The consequences of the coronavirus pandemic are eternal
She was rather calm during her visit. It was the first time we’d met, and she was establishing primary care with our office and me. We were both delighted to learn she was from a small Georgia town not too far from where I previously practiced, and we quickly reminisced about the slow pace, lack […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/earl-stewart-jr" rel="tag" > Earl Stewart, Jr., MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Fight Against COVID-19 Aided by Sepsis Researchers
Spike proteins on the surface of a coronavirus. Credit: David Veesler, University of Washington.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from many areas of biomedical science have worked together to learn how this new disease affects the human body, how to prevent its spread, and how to treat it. Severe cases of COVID-19 and cases of sepsis share many symptoms. Sepsis is the body’s overactive and extreme response to an infection. It’s unpredictable and can progress rapidly. Without prompt treatment, it can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, and death.
Sepsis has similarities with some cases of COVI...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - January 13, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Injury and Illness COVID-19 Infectious Diseases Research Roundup Scientific Process Sepsis Source Type: blogs
Election Results in Georgia Open Potential Path to Immigration Reform: Here Are Some Ideas
ConclusionThere are many other immigration reforms that Congress should consider, but the above are a very quick summation of some reform ideas that my colleagues and I have written about elsewhere and that we ’ve discussed for years. Even a slight liberalization of immigration would be very positive for the United States so politicians should not hesitate to take it. The political situation will change in the coming months and years, but right now there is a lot of momentum for the new Congress and Pre sident to pursue reform. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Reflections on the President ’s Conduct
Robert A. LevyBecause the election was close, fair ‐minded persons acknowledge that President Trump had every legal right to investigate possible irregularities. If he uncovered significant fraud, he would and should have taken appropriate steps to challenge the outcome. But the President and his surrogates opted instead to fabricate claims tha t he had already won the election, the process was totally corrupt, and Americans could not trust the results. Therefore, the Trumpists insisted, millions of voters should be disenfranchised by replacing their chosen electors with alternative slates to be designated by state le...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Robert A. Levy Source Type: blogs
Impeachment, the 25th Amendment and Trump ’s Final Days
Gene HealyWe started the week with an impeachment debate that looked like a rewarmed version of the onewe had last year. “Readthe transcript!”: when President Donald Trump got on the phone Saturday to lean on Georgia election officials, was it another “perfect call” or a second, sordid shakedown attempt?By yesterday afternoon we were in entirely new territory: a violent mob storming and trashing the Capitol, four dead, guns and explosivesseized, Congress evacuated, Vice President Mike Pence fleeing a mobinspired by the president ’s tweets. “We will never concede,” Trump fumedat the pre ‐riot rally...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 7, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Gene Healy Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang, Episode 37, Jan 7
Episode 37 of “The THCB Gang” was live-streamed on Thursday, Jan 7.
You can see it below! Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) was joined by regulars: data & privacy expert Deven McGraw, (@Healthprivacy), Patient entrepreneur extraordinaire Robin Farmanfarmaian (@RobinFF3) & consultant/author Rosemarie Day (@Rosemarie_Day1). Balancing them out will be the Y chromosome owners futurists Ian Morrison (@seccurve), Jeff Goldsmith & THCB regular Kim Bellard (@Kimbbellard)
Other than than the Duck Dynasty insurrection & mob riot in the Capitol, the Georgia senate race, most of the world on COVID lockdown, the vacc...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang, Episode 37, Jan 7 – LIVE 1pm PT- 4pm ET
Episode 37 of “The THCB Gang” will be live-streamed here 1pm PT / 4pm ET on Thursday, Jan 7. You can see it below!
Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) will be joined by regulars: data & privacy expert Deven McGraw, (@Healthprivacy), Patient entrepreneur extraordinaire Robin Farmanfarmaian (@RobinFF3) & consultant/author Rosemarie Day (@Rosemarie_Day1). Balancing them out will be the Y chromosome owners futurists Ian Morrison (@seccurve), Jeff Goldsmith & THCB regular Kim Bellard (@Kimbbellard)
Other than than mob riot in the Capitol, the Georgia senate race, most of the world on COVID lockdown, the vaccine...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Immigration Restrictionists are Undermining American Institutions
Alex NowrastehBenjamin Powell and I wrote our bookWretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions to address the argument that liberalized immigration will undermine the very American institutions that created economic prosperity that attracted immigrants here in the first place. Immigrants generally come from countries with political, cultural, and economic institutions that are less conducive to economic growth than those in the developed world. The fear is that they ’d bring those anti‐growth institutions with them. Thus, as their argument goes, the estimated enormouseconomic gain...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 5, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
The lamest loser
I ' ve got to say, Hugo Chavez, George Soros and Joe Biden have got to be the cleverest and most powerful people in world history. Even while out of power, and up against the most brilliant and winningest president of all time, they were able to perpetrate the mother of all fraudulent elections. The evidence was invisible to Trump ' s toady AG William Barr, the Republican governors of Georgia and Arizona, hundreds of judges including ones the loser president appointed himself, all 9 Supreme Court judges, and Fox News. Like I say, the lamest loser and most feckless fool of all time. I guess he got tired of ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 15, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge Showcase Event — WEDNESDAY 4pm ET!
After receiving applications from 115 people (across every continent except Antarctica!) and 50 organizations, including 35 academic institutions, the judges have declared DeepOutbreak, a team with members from Georgia Tech, the University of Iowa, and Virginia Tech as the winner of COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge.
Second place was awarded to K&A, a Russia-based team working with the World Bank and the Higher School of Economics. $75,000 in prizes will be awarded to the winners.
The winners and the other three finalists will present their prototypes at the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge Showcase on Wednesday, D...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Chrissy Farr Facebook Indu Subaiya Symptom Data Challenge Source Type: blogs
Coping With Remote Working During Covid-19: The Latest Research, Digested
By Emma Young
Covid-19 has changed our working lives, perhaps for good. Home-working is now common, and many of us have been doing it for months. With changing rules and guidelines, some of us have even gone from home-working to socially distanced office-working, to working back at home again. So what do we know about how these changes are affecting our mental health — and what can we do to make our new working lives better?
How are we feeling?
In January 2019 (pre-Covid-19), 35% of UK employees surveyed for the CIPD (a professional human resources body) reported that work had a positive impact on their...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Coronavirus Feature Mental health Occupational Source Type: blogs
What States Can Do to Address Out-of-Network Air Ambulance Bills
Erin C. Fuse Brown (Georgia State University), Alex McDonald (Georgia State University), Ngan Nguyen (Georgia State University), What States Can Do to Address Out-of-Network Air Ambulance Bills, 48 J. L. Med.& Ethics 462 (2020): Out-of-network air ambulance bills are... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 28, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Information for the Common Good in Mass Torts
Alexandra D. Lahav (University of Connecticut), Elizabeth Chamblee Burch (University of Georgia), Information for the Common Good in Mass Torts, DePaul L. Rev. (2021, Forthcoming): In recent years, judges have privileged confidentiality over transparency in discovery, especially in large scale... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 27, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Demarcation Problem
" Demarcation " is the fancy term used by philosophers of science for making the distinction between science and basically every other kind of belief or kind of statement. Since science claims to be about distinguishing what is true, it also comes down to what is basically another word for epistemology, the branch of philosophy which deals with how we decide what is true. But by reframing epistemology as the effort to define science, philosophers have essentially made the word " science " a synonym for epistemological validity. I ' m going to be very careful not to get too deep into the weeds here. Philosophers pulp w...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 25, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
President Biden's biggest challenge?
He ' ll have plenty, to be sure. He ' ll need to rebuild the hollowed-out cabinet departments; reverse the gutting of environmental, workplace safety, and consumer protection regulations; repair relations with allies around the world; fix immigration policy; and get the vaccine distributed quickly and fairly. The latter will happen eventually, and most of those items can be accomplished by executive order. However, the biggest challenges facing the country are the interconnected, if not essentially contiguous problems of repairing, rebuilding, and modernizing the nation ' s infrastructure and eliminating carbon emissions, ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 23, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
