Modi's Multipolar Moment Has Arrived
Russia ' s war in Ukraine has benefited India as great powers are competing more vigorously for New Delhi ' s affection, particularly the United States and China. India has also prevented its Russia policy from spoiling partnerships with key European and Indo-Pacific partners. These trends, if sustained, will contribute to India ' s rise to great-power status and in turn, shift the global system toward even greater multipolarity. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 6, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
The Case for Tribal Veterans Healing to Wellness Courts
Kristine A. Huskey (University of Arizona), The Case for Tribal Veterans Healing to Wellness Courts, 90 U. Mo.-Kan. City L. Rev. (2022): American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) have served in the armed forces of the United States since the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 3, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on the Labour Forces in India
Ardhendu Sekhar Nanda (Independent), Manas Ranjan Panda (Independent), Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on the Labour Forces in India, SSRN (2021): Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, India has been going through slower economic growth and unprecedented unemployment difficulties which were aggravated... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 29, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
British Doctor Suspended for falsely claiming she was “promised” a laptop. WTF!
BY SAURABH JHA
If forced to choose Britain’s two biggest contributions to civilizations, I’d pick the Magna Carta and the vaguely instructional “f. off.” If permitted a third, I’d choose “managerialism.” Brits are good at telling others what to do. Managerialism is how the Brits once ruled India. Buoyed by the colonial experience, British managers felt they could rule doctors.
The new Viceroy, the manager-in-chief, is the General Medical Council (GMC). The GMC is a physician watchdog, funded by doctors, which works for the public good and is answerable to…well, I’ll get to that later. Their releva...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Politics Laptop Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service Saurabh Jha UK General Medical Council Source Type: blogs
The Licensing Walls Come Tumbling Down
BY KIM BELLARD
Abortion rights continue to be one of the most heated issues in American politics, super-fueled by last week’s leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn 1973’s Roe v. Wade and return the issue to the states to decide.
I’ll leave it to others more qualified than me – women, for example — to weigh in on abortion itself, but I want to talk about how abortion pills are going to force changes to our healthcare system that many may not be ready for.
Although the stereotype of abortions is a procedure done by a physician in an office/clinic, the majority of abortions in ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Pharmaceuticals Abortifacient Abortion Hey jane Just the Pill Kim Bellard State Licensing Source Type: blogs
U.S. Gasoline Prices Depend on Global Oil Markets — Not “Independence”
Alan ReynoldsI still have a 1979 bookmark that says, “INFLATION IS A PAIN IN THE GAS.”Funny but wrong. U.S. gasoline prices follow gyrations in world oil markets, which depend on global (not domestic) supply and demand.What actually happened in 1978 –80, an important German study from Bruegel reminds us, was the Iranian revolution and the Iran ‐Iraq War: “The 1978 Iranian revolution decreased global supply by 4 percent and led to a price increase of 57 percent. The 1980 Iran‐Iraq war decreased global supply by 4 percent and led to a price increase of 45 percent.”What happened to world oil market...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
The Future Of Vision And Eye Care
3D printed digital contact lenses, bionic eye implants, augmented reality: the future of vision and eye care is full of science fiction-sounding innovations. Here is where digital health will take ophthalmology in the future!
More than 80 percent of perception comes through vision
Researchers estimate that 80-85 percent of our perception, learning, cognition, and activities are mediated through vision. Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 percent, touch 1.5 percent and taste 1 percent. Don’t you think that’s possible? Renowned scholars, L.D. Ros...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Augmented Reality Cyborgization 3d printing AI diabetes digital digital health future guide Healthcare Innovation Personalized medicine technology vision eye care ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 9th 2022
In conclusion, although several favorable effects are obtained in our heterochronic non-myeloablative transplantation model, additional optimization is needed for better rejuvenation effects.
