Symposium Hosted by Georgia State University College of Law - PFAS Dangers, Requirements, and Strategies (PFAS); March 29, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.
As journalists, regulators, and litigants across the country turn their attention to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS),... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 15, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Will ‘DoorDash for Lab Draws’ Startup Sprinter Health Be What Speeds Up Virtual Care’s Growth?
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Sprinter Health bills itself as “the “DoorDash for lab draws” – sending nurses and phlebotomists out to patients’ homes to collect blood samples and urine samples, check vitals, and even perform Covid tests. Their model has been received with some skepticism (most notably by my Health Tech Deals co-host and legendary health care curmudgeon Matthew Holt) so we get down to the bottom of what’s REALLY going on with CEO Max Cohen.
The long-term play is NOT to just rove the streets like some nomadic Quest Diagnostics; it’s to support the emerging market of virtual care and tel...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech WTF Health Accel Andreesen Horowitz doordash general catalyst Google Ventures Jess DaMassa Max Cohen Sprinter Sprinter Health Source Type: blogs
Matthew ’s health care tidbits: The Stupidity Vaccine
Each week I’ve been adding a brief tidbits section to the THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB that week (Sign up here!). Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt
For my health care tidbits this week, I think we need a new vaccine. We need one that prevents stupidity.Look I get that some people don’t think the flu vaccine is effective and don’t think the effects are too bad, so they don’t get one every year. Many people don’t get a vaccine for shingles. But as someone who had shingles long before the recommended ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt vaccines Source Type: blogs
Understanding bad character: Research into the Dark Triad, digested
By Emma Young
Twenty years ago, two Canadian psychologists published a paper that instantly captured the imagination of researchers — and reporters. Del Paulhus and Kevin Williams argued that a “Dark Triad” of “overlapping but distinct” toxic traits — subclinical psychopathy, Machiavellianism and narcissism — explained much of what we might otherwise call a “bad” character. Research into the Dark Triad shows no signs of slowing. But the concept is being challenged. And other psychologists are proposing different ways to get to grips with the darker side of human nature…
...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Feature Personality Source Type: blogs
A Flawed Letter Opposing Electoral Count Act Reform
Walter OlsonAn outfit called the Conservative Action Project yesterday published a group letter opposing near ‐term Republican cooperation with Capitol Hill Democrats on reform of the Electoral Count Act. This is among the first indications that much of anyone besides former President Donald Trump himself is cool toward ECA reform. The letter and signers arehere.A main theme of the letter is that Democrats will try to pack into ECA reform theton ofbad stuff that was in the now ‐failed election omnibus bills. Of course GOPers could just respond, “Nothing doing, but we’re happy to work with you on a c...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 12, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
A Wrong Without a Remedy: Leaving Parents and Children with a Hollow Victory in Lawsuits against Unscrupulous Sperm Banks
Yaniv Heled (Georgia State University), Timothy D. Lytton (Georgia State University), Liza Vertinsky (Emory University), A Wrong Without a Remedy: Leaving Parents and Children with a Hollow Victory in Lawsuits against Unscrupulous Sperm Banks, 96 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. (2021): For... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 11, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Electoral Count Act and Presidential Ineligibility
Thomas A. BerryMembers of the House and Senate arehard at work draftingproposals to modernize andreform the Electoral Count Act (ECA). That act defines the procedure for how Congress counts the electoral votes for president and declares a winner every four years. Drafting an updated ECA raises dozens of difficult issues, which my colleague Andy Craig has done anexcellent job ofcataloging andanalyzing. This post will focus on just one of those issues, one that has not received significant attention: How should the ECA deal with a president-elect who is dead or disqualified and thus unable to serve?The Constitution ’sinstr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 3, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry Source Type: blogs
The Death Cult
While there has always been an anti-vaccination fringe, ever since there was such a thing as vaccination (and no, I ' m not sure why) the Republican party and conservatives have never as a class been hostile to the vaccine mandates that have been in place in every state for decades.Until now. The ginned up hysteria about Covid-19 vaccine, based on batshit insane conspiracy theories about microchips and alterations to DNA and lizard people, was just one more manufactured outrage to stir up the MAGAts, like Critical Race Theory, the castration of Mr. Potatohead, and of course the Big Steal, better known as the Big...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 25, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Diplomatic Hail Mary May Be Ukraine ’s Only Hope
Justin LoganAs Russia continues massing troops on its side of the border with Ukraine (as well as Belarus ’s), it’s worth asking a few questions before deciding what to do.The first, and most important one, is what a Russian invasion of Ukraine means for U.S. national security. The answer is “not much,” which may help explain why the question is so rarely being asked. U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinkenanswered his own rhetorical question, “why should Americans worry about Ukraine?” by saying the issue isbigger than Ukraine, because what ’s happening is this: You’ve got one country, Russia, by it...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 24, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Justin Logan Source Type: blogs
Excluding Non-Citizens from the Social Safety Net
Wendy E. Parmet (Northeastern University), Excluding Non-Citizens from the Social Safety Net, NE U. Sch. L. Legal Stud. (Research Paper No. 408, 2021): This paper, based on a talk I gave at the University of Georgia ’s conference on the Future... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 11, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Healthcare Artificial Intelligence News Of 2021
As 2021 is about to wrap up, we are reflecting on some of the most important news revolving around artificial intelligence (A.I.) in healthcare. These range from the principles laying the groundwork for the safe and effective development of A.I.-powered medical devices to a sober look at the technology’s role in the pandemic. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the top 10 healthcare A.I. news of the year that was.
1. The FDA’s list of AI/ML-enabled medical devices marketed in the U.S.
In September 2020, The Medical Futurist Institute (TMFI) had its first research published in the prestigious npj Digit...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 14, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy fda google IBM ibm watson A.I. deepmind Alphabet Source Type: blogs
DNA Storage in a Yottabyte Era
By KIM BELLARD
Did you know we are living in the Zettabyte Era? Honestly, did you even know what a zettabyte is? Kilobytes, gigabytes, maybe even terabytes, sure, but zettabytes? Well, if you ran data centers you’d know, and you’d care because demand for data storage is skyrocketing (all those TikTok videos and Netflix shows add up). Believe it or not, pretty much all of that data is still stored on magnetic tapes, which have served us well for the past sixty some years but at some point, there won’t be enough tapes or enough places to store them to keep up with the data storage needs.
That’s why people are s...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Data Health Tech DNA DNA storage Kim Bellard Microsoft zettabyte era Source Type: blogs
The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Health: Looking to the Past to Inform the Present
Sherajum Monira Farin (Georgia State University), Lauren Hoehn-Velasco (Georgia State University), Michael Pesko (Georgia State University), The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Health: Looking to the Past to Inform the Present, SSRN (2021): From 1959 to 1980, abortion-related mortality... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 11, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Multistep Lateral Flow Devices Perform Advanced Assays
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a lateral flow test platform that can perform advanced assays that would otherwise require a laboratory. By controlling the flow of liquid through the lateral flow test, the research team designed it so that it can perform advanced multistep assays that do not require sophisticated lab equipment and significant periods of time. So far, they have designed advanced dipstick tests that can detect both COVID-19 and influenza simultaneously, and others that can perform immunoassays to detect Zika virus, HIV, hepatitis B virus, or malaria.
Lateral flow assays, otherwise ...
Source: Medgadget - November 10, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Pathology Public Health georgiatech Source Type: blogs
