More Industrial Policy Won ’t Solve the Jones Act’s Many Problems
Colin Grabow andScott LincicomeWe at Cato have been happy to see a growing list of public officials, policy analysts, and everyday Americans join us in recognizing the Jones Act’s many problems. Among these new critics is the Niskanen Center, which last week publishedan essay characterizing theJones Act—a 1920 law restricting domestic waterborne transport to vessels that are U.S.-flagged, U.S.-built and mostly U.S.-owned and crewed—as “outdated industrial policy”. The Jones Act, the Niskanen piece added, is out of touch with economic reality, does not support the U.S. maritime industry, an d fails to advance na...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow, Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 23rd 2023
This study explored the association between tap drinking water and longevity in Cilento, Italy, to understand whether trace elements in local drinking water may have an influence on old, nonagenarian, and centenarian people and promote their health and longevity.
Data on population and water sources were collected through the National Demographic Statistics, the Cilento Municipal Archives, and the Cilento Integrated Water Service. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and a geographically weight regression (GWR) model were used to study the spatial relationship between the explanatory and outcome variables of long...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Exploring Correlations Between Trace Elements in Drinking Water and Longevity
This study explored the association between tap drinking water and longevity in Cilento, Italy, to understand whether trace elements in local drinking water may have an influence on old, nonagenarian, and centenarian people and promote their health and longevity.
Data on population and water sources were collected through the National Demographic Statistics, the Cilento Municipal Archives, and the Cilento Integrated Water Service. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and a geographically weight regression (GWR) model were used to study the spatial relationship between the explanatory and outcome variables of long...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Why Hospital Discharges Take So Long —And What We Can Do To Shorten Them
This article discusses some organizational and workflow measures that hospitals are taking to shorten discharge times, saving money along the way. A subsequent article will chime in with some technologies that help.
Factors Delaying Discharges
Where to begin? So many hospital activities were cited by respondents to my question that I can hope at best to summarize the most salient of them. I’ll run through the observations quickly in order to get to solutions, which boil down to “Think about what you’re doing.”
First, according to Donna Pritchard and Joy Avery of CipherHealth, a company with a commun...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System ABOUT Andrew Y Shin Care Managers Carta Healthcare Cindy Gaines CipherHe Source Type: blogs
Searching For The Next Search
By KIM BELLARD
I didn’t write about ChatGPT when it was first introduced a month ago because, well, it seemed like everyone else was. I didn’t play with it to see what it could do. I didn’t want it to write any poems. I didn’t have any AP tests I wanted it to pass. And, for all you know, I’m not using it to write this. But when The New York Times reports that Google sees ChatGPT as a “Code Red” for its search business, that got my attention.
A few months ago I wrote about how Google saw TikTok as an existential threat to its business, estimating that 40% of young people used it for searches. It wa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI ChatGPT Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
DEA Seizes Record Amounts of Fentanyl in 2022
Jeffrey A. SingerAxiosreports that the Drug Enforcement Administration seized 379 million doses of fentanyl in 2022, which included 50.6 million fentanyl ‐laced counterfeit prescription pain pills and more than 10,000 pounds of powdered fentanyl (which can be mixed in with cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin or used to make counterfeit prescription pain pills). AsDavid J. Bier and I wrote recently, the vast majority of these drugs are seized at legal border crossings, mostly smuggled in by U.S. citizens working for Mexican drug cartels.In its December 20announcement, the DEA stated:“In the past year, the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 21, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Xerox machine
2 Chronicles 2 is the same story as 1 Kings 5. There are some slight differences in language, which simply suggests that the chronicler was working from a different manuscript than the one that became canonized. (The title of this post is intended to be ironic because the point is, there weren ' t any copying machines, only human scribes whose copying was imprecise, whether accidentally or on purpose.) As usual, the numbers are ridiculous. The Tanakh seems to multiply everything by 10, approximately.2 [a]Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of theLord and a royal palace for himself.2 He conscripted ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 18, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Many Ways Bad Policy Worsens Your Daily Commute
Colin GrabowOne of the least enjoyable aspects of working is the process of actually getting to work. For nearly 85 percent of Americans, that means driving a car, truck, or some other vehicle an average of27.6 minutes each way. That compares to an average of25 minutes in the European Union and represents nearly an hour of each day that is mostly wasted. Millions more Americans, meanwhile, are stuck using mass transit systems that are unnecessarily costly, slow (average one-way bus commute time:46.6 minutes), or unreliable. The country can do better. As I explain in the new Cato Institute bookEmpowering the New American Wo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Fusion Schmusion
No doubt you have already encountered themassive hype by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of their claim that they have successfully extracted more energy from a fusion reaction than they put into it. I ' m not sure what technical level I should pitch this at -- I really don ' t know how much people in general understand about it. So I ' ll start with the basics. Please don ' t feel insulted if you already know this. You do probably know that Einstein mass and energy to be equivalent, that is they are convertible one into the other and are manifestations of the same underlying reality. You certainl...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 12, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The joy of having many data points
Researchers and clinicians are drawn to studies with many participants. Especially randomised controlled trials, where two groups are randomly divided and one gets “the real thing” while the other does not. The joy comes from knowing that results from these kinds of studies suggest that, all things being equal, the differences between the groups is “real” and not just by chance.
