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A sobering piece in The Guardian by Van Badham about the global pandemic of insanity. With Rand Paul and Ronald T. Dump cheering on the phony " truckers " protest in Canada (most of the participants are not truckers and 90% of Canadian professional truck drivers are happily vaccinated), it ' s important to understand what ' s really going on.This is not a spontaneous uprising -- it ' s a global phenomenon that ' s being organized and financed by shadowy millionaires, or maybe billionaires. Different countries ’ protests may claim they’re just “inspired” by one another, but a chilling tactical simil...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 13, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
90 You Are Enough Quotes to Give You a Big Boost of Self-Love
It’s so easy to fall into the never-ending trap of thinking that you are not enough.
And so you keep on pushing and pushing to be even more productive, to work out even harder to reach your fitness goals or to be able to buy more of the things you want.
Now, there is nothing wrong with trying to improve different areas in your life.
But when one falls into the trap of thinking that you are never enough or good enough then life can become very unhappy – despite if things are actually going pretty well in your life – and your mindset drags you down instead of helping you.
So in this post I’d like to share the...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - February 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Does VR give you motion sickness? Try chewing some gum
By Emma Young
VR headsets are becoming commonplace not only in entertainment and pilot training, but in clinical settings — in helping people to overcome phobias, for example, or to distract burns patients while their dressings are changed. Unfortunately, there’s a common side effect: visually induced motion sickness (VIMS), sometimes also known as “cybersickness”. This limits the use of VR, or means that people have to spend extended periods feeling nauseous while they adapt to it. But according to new research in Experimental Brain Research there’s a very simple way to tackle this problem: chewing f...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Technology Source Type: blogs
The State Of Exoskeletons In 2022
Science fiction has for long fantasised about ways to augment fragile humans’ power and endurance through mechanical means. In Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise’s abilities are enhanced via a combat jacket. Humans in Avatar board the AMP suit to tread the deadly environment on Pandora. Such depictions of exoskeletons – or wearable mechanical structures that attach to joints to assist and/or enhance strength and endurance for motion – have left the realm of science fiction and have become part of our reality.
Back in 2014, a paraplegic man suited in a robotic exoskeleton made the symbolic kick-off for the Worl...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Cyborgization Future of Medicine Robotics exoskeleton exoskeleton technology Source Type: blogs
Glooko Acquires Germany-Based xbird, a Medical AI Company
Acquisition expands Glooko’s digital health capabilities with machine learning Glooko, Inc., a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and digital health solutions for diabetes and other chronic conditions today announced it has acquired xbird, a Berlin-based health AI company developing JITAI (Just In Time Adaptive Intervention) technologies to support patients and their providers in predicting […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Diabetes Technology Glooko Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Acquisitions Healthcare Analytics Matteo Carli Medical AI Russ Johannesson Sebastian Sujka xbird Source Type: blogs
85 Starting Over Quotes to Help You Begin The Rest of Your Life
If you want a boost of motivation to make it easier for you to create a fresh start in your life then you're in the right place.
Because in this post I'd like to share a collection of the best starting over quotes.
Timeless advice and inspiration to help you with taking that oftentimes hard but necessary step forward in your own life.
No matter if it's in a relationship, with your job or business or maybe your health or money habits in the early days of this year.
And if you want more motivational quotes to help you get a new start then check out this post with quotes on knowing your own true worth and this one filled wit...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - February 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
German Pharmaceutical Pricing: Lessons for the U.S.
Marc A. Rodwin (Suffolk University), Sara Gerke (Pennsylvania State University), German Pharmaceutical Pricing: Lessons for the U.S., Int ’l J. Health Serv. (2021): To control pharmaceutical spending and improve access, the U.S. could adopt strategies similar to those introduced in Germany... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 4, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Highlighting refugees ’ resilience can boost their confidence and engagement at university
By Emma Young
Refugees face all kinds of obstacles to settling well into a new country. One is the “stigmatised identity” of refugees as being weak, unskilled victims, write Christina Bauer at the Free University of Berlin and colleagues in a new paper in Psychological Science. So the team designed a simple intervention to reframe that identity as one characterised instead by perseverance and the ability to cope with adversity. When they tested it with refugees who were studying online, they found that it increased their engagement with their course — which in theory could make for greater future universi...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Educational Source Type: blogs
Avoiding The Plague: Medical Advice from the 14th Century.
