A Three ‐Pronged Blunder, or, What Money is, and What it Isn’t
George Selgin" The fateful errors of popular monetary doctrines which have led astray the monetary policies of almost all governments would hardly have come into existence if many economists had not themselves committed blunders in dealing with monetary issues and did not stubbornly cling to them. "—Ludwig von Mises,Human Action.I was chatting on the phone last week with Peter Coy, who was working on an article about money forThe New York Times Magazine, when he mentioned the old, three-pronged textbook definition of money: you know, the one that says money is a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 27, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
House 2022 National Defense Authorization Act Amendments on Arms Sales and Security Assistance
Jordan CohenThe House is set to vote on theNational Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2022. Prior to the structured Rule for the act, there were a total of fifty amendments that, if passed, would directly impact weapons sales legislation. Overall, these bills are divided into five broad themes: congressional power, increased monitoring and reporting surrounding human rights violators, weapons sales to the Middle East, weapons sales to counter Russia, and weapons sales to counter China.Readers should examine the2020 Arms Sales Risk Index for our latest data on risks associated with the weapons sales proc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Guinea ’s Coup Is The Latest Example Of Risks From U.S. Military Aid
A. Trevor Thrall andJordan CohenOn September 5, 2021, an American ‐trained military officer inGuinea ’s armed forces led a coup d ’état to oust President Alpha Condé. Though far from the only coup initiated by forces with American training, this coup marks the first time that someone has led a coupwhile taking that training. American officials have tried to distance the United States from the coup by saying that it is “inconsistent with U.S. military training and education” andsuspending military support to Guinea. Weak excuses like this, however, cannot obscure the truth: U.S. military assistance ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 14, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall, Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 651
Answer to theParasite Case of the Week 651:Strongyloidessp. rhabditiform larvae, as evidenced by the short buccal cavity and genital primordium. ALSO in this interesting case are unembryonated and fully embryonated eggs. Eggs are NOT usually shed in the stool inStrongyloides stercoralisinfection. So how do we explain these findings? Are theseStrongyloideseggs? Or something else? Is there a mixed infection here?Based on my own interpretation and your comments, I ' ve come up with the 5 possible scenarios to explain the findings in this case:Scenario 1. Both the larvae and eggs are those ofS. stercoralis.As mentioned ab...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - August 29, 2021 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
' The Trouble with Tribbles': surprising places ePHI lurks, and how to protect it
One of my all-time favorite Star Trek original series episodes is entitled " The Trouble with Tribbles. " In this episode, Captain Kirk urgently races to a space station that ' s in distress. Once at the space station, he and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise encounter small furry creatures that purr and resemble something between a small cat and a cute guinea pig that are called Tribbles. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Core Technologies, Security, Data Science, Data management, Interoperability Source Type: blogs
Should I Say Adios to Dexcom G7, Hello Abbott Freestyle Libre 2? Maybe.
ConclusionIn the end, I ' m getting sick of Dexcom and its product. I feel as if the company ' s initial focus on patients has declined, and the company now takes its patients for granted as it pushes for events to drive its share price up, and while its retail model has made getting the product to consumers vastly easier, but its basic product has not improved much. The new G7 model will make some modest changes, along with reducing the number of SKU ' s needed for the company to commercialize the product, which is less of a patient benefit and more about making distribution to retail pharmacies easier for the company. Th...
Source: Scott's Web Log - June 7, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Abbott CGM CGMS continuous glucose monitor Dexcom Freestyle Libre Source Type: blogs
Should I Say Adios to Dexcom G7, Hello Abbott Freestyle Libre 2? Maybe.
