Countries with the Highest Shares of Their Populations Living in the U.S.
David J. BierThe United States is home to immigrants from every country in the world, but people are much more likely to leave some countries than others. The probability of a person from a given country immigrating to the United States can be broadly measured by dividing the number of immigrants in the United States by the country’s population plus the country’s population.Figure 1 shows the origin countries for people with the highest likelihood of immigrating to the United States. The immigration data come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey as of July 1, 2021 and the country population da...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 29, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Five Misconceptions about the Crisis in Venezuela
Some media reports and analyses on the latest developments in Venezuela are repeating the following five misconceptions: 1. “Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself president of Venezuela” Juan Guaid ó is the president of the National Assembly, a body that is controlled by the opposition. On January 10 a new presidential term started and, as required by the Constitution, the president-elect had to be sworn-in in front of the National Assembly. However, Nicolás Maduro was “reelected” last M ay in a sham election that the leading opposition parties were prevented from contesting it. Thus, on January 10 most Wes...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 28, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Juan Carlos Hidalgo Source Type: blogs
Raj of the NHS – How doctors from India and Pakistan saved the NHS
By ROHIN FRANCIS
India and Pakistan celebrate 71 years of Independence today. The British National Health Service owes them a debt of gratitude.
Great Britain’s national dish is famously chicken curry, but South Asia’s impact on this sceptred isle extends far beyond food. It is a testament to how ingrained into the British psyche the stereotypical Indian doctor has become that in 2005 a poll of Brits found the doctor they’d most like to consult is a 30-something South Asian female. In 2010 the BBC even ran a popular TV series simply entitled ‘The Indian Doctor’ following a story played out across the UK in the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: NHS Source Type: blogs
New cross-cultural analysis suggests that g or “general intelligence” is a human universal
By Alex Fradera
Intelligence is a concept that some people have a hard time buying. It’s too multifaceted, too context-dependent, too Western. The US psychologist Edwin Boring encapsulated this scepticism when he said “measurable intelligence is simply what the tests of intelligence test.” Yet the scientific credentials of the concept are undimmed, partly because intelligence is strongly associated with so many important outcomes in life. Now Utah Valley University researchers Russell Warne and Cassidy Burningham have released evidence that further strengthens the case for intelligence being a valid and useful conce...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Intelligence Source Type: blogs
Treat the Pathway, not the Gene (from Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease)
Treat the key pathway, not the genetic mutation (fromPrecision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease)Some of the earliest and most successful Precision Medication drugs have targeted specific mutations occurring in specific subsets of diseases. One such example is ivacaftor, which targets the G551D mutation present in about 4% of individuals with cystic fibrosis [135]. It is seldom wise to argue with success, but it must be mentioned that the cost of developing a new drug is about $5 billion [136]. To provide some perspective, $5 billion exceeds the total gross national product of many countries, including Sierra L...
Source: Specified Life - February 5, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: clinical trials convergent pathways cost of precision medicine precision treatment Source Type: blogs
The Philippines Passes the ‘ Speech-Language Pathology Act ’
Speech-language pathologists in the Philippines will now be officially recognized as health care professionals. As of March 6, the Filipino Senate passed Bill No. 462, known as the Speech-Language Pathology Act of 2016. The legislation aims to elevate the profession by introducing regulations and licensure requirements to match existing international standards.
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, chair of the Senate committee on civil service and government reorganization, co-authored and sponsored the bill, according to an article in the Manila Bulletin. “It is but proper for the government to uplift the standards and push for t...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 8, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: News Speech-Language Pathology Advocacy Professional Development Source Type: blogs
A Word About the New Show ‘ Speechless ’
John Ross Bowie, Minnie Driver, Micah Fowler, Kyla Kenedy
Last Wednesday night I settled in to watch “Speechless” on ABC—from the perspective of a speech-language pathologist. As is true for many of us, my job follows me wherever I go. It doesn’t really have an off switch. As SLPs, we witness the struggles of our clients and their families.
When “Speechless” came along, I was curious, hopeful and somewhat wary of a show whose main focus is a family’s struggle with raising a child with special needs. Frankly, media hasn’t done a bang-up job of portraying people with disabilities—or those who support them...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - September 27, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Kerry Davis Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Augmentative Alternative Communication Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
“Bartica, a town in Guyana, is the jumping-off point for...
"Bartica, a town in Guyana, is the jumping-off point for what the Guyanese call "the interior," a sparsely populated region of forest and savanna that holds indigenous villages, mining camps and deposits of gold, diamonds, bauxite and other minerals. The region, a two-and-a-half-hour journey by car and boat from Guyana's capital, Georgetown, is at the center of a bitter battle between neighbors. In a squabble that goes back more than 100 years, Venezuela insists it is the rightful owner of everything west of the Essequibo — Guyana's largest river — laying claim to nearly two-thirds of Guyana's territory, including #Bar...
Source: Kidney Notes - November 20, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