More on GPNMB as a Target for Senolytic Therapies to Clear Senescent Cells
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/05/more-on-gpnmb-as-a-target-for-senolytic-therapies-to-clear-senescent-cells/
You might recall that researchers recently demonstrated that vaccination against GPNMB is a senolytic strategy, reducing the harmful burden of senescent cells in aged tissues by directing the immune system to destroy these ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 8, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
India Slips to 150th Position in Press Freedom Index
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria AiyarFor those who wonder why India has not joined a “coalition of the free” against Russia, the news is that India is not that free anyway. It has fallen from 142nd to 150th position in the World Press Freedom Index 2022 of Reporters Without Borders.This is a telling comment on growing government pressures as well as misuse of social media to attack media critics. The main culprit has been the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party, but non ‐BJP state governments are guilty of some of the same tactics—misuse of government advertising to reward friends and penalize foes, tax raids and arbitr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 5, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar Source Type: blogs
Five Market ‐Oriented Policies to Help the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
Scott LincicomeWith Congress still considering a $50 billion-plus subsidy package for U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, I ’ve discussed themany(many)reasonswhy such subsides are costly and unnecessary, as well as theignominious history of similar industrial policies in the United States. This doesn ’t mean, however, that the U.S. government should simply do nothing. Instead, there are many horizontal, pro-market policy reforms that would deliver substantial benefits to chipmakers and other capital-intensive advanced manufacturers in the United States while avoiding U.S. industrial policy’s common pitfalls – picking...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 5, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
How The PBM Insulin Scheme Is Poised to Be Disrupted by Civica Rx
So, with this week ' s news focused on other areas (like the Supreme Court), I thought it might be appropriate to focus on something which is still very broken, yet seems poised to be resolved by good old fashioned market forces: insulin prices.The U.S. " market " for insulin is bedeviled by the same problem that causes all U.S. prescription drug prices to be so high: Pharmacy Benefit Managers ( " PBM ' s " ) are manipulating prescription drug discounting behind-the-scenes in order to enrich themselves at everyone else ' s expense. Most discounts PBM ' s collect come in the form of cash rebates, which are paid by pharmaceu...
Source: Scott's Web Log - May 4, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 biogenerics Biosimilar biosimilars Civica Rx CivicaRx insulin insulin analogs Lilly Novo Nordisk PBM Sanofi Source Type: blogs
The Business of Diabetes: How The PBM Insulin Scheme Is Poised to Be Disrupted by Civica Rx
So, with this week ' s news focused on other areas (like the Supreme Court), I thought it might be appropriate to focus on something which is still very broken, yet seems poised to be resolved by good old fashioned market forces: insulin prices.The U.S. " market " for insulin is bedeviled by the same problem that causes all U.S. prescription drug prices to be so high: Pharmacy Benefit Managers ( " PBM ' s " ) are manipulating prescription drug discounting behind-the-scenes in order to enrich themselves at everyone else ' s expense. Most discounts PBM ' s collect come in the form of cash rebates, which are paid by pharmaceu...
Source: Scott's Web Log - May 4, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 biogenerics Biosimilar biosimilars Civica Rx CivicaRx insulin insulin analogs Lilly Novo Nordisk PBM Sanofi Source Type: blogs
Apocalypse Now
There ' s a lot for the media to cover right now, but we really must not ignore thehorrific heat wave in India and Pakistan. It isn ' t even late spring, and temperatures are 50 C, that ' s about 122 F. The heat is destroying crops and has created a critical shortage of electricity. And, obviously, it ' s killing people although we aren ' t getting any data on that. Some places have been observed by satellite to have temperatures as high as 60C, which is incompatible with human life. And it ' s just going to get hotter.Closer to home, theColorado River reservoirs are disappearing. This also means massive loss of agricultur...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 3, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Trial of NMN Supplementation in Older People
Levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) are relevant to mitochondrial function and decline with age for reasons that are only partially explored. Proximate causes are well outlined, the faltering of salvage and synthesis pathways due to lower levels of necessary molecules, but the connections to deeper causes of aging remain to be mapped. When it comes to NAD+ upregulation via vitamin B3 derivatives, boosting the operation of those pathways, there is more human data for nicotinamide riboside (NR) than for nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), so it is interesting to see the trial data here. It remains a question as ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 3, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Commerce Continues to Gas Up Duties
Gabriella Beaumont-SmithPresident Biden and others in Washington areimploring U.S.-based oil and gas companies to increase drilling and production to help temperrising energy prices. The administration even tried enticing these companies byresuming plans for oil and gas development on federal lands. But many of the largest firms are refusing to start new projects on the grounds that they cannot achieve a sustainable return on potential investments. One important factor in these investment decisions is production costs, which can make the difference for a project’s viability and are rising in the current inflationary e...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 2, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