Years ago I added a book to my medical library entitled Hecker’s Epidemics of the Middle Ages. Published in 1843, the pages are yellow and fragile, but the COVID-19 Epidemic spurred me to open it up and peruse the contents for lessons relevant to today’s events. Among the more fascinating topics is a section on physician recommendations for avoiding contagion.
The Black Death was a global epidemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the world of the Middle Ages, killing one third of all the people in Europe. In the 14th Century the esteemed medical faculty of Paris were commissioned to deliver their opinion to furni...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 18, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Art & Medicine Featured Medical Articles Medical History Source Type: blogs
Avoiding The Plague: Medical Advice from the 14th Century.
The Black Death was a global epidemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the world of the Middle Ages, killing one third of all the people in Europe. In the 14th Century the esteemed medical faculty of Paris were commissioned to deliver their opinion to furnish recommendations to prevent its transmission. This was before the knowledge of micro-organisms, and medical advice revolves around modifying the air and the diet, as well as personal activity, colonic cleansing and chastity. Here are some highlights, from the reference entitled Hecker’s Epidemics of the Middle Ages:
[K]indle a large fire of vine-wood, green laur...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 18, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Art & Medicine Featured Medical Articles Medical History Source Type: blogs
The Potential Role Of Technology In Euthanasia And Assisted Death
In early 2021, Spanish lawmakers legalised euthanasia and assisted death for patients suffering from unbearable and/or incurable conditions, making Spain the sixth country in the world to do so. Prior to this move, the Netherlands expanded the eligibility to euthanasia to include advanced dementia patients, provided they made an earlier written request.
Following the new law in Spain, Health Minister Carolina Darias said that “we are heading towards a more humane and fair society”. She further praised this acknowledgement of the right to an assisted death as a crucial move “towards the recognition of human rights&...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Forecast Lifestyle medicine Bioethics Biotechnology Healthcare Policy 3d printing euthanasia assisted dying Source Type: blogs
86 Comfort Zone Quotes to Motivate You to Live Your Best Life
One of the most common reasons why people get stuck in inaction and don’t move forward to actually improve their lives in the way they want is – in my experience – simply because it's uncomfortable.
It’s easier and often feels pretty good at least OK for a while to just stay in the comfort zone.
But to make real and positive changes in your life and grow as a person you need to step out of the zone of comfort for at least a little while during your month and year.
So in this post I’d like to share 86 comfort zone quotes that will help you to do that by giving you a focused motivational boost and some prac...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - January 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
80 Actions Speak Louder Than Words Quotes to Kickstart Your Motivation
It’s so easy to get stuck in thinking. In talking about what you want to do. In dreaming.
To a large part simply because it's easier than taking action and step by step keep moving forward to achieve your tasks, goals and dreams.
The inner resistance towards taking action is most often there. And the fear of failing can also hold you back.
My weekly go-to when it feels hard to take action towards my own goals is to…
Break what I need to do into smaller steps. Steps that only take 5-10 minutes to complete. Then I focus on just the first of those small steps until I have completed it.
If the inner resistance is extr...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - January 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
People behave more sadistically when they ’re bored
This study “points to a potential cause of child maltreatment that has not so far been considered in empirical research” they write.
However, a weakness of these studies was that they were all correlational and based on self-report. So the team then looked at what impact experimentally-induced boredom might have on sadistic behaviour. These studies of more than 4,000 people produced some fascinating if also disturbing results.
In one, 129 participants came into the lab, handed in their phones and anything else that might be distracting, and were put into a cubicle to watch either a 20-minute film of a waterfall (...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 12, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Morality Personality Source Type: blogs
History
I ' ve been reading a lot of history lately. The Story of China, by Michael Wood, A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani, a couple of Jared Diamond books, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan, World War II by Robert Tombs, and other books.Our view of historical time tends to be fairly compressed. We think the future will be an extrapolation of the past we know personally, our own lifetime and maybe that of our grandparents who told us their stories. This makes larger scale historical events seem an abstraction and not anything that can happen to us. Yes, World War II was in the time frame....
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 10, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
