The New Deal and Recovery, Part 19: War, and Peace
George SelginThanks to the Roosevelt Recession, in the spring of 1938 the New Deal ' s " Keynesians " finally found themselves in the saddle, displacing the planners, reformers, and trust-busters whose legislative efforts had already run out of steam some months before. The Keynesians ' rise was symbolized by the $3 billion spending program FDR announced during hisfireside chat that April.[1]But the crisis that gave Keynesians the upper hand also proved fatal to the Roosevelt administration ' s more ambitious plans, Keynesian or otherwise. Thanks to it, voters sent many Democrats, and New Deal democrats especially, packing...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 14, 2022 Edition-----The biggest news this week was the assassination of the ex-PM of Japan – Shinzo Abe – who was a good friend to OZ incidentally.In the US we have had a wind-up to a busy summit season – NATO etc – and the ongoing war in Ukraine which is becoming a deepening, protracted and horrible situation which it seems hard to resolve sadly.In the UK Boris is out but not gone and the battle for the succession is off and rolling.In OZ we have Albo back and we need to work out what to mitigate these various natural disasters and actually get on with it!!!! The response has been pathetic so far I reckon!--...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
AI-Powered Robot Accelerates Medical Research
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have developed an AI-powered robotic system that can perform laboratory experiments in regenerative medicine, learn from the results, and perform iterative rounds of experimentation to achieve a certain goal.
In a proof-of-principle, the researchers set the robot the task of optimizing cell culture conditions to create a maximal number of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells. The robot improved the percentage of stem cells within a culture that differentiated into RPE cells from 50% to approximately 90% over six months of experimentation, and th...
Source: Medgadget - July 12, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: etc. Medicine News medical robotics RIKEN Source Type: blogs
Countries With Higher Interest Rates Have Higher Inflation
Alan ReynoldsA recent headline exclaimed: “Central Banks Should Raise Rates Sharply or Risk High‐Inflation Era,BIS Warns. ” The Bank for International Settlements is owned by 61 central banks, so they should know better than to equate higher interest rates with lower inflation.Countries with the lowestcentral bank interest rates (below zero) include Switzerland and Japan, according tothe BIS.Those with the highest policy rates include Argentina and Turkey, with rates of 49% and 14% respectively.Should we conclude that Argentina and Turkey are valiantly fighting inflation with high interest rates while Switzerland ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Mike Magee ’ s Advice to the AMA on Reversal of Roe vs. Wade
BY MIKE MAGEE
Stable, civic societies are built upon human trust and confidence. If you were forced to rebuild a society, leveled by warfare and devastation, where would you begin? This is the question the U.S. Army faced at the close of WW II, specifically when it came to rebuilding Germany and Japan, hopefully into stable democracies. The Marshall Plan answered the question above, and its success in choosing health services as a starting point was well documented by many in the years to come, including the RAND Corporation. Their summary in 2007 said in part, “Nation-building efforts cannot be successful unless a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Abortion AMA Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court Source Type: blogs
Health Tech Start-up Spry Secures New Investment to Further Strengthen Its Omnichannel Patient Management Platform for Physical Therapists
The round was led by Eight Roads Ventures with participation from F-Prime Capital and Together Fund.
Funds will be used to accelerate the company’s mission to build the future of practice management for physical rehabilitation
Spry, an end-to-end patient and practice management SaaS platform for physical therapists, today announced that it has successfully completed a new round of funding to accelerate its mission to build the future of practice management for physical rehabilitation. With this new round, the company has raised over US $10 million to date. The round was led by Eight Roads Ventures, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Brijraj Bhuptani Carl Byers Dr. Prem Pavoor EHR Funding Eight Roads Ventures F-Prime Capital Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Manav Garg Physical Therapy Practice Managemen Source Type: blogs
How IoT Medical Devices Save and Improve Lives
The following is a guest article by Erik Kling, Interim Head of IoT Americas at Vodafone Business.
IoT, or the Internet of Things, has transformed our homes with connected lights and smart appliances. It’s also revolutionized all areas of business, including manufacturing. Sensors connected to the internet can track goods throughout the supply chain — from sourcing materials to delivering completed products to consumers.
IoT technology has improved the way we live, but its most profound impact may be in healthcare, where it’s saving lives and improving health.
