A Looming Crackdown in Hong Kong?
Ted Galen CarpenterFor months, transfixed populations around the world have watched as anti-government, pro-democracy demonstrations continue to convulse Hong Kong.The frequently violent disruptions are producing highly negative economic effects.More than a month ago, data indicated that hotel bookings in Hong Kong weredown 40 percent from a year earlier, as both business travelers and tourists sought to avoid being caught up in the turmoil.Demonstrations —and sometimes pitched battles between protesters and police--at Hong Kong’s international airport have produced extensive flight cancellations, and the airport has h...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 13, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Halloween Reminders for Parents of Anxious Children
It’s almost Halloween. Corn stalks, jack o’ lanterns, and witches hats adorn shop windows and every corridor of the local grocery. Pumpkins spill out of carts at local farm stands, often with a few carved with toothy grins. Front porches and lawns sport scarecrows, spider webs, and a skeleton or two. Some communities hold rag-tag parades where costumed kids take to the street or local mall for Halloween fun. Classrooms may no longer have parties with cupcakes and candy as they did in the parents’ generation, but many still do recognize the season in some way. It’s exciting. It’s fun!
And yet. There are childr...
Source: World of Psychology - October 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. Tags: Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens Holiday Coping Parenting Anxious Children Halloween Trick or treating Source Type: blogs
Hong Kong's Digital Protests: Blizzard Case Could Be a Warning for Fortune 500 Companies
Blizzard-Activision recently found itself drawn into the political controversy surrounding the Hong Kong protests. The experience could serve as a warning for other companies that could find themselves plunged into crisis management mode by world events. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - October 28, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Sale Lilly Source Type: blogs
3D Printed Cells and Bioinks for Making Implantable Blood Vessels
Researchers based in South Korea and Hong Kong have developed a method to create biomimetic blood vessels by directly 3D printing vascular cells and bioinks containing collagen and vascular tissue extracellular matrix components. The resulting constructs closely mimic natural blood vessels, suggesting that such techniques could pave the way for custom vascular grafts to treat various cardiovascular diseases.
Vascular grafts typically involve removing a healthy blood vessel and implanting it elsewhere to restore blood flow or replace a diseased vessel. However, suitable vessels are not always available, and even if they ...
Source: Medgadget - October 25, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Materials News Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
How to Resolve the Hong Kong Crisis
Rebuilding trust between the residents of Hong Kong and their government will be an extremely difficult task. But with some reasonable compromises on both sides, Hong Kong has the opportunity to step back from the brink of disaster. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - October 22, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 17, 2019 Edition.-----Trump has really done it this time with his green light to have Turkey try to invade some Kurdish Territory occupied by fighters who up until a few days ago were US allies. He is really a wrecking ball on the whole international order. With Russia, Iran and Syria all sucked in I fear a great mess with huge loss of life will ensue. Hong Kong is also spiraling out of controlWe are down to the pointy end on Brexit and the next few weeks will definitely tell. Big meeting tonight will be crucial.In OZ parliament is back and we will see all how it turns out as all sorts of unexpected things happen w...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 16, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Early announcement: 15 PhD contracts to open in 2020 in the framework of the COBRA (Conversational Brains) European project
COBRA is a Marie Sk łodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 programme. It aims to train early-stage researchers to accurately characterize and model the linguistic, cognitive and brain mechanisms that allow conversation to unfold in both human-human and huma n-machine interactions.The network comprises ten academic research centers on language, cognition and the human brain, and four industrial partners in web-based speech technology, conversational agents and social robots, in ten countries (Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Slovak...