ConclusionIn the end, I ' m getting sick of Dexcom and its product and being considered a market tied to Dexcom itself. I feel as if the company ' s initial focus on patients has declined, and the company now takes its T1D patients for granted as it pushes for events to drive its share price up, targets the T2D universe to generate more sales. While its retail model has made getting the product to consumers vastly easier for patients, but its basic product has really not improved much. The new G7 model will make some modest changes, along with reducing the number of SKU ' s needed for the company to commercialize the produ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - June 7, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Abbott CGM CGMS continuous glucose monitor Dexcom Freestyle Libre Source Type: blogs
Let's Talk About Hospitals And Rural Healthcare (Particularly Mother-Baby Care): My Letter To The NC Government Commission/NC State Treasurer In Support Of Randolph County's Application For A Loan To Save Randolph Health
Author ' s Note: The lawyers have a saying, " Res Ipsa Loquitur " " . Translated from Latin, it means, " The thing speaks for itself " . This is the text of the letter I sent to theNC Local Government Commission (embellished with a few links and additional comments in red) . . .in support of the state of North Carolina granting a loan to Randolph County (via the NC Rural Healthcare Stabilization Act) . . . for purposes of assisting in the " rescue " of Asheboro ' s Randolph Health - in a bankruptcy Court-approved buy-out of Randolph ' s assets by American Healthcare Systems, LLC.On May 4th, afte...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 7, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: Asheboro Atrium Health Bankruptcy Cone Health Duke Lifepoint LGC Medical Whistle-blower Mother-Baby Care NC Rural Heatlh NCDHHS Non-profit Randolph Health UNC Health Wake Forest Baptist Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 12: Fear Itself
George Selgin" This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. …[T]he only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "—FDR, in his first inaugural address." There is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain. "—Thomas Hobbes, on the state of nature, inLeviathan.Not the Sum of its PartsSo far, I ' ve tended to look at the New Deal as a set or sequence of distinct government policies and programs, remarking on how each either contributed to or hampered economic recovery. I ' ve also dealt only with those New Deal policies generally understood to have had promoting recovery...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 14, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Five year persistence of Ebolavirus in humans
The current outbreak of Ebolavirus disease in Guinea, which began in February 2021, may have originated from a survivor of the 2013-16 outbreak in the same country. Phylogenetic analysis of genome sequences revealed that viruses from the current outbreak group with the Makona variant, which caused the 2013-16 epidemic. The new isolates are most closely […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 19, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology acute infection ebolavirus Guinea persistent infection sexual transmission viral viruses Source Type: blogs
Understanding Leprosy on World Leprosy Day
Leprosy is a chronic and progressive disease that primarily affects the skin and peripheral nervous system. Leprosy has been with us for thousands of years. There is evidence of the disease as far back as 4000 BC, in ancient Egypt.[1] In 1873, Norwegian physician Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen discovered that leprosy was caused by a bacterium. [2] Today, we call this bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, and we often refer to leprosy as Hansen’s Disease, in honor of Dr. Hansen. While leprosy caused significant morbidity and mortality in the past, cases today are rare and are curable with proper treatment.
How Is Leprosy Transmitte...
Source: GIDEON blog - January 28, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Uri Blackman Tags: News Leprosy Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 25th 2021
In conclusion, our studies highlight the important role of the tyrosine degradation pathway and position TAT as a link between neuromediator production, dysfunctional mitochondria, and aging. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - January 24, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Advocating the Use of Low Dose Ionizing Radiation as a Hormetic Treatment
Many forms of mild cellular stress produce benefits to health because they trigger the more efficient operation of cellular maintenance processes such as autophagy. That in turn causes better cell and tissue function, and thus improved health. This stress response and benefit is known as hormesis, and has been robustly proven to take place for calorie restriction, heat, cold, low dose ionizing radiation, and numerous other environmental circumstances. When it comes to slowing aging, the benefits of hormesis to life span are much larger in short-lived species. The short-term changes to metabolism are very similar, however, ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 20, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
What infectious diseases are due to be eradicated next?
Although Medical Science aims to eradicate Infectious Diseases in order to protect life and reduce the healthcare burden, it has only been able to achieve that goal against two diseases to date. While this remains a difficult task, there is a genuine possibility that additional diseases will be eliminated in the near future! Let’s explore the diseases that have been consigned to history…and those that are set to join them soon.
Smallpox: declared eradicated in 1980
Following a concentrated global effort spanning more than 20 years, Smallpox became the first infectious disease to be eradicated by mankind. S...
Source: GIDEON blog - December 23, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Source Type: blogs
IVF doctors and the games they play with their IVF patients
Many patients continue to believe that the best doctors are the ones who do the most tests - and that the more expensive the test , the better the doctor !They also naively believe that the best doctor is the one who does the most expensive treatments , and charges the most for these. After all, if he charges more , he must be adding some special value . And if other patients are willing to pay the extra he charges, this means that they also think that he is better than all the rest .Many doctors are quite happy to play this game of one-upmanship. They want to prove that they are better than other doctors , which is ...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - December 21, 2020 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