Before IoT revolutionized healthcare, doctors and care pr...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops AED American College of Cardiology Connected Defibrillators Continuous Glucose Monitors CPAP Dr. Ami Bhatt Elliot Erik Kling Healthcare AI Source Type: blogs
AI-Powered Surgical Robot Excels at Tricky Kidney Stone Procedure
Clinical researchers at Nagoya City University in Japan have tested an AI-powered surgical robot in its ability to assist with percutaneous nephrolithotomy, which is a minimally invasive procedure to remove large kidney stones. The technique involves accessing the kidney through the skin, and typically requires a highly experienced surgeon. The robot, called the Automated Needle Targeting with X-ray (ANT-X) was developed by NDR Medical Technology, a medical startup based in Singapore. The company reports that the robot can assist with needle placement and can calculate needle targeting in a few seconds, using just one X-ra...
Source: Medgadget - June 21, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Radiology Urology nagoyacity_univ Source Type: blogs
The Infant Formula Crisis Argues for Less Government Intervention, Not More
Scott LincicomeYesterday, I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights on the topic of “Baby Formula and Beyond: The Impact of Consolidation on Families and Consumers ” and — given today’stroubling news about continued production problems at Abbott Laboratories ’ plant in Michigan — the hearing couldn’t have been more timely. Everyone at the hearing agreed that shortages in the United States have been caused in no small part by the current concentration of U.S. infant formula production among Abbott and three other companies: when A...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Nocturnal hypertension : Something Important is being cooked in the hypertensive world !
Some physics: Why is blood under pressure?
In perfect vascular climatic conditions, the human circulatory system is comparable to a smooth flowing river irrigating 100 trillion cells, traversing many kilometers of the capillary network, to the far away tissue bed. One major difference in the river analogy is, that in human biology, the entire blood has to return back to the heart in about 30 seconds. (The fact that the venous system does this in style with near-zero pressure head is the greatest wonder in circulatory physiology)
The force per unit area, that drives the blood is the blood pressure. It is expressed...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - June 12, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Hypertension systemic hypertension acc aha esc hypertension guidelines dippers non dippers melatonin for nocturnal hypertension night time bp reverse dipper Source Type: blogs
Simple solutions for social connections
When Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa acquired the company that makes Lovot, a pet-sized robot for emotional support, it spoke about more than a financial investment in robotics. The news was tied to love, companionship, and healing. It also revealed the global loneliness and social isolation pandemic. The use of assistive robots is gaining popularity in JapanRead more …Simple solutions for social connections originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 11, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/grisel-rodriguez-morales" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Grisel Rodriguez-Morales, LCSW < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Here ’s how our visual system decides how cute a baby is
By Emma Young
What makes one baby seem cuter than another (parental bias aside)? Large and round eyes, a small nose and mouth, a high and protruding forehead, chubby cheeks and soft skin have all been associated with cuteness, not just in babies but puppies, kittens, dolls and Japanese anime and manga characters. But now a new paper in Emotion suggests that another factor has an impact: the “spatial frequency” of what we see.
Our visual system uses spatial frequencies to rapidly process variations in relative light and dark in an image. “Low” spatial frequencies convey coarse informa...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Babies Perception Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
June 09, 2022 Edition-----The Russian war on Ukraine is now well over 100 days old. The destruction and deaths are just awful and the world is being seriously re-shaped. Where this ends is unknowable but unlikely to be good.In the US we are seeing almost daily mass shootings and no-one seems to know what to do. Just pathetic.In the UK the hangover is slowly lifting after the 4 day royal celebration.In OZ we are having an energy crisis which we hope we will find solutions for soon!-----Major Issues.------https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/australias-labor-government-faces-a-whole-new-economic-ball-game/news...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Desktop Air Curtain Blocks Infectious Aerosols
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have developed a desktop air curtain system that prevents aerosols, such as airborne COVID-19 particles, from passing through it. The technology improves on some existing air curtain solutions that can create turbulent flow, resulting in the escape and spread of aerosols. The desktop device contains a dedicated suction port which draws air and aerosols into it, helping to reduce air dispersion. The researchers also hope to incorporate a UV sanitation system that will destroy particles in the recycled air. They also envisage that the device could be useful for reception areas and ot...
Source: Medgadget - May 31, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Public Health AIP NagoyaUniv Source Type: blogs
Robot touch makes people feel good — especially when accompanied by robot small talk
By Matthew Warren
For many of us, the past two years have demonstrated how important the touch of others is to our emotional wellbeing — and how hard it is to go without it. But in the absence of physical contact from other humans, could robots provide an adequate substitute? Past work has found that robotic touch can elicit positive emotions in people — and now a new study in Scientific Reports finds that the effect is better when the robots talk at the same time.
Taishi Sawabe from Nara Institute of Science and Technology and colleagues tested the effects of robotic touch and speech on 31 Japanese volunt...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 31, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Technology Source Type: blogs
