller ME/CFS dogs Long Covid Source Type: blogs
Glossy Ibis in the Fens
Regular readers will know I’ve mentioned the Glossy Ibises that have seemingly taken up residence on our patch during the last year or more. There were three on the flooded farmland adjacent to Earith roundabout for a long time last winter. These are African/Mediterranean birds that seem to be spreading their wings more and more (see also Great White Egret, Little Egret, Cattle Egret). The Glossies we’re seeing here may well be hopping across from a breeding colony in Southern Spain, while the GWEs may be feeding on red crayfish in the lakes of northern France and then hopping across The Channel.
Anyway, ther...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 12, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
5 COVID-19 Discussions That Will Dominate 2022
Discussions That Will Dominate 2022 appeared first on The Medical Futurist. (Source: The Medical Futurist)
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Science Fiction vaccination pandemic vaccine pfizer fatigue booster Source Type: blogs
The COVID Omicron Surge (and Why I Got Vaccinated)
The objective arguments for and against vaccination are already pretty well presented by society, so I’m sure you’ve encountered an abundance of that by now. I’m not going to rehash those arguments here, partly because I don’t find that side the most interesting to consider.
What I did consider was which of the objective stories I found to represent the most interesting invitation to explore. Since I don’t have the means to personally prove or disprove anything about vaccination – it’s not like I have a bio lab in my garage – I could frame it as a question of whom to trust. But th...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Health Source Type: blogs
My 22 Oldest Jokes and Why they Still Matter in 2022
By IAN MORRISON
I have been studying American healthcare for more than 40 years and I have assembled a large number of one-liners over the years. As we enter 2022, I thought I’d share my 22 oldest jokes and why they still matter.
Coming to America
I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. In Glasgow, healthcare is a right, carrying a machine gun is a privilege. America got it the wrong way round.
Gun violence continues to ravage the United States. We have more guns than people. Kids get gunned down in school playgrounds and classrooms routinely. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy American healthcare healthcare quality Source Type: blogs