Source: Talking Brains - October 9, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 10, 2019 Edition.-----The question of the year is now about just how bad President Trump ’s mental state is and is it reaching the position that we might see some serious problems from his distraction and anger! Otherwise the threat of impeachment seems to be totally overwhelming any other issues.I have no idea where Brexit is up to – but it will have to be sorted in the next few we eks one way or another!Incidentally what is happening in Hong Kong is both understandable and very sad. The face of Asia is being changed radically I suspect.In Australia the big news is regarding how we are being sucked into the US...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 9, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Red Light Activated Cancer Drug Improves Treatment in Mice
Researchers from the City University of Hong Kong have developed a new, controllable cancer drug called phorbiplatin that only becomes active and potent after red light stimulation. Their work demonstrates that in the dark the cancer drug does not have substantial toxicity, but the drug is able to substantially reduce tumor size when activated by red light. One day, this technology may be used to improve cancer treatment and reduce its side effects.
Currently, many cancer drugs are administered and have toxic effects on both cancer cells and our body’s healthy cells. This leads to incredibly challenging side effects ...
Source: Medgadget - October 7, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Siavash Parkhideh Tags: Medicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
The Moral Choices on CRISPR Babies
This post is presented in collaboration with the American Journal of Bioethics.
You can read the entire issue by clicking here.
by Sheldon Krimsky
In late November 2018, Chinese scientist Dr. He Jiankui announced at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong that he had used CRISPR/Cas 9 gene editing on two female embryos that were brought to term through an in vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancy. The world scientific community was ill-prepared for the announcement since the moral issues surrounding the editing of human embryos were under discussion but hardly resolved.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 3, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Editorial-AJOB Featured Posts Genetics Reproductive Ethics gene editing Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 03, 2019 Edition.-----The big news this week – and for the next few months – will be the move by the Democrats to up the ante on the Ukrainian Affair and trying to get rid of him via Impeachment. The stress seem to be getting to Trump and he is becoming more and more erratic. The UK is in utter chaos. Who knows where it will endIn OZ the b iggest issue is management of our relationship with China which right now seems to be spinning out of control. The US / China relationship is the biggest issue of out time I believe and poses all sorts of challenges for Australia. The 70 year anniversary and the chaos in Hong...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 2, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
China Celebrates an Anniversary of a "People's Democratic Dictatorship"
David BoazNext Tuesday the People's Republic of China is celebrating the 65th anniversary of its founding on October 1, 1949. Quite anextravaganza is planned, even as protesters in Hong Kongplan a counter-rally. China's opposition to democracy in Hong Kong and in China itself is not just the recalcitrance of cranky old men. It's part of the Chinese Communist state's founding mission.Take the speech of Mao Zedong on July 1, 1949, as his Communist armies neared victory. The speech was titled, “On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship.” Instead of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it spoke of “the extinct...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 26, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Hong Kong Protests and the Political Effects of an “Exit” Option
Alex NowrastehSparked by a Chinese extradition bill that would have made it possible for people in Hong Kong to be tried in the mainland ’s justice system, protesters in Hong Kong have demonstrated against Beijing for100 days as of this week. Since starting, the protests have grown to include a broader critique of the Chinese communist government ’s policies in Hong Kong. In anticipation of a potential government crackdown, no doubt influenced by fear of a repeat of themassacre at Tiananmen Square 30 years ago, the option for protesters and their families to leave seems increasingly important.One of the potential downs...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
United States Ranks 5th in Economic Freedom
Ian V ásquezTheEconomic Freedom of the World: 2019 Annual Report is out today. The highest-ranking countries in this year ’s index, co-published in the United States by the Fraser Institute and the Cato Institute, are Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States.Hong Kong still ranks first in the index —which is based on 2017 data, the most recent year for which internationally comparable data are available—but we are concerned about its ability to maintain a high position given Beijing's increasing intervention in the territory's affairs. Already we have seen a decline in Hong Kong's rule o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 12, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
A Tale of Two Cities China Ignores at its Peril
Beijing may believe that, eventually, Taiwanese politics will turn in its favor. But it should consider experiences from the other two territories currently living under the formula — Hong Kong and Macau — to better understand why “ one country, two systems ” will never work in Taiwan, regardless of politics. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 11, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
