A physician uses where he comes from for constant motivation
Growing up, any opportunity to eat out was truly a luxury. We just didn’t have the money for it. Occasionally on birthdays or a special trip, we would be treated with a big fish sandwich from Burger King, or my personal favorite, a $20 party tray of shrimp fried rice from the local Hong Kong […]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 - September 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/nasir-malim" rel="tag" > Nasir Malim, MD, MPH < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Hong Kong Needs to Leverage Its Free Market in Ideas
The massive demonstrations in Hong Kong against the proposedextradition bill revealed the moral rectitude of citizens to protect their way of life and freedom from Communist China. On June 9, hundreds of thousands of individuals exercised their right to peacefully contest the extradition legislation supported by Chief Executive Carrie Lam. By putting moral and political pressure on government officials, the people succeeded in reversing the course of the bill, which was s uspended on June 15 and declared “dead” on July 9. Yet the bill has not been fully withdrawn and could be reintroduced in the future—a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 29, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: James A. Dorn Source Type: blogs
Energy Harvester for the Human Knee to Power Wearable Devices
Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a device that can harvest energy from the human knee during walking, without a substantial increase in effort for wearers. Their work demonstrates that the device generates up to 1.6 mW of power without significant change in breathing patterns or oxygen consumption by the wearer. One day, this device may power wearable electronics, body-worn sensors, and prostheses.
Previous work developing energy harvesters has resulted in a variety of devices (see flashbacks below). Some devices can generate a few watts, but they tend to be heavy. Other devices requir...
Source: Medgadget - July 22, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Siavash Parkhideh Tags: Materials Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: July 13, 2019
Ready for the latest on how to weaken your self-confidence (stick with us here), research on women, alcohol, and mental health, and how the Greek concept of eudaimonia can help us flourish in both personal and business life?
Dive into this week’s Psychology Around the Net where you’ll find all that and more!
10 Insanely Popular Ways to Weaken Your Self-Confidence: To the approval-seekers, the excuse-makers, the second-guessers: this one’s for you.
Women Who Stop Drinking Alcohol Improve Mental Health: Researchers studied the drinking habits and self-reported mental health of more than 31,000 people in th...
Source: World of Psychology - July 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Psychology Around the Net Alcohol Bipolar Disorder Happiness kids men mental health days Procrastination Research Schizoaffective Disorder self-confidence study women Work Source Type: blogs
Flying to Malpani Clinic for IVF treatment
At the end of last year, Ekaterina Aleksandrova boarded a plane in London and flew to Mumbai. It wasn't her first trip there - she is a management consultant and often goes abroad on business. But this time she went to have embryos transferred in her womb.A couple of days later she flew back to Europe. While on business in Hong Kong in January, she discovered she was pregnant with just one embryo.For Aleksandrova, 42, this was the culmination of a six-year struggle to become a mother. She divorced at 29, and hadn't been in a serious relationship since she was 34. "I always wanted to have a child but the men kept saying, 'W...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - July 7, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Beijing Won't Allow Its Hong Kong Integration Experiment to Fail
Recent events in Hong Kong have posed the stiffest challenge yet to Beijing ' s sovereignty. If sustained, they could push China to react to protect its national interests. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 2, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
Libra's Unresolved Puzzles
By now everyone has heard of Libra, the new private digital money system announced last week, sponsored by Facebook and a consortium of other firms, to be rolled out in 2020. The project ’sofficial white paper, “An Introduction to Libra,” calls it “a new decentralized blockchain, a low-volatility cryptocurrency, and a smart contract platform.” A second officialdocument on “The Libra Reserve” goes into more detail. An overview of the system’s potential by Diego Zuluaga is availablehere, a more critical view by Stephen Williamsonhere. Alarmed denunciations of Libra for being too corporation-y can be foundhere...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 2, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
One Country, Two Systems, Lots of Problems
The enormous protests in Hong Kong since spring have led to fresh fears about the viability of China ' s “ one country, two systems ” policy. It ' s an idea that Macau and Hong Kong officially subscribe to and Taiwan fiercely resists — but one increasingly questioned from all sides. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 20, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
The Fed's New Repo Plan
I ’m not the gambling sort. However, were I so I’d bet dollars to donuts that the Standing Repo Facility (henceforth “SRF”) plan proposed by David Andolfatto and Jane Ihrig in a pair of St. Louis Fed articles (here andhere) will be an important topic of discussion at the upcomingChicago Fed Conference on Monetary Policy Strategy, Tools, and Communication Practices. That plan is supposed to allow the Fed to go on trimming its balance sheet for some time, instead of ending its unwind this October, despite Basel ’s LCR requirements and despite the Fed’s determination to stick with its current floor system of monet...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 2, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Good News For Science, Bad News For Humanity – The “Bias Blind Spot” Just Replicated (“Everyone Else Is More Biased Than Me”)
By Matthew Warren
Psychology’s replication crisis receives a lot of airtime, with plenty of examples of failed replications and methodological issues that cast doubt on past research findings. But there is also good news: several key results in cognitive psychology and personality research, for example, have been successfully replicated.