When we come to analyse the graphs from these kinds of studies, what we hope to see are two nice bell-shaped curves, with distinct peaks (the arithmetic mean) and long tails either side – and a clear separation betw...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - December 11, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice Uncategorized Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Health pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 12th 2022
In conclusion, selective removal of senescent dermal fibroblasts can improve the skin aging phenotype, indicating that BPTES may be an effective novel therapeutic agent for skin aging.
Non-Dividing Neurons Do In Fact Become Senescent, Impairing Brain Function
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/12/non-dividing-neurons-do-in-fact-become-senescent-impairing-brain-function/
Cellular senescence is generally thought of as a characteristic of replicating cells; it is an end state reached when telomeres, reduced in length with each cell division, become too short. This is followed by programmed cell death...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 11, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: All the gold on the planet
Ch. 29 is the last of 1 Chronicles, although as we know in the Tanakh it ' s one book. The division in two was made by medieval Christian monks. It ' s a logical break point however, with the death of David. The Chronicler also provides references at the end: The Book of Samuel the Seer, The Book of Nathan the Seer, and The Book of Gad the Seer. It makes sense to conclude that the first is the Book of Samuel that we know from the Deuteronomistic history, since the Chronicler has lifted from it a few times. On the other hand, although the book is named for Samuel, he actually dies about 1/3 of the way through so he can ' t ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 11, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Reviewing Work on CISD2, a Mammalian Longevity Gene
Few genes have been shown to robustly alter mammalian longevity as a result of altered expression, with data obtained primarily in mice. Klotho is perhaps the most well known and well studied of that small but steadily growing portfolio. The topic of today's open access paper is another of these longevity genes, CISD2. Loss of CISD2 shortens lifespan, while increased expression extends life span in mice. CISD2 is upregulated after exercise, and may act through autophagy, a common factor in many approaches shown to modestly slow aging in laboratory species. Like other approaches to upregulation of autophagy, increased CISD2...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 5, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Gene Pathway Analysis In Action – 3 × 4 DNA Test Review
In the past couple of years, I have taken at least 10 genetic tests, including this latest DNA test from 3×4 Genetics. This may seem excessive, but I have my reasons. I graduated from medical school as a genetic specialist and completed my PhD as a clinical genomics researcher, and although I turned to medical futurism, my original field never ceases to fascinate me. I’m very curious about how these tests advance and hope I might be able to provide insights for patients worldwide about what they can expect to learn from such tests and what those tests can really deliver.
Thus, I didn’t hesitate for a second to ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Genomics Personalized Medicine dna testing genetic test Genetic testing review dna test review 3x4 Genetics pathway analysis Source Type: blogs
Supplementing physical and mental health
I’ve always been wary of taking vitamins and other supplements. There are good reasons not to do so, if you have a reasonably balanced diet. Excesses of some vitamins and minerals can lead to problems like kidney and liver damage, kidney stones, and some can interfere with the absorption and activity of prescription medicines.
However.
I have been feeling rather tired in recent months, becoming unaccustomedly exhausted after even light activity. I’m talking after a short walk, but sometimes even just after a shower. Was it long-COVID, was it my medication, was it just me getting older?
Mrs Sciencebase had an ir...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 22, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Health and Medicine Source Type: blogs