Now researchers have reproduced the results of another highly-cited study. Back in 2002, Emily Pronin and colleagues first described the “bias blind spot”, the finding that people believe they are less biased in their judgments and behaviour than the general population – that is, ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cognition Replications Thought Source Type: blogs
Beyond Vaccination: New Measures Needed to Protect Hospitals and the Public Against the Flu
By MARC M. BEUTTLER, MD
Every year at this time, you hear warnings that flu season has arrived. New data from the CDC indicates the season is far from over. So, you are urged by health authorities to get a flu shot. What you may not realize is how the flu can affect the hospitals you and your loved ones rely on for care.
In January, the large urban hospital where I am an intern faced the worst flu outbreak it has ever seen. Nearly 100 staff members tested positive for the flu. Residents assigned to back-up coverage were called to work daily to supplement the dwindling ranks of the sick. Every hospital vis...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Hospitals Medical Practice Marc Beuttler Vaccination Source Type: blogs
New Jones Act Ship No Cause for Celebration
Earlier this month a new Jones Act-eligible ship, Kaimana Hila, was officially christened when Rep. Tulsi Gabbard broke a ceremonial champagne bottle against the ship’s super-structure. On the surface, the new vessel is a triumph. At 850 feet in length and featuring a cargo capacity of 3,600 TEUs Kaimana Hila is—along with sister ship Daniel K. Inouye—the largest containership in the Jones Act fleet. But this is no shining example of U.S. seagoing prowess. In fact, the ship is in many ways symptomatic of the damage and dysfunction wrought by the Jones Act upon the U.S. maritime industry.Such dysfunction begin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
10 Reasons Why Digital Health Start-Ups Go Bust
While the digital health market is expanding rapidly, ninety percent of start-ups will probably die within two to five years from their inception. That’s an awfully high number, so we looked around what could possibly go wrong with digital health start-ups to avoid the undeserving fate of falling into the abyss.
Being an entrepreneur is tough – especially in
healthcare
As currently there’s an app for everything, you
thought you make one that estimates the time needed to deliver food – so anyone
could order pad thai from the closest place possible. Every single entrepreneur
knows that a good idea is as a tiny ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 14, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Business Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design business model companies digital health digital health startups entrepreneurship future healthcare data Innovation patient design scientific scientific validation technology Source Type: blogs
Research Integrity and Peer Review looks ahead to the World Conference on Research Integrity
On June 2-5, 2019, the research community will have an exciting opportunity to gather in Hong Kong at a global forum and address the challenges of promoting research integrity and the responsible conduct of research. The 6th edition of the World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) will be back in Asia for the first time since its 2010 meeting produced the groundbreaking Singapore Statement on Research Integrity ). This time, the focus will be “New Challenges for Research Integrity”.
What is the WCRI?
The World Conferences on Research Integrity are run by an independent foundation drawn from academia, funders, publi...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - February 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Susan V. Zimmerman Tags: Publishing Research Integrity and Peer Review Source Type: blogs
