What Instability at the Top Means for Japan's Alliance with the United States
Having shorter-serving prime ministers tends to minimize Japan ' s ability to operate as a strategic player. The longer the tenure, the greater the confidence in exercising a broader set of foreign policy tools. If Suga ' s resignation is the start of revolving-door prime ministers, the implications for Japan ' s security and foreign policies, and the U.S.-Japan alliance, could be significant. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 22, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Jeffrey W. Hornung Source Type: blogs
We Think We ’ve Changed More In The Past Than We Will Change In The Future — And Americans Seem Particularly Susceptible To This Illusion
By Emma Young
Think about what you were like 10 years ago. How have you changed, in terms of values, life satisfaction and personality? Now picture yourself 10 years in the future. Do you think you’ll be just as different then as you were a decade in the past?
When asked about past vs future change, most people — no matter what their age — report more change over a period of time in the past than they predict for the same period into the future. This “End of History Illusion” has been well-documented, at least, among WEIRD populations. Now Brian W. Haas at the University of Georgia, US, and Kazufum...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 21, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Illusions Time Source Type: blogs
The Missile Arms Race on the Korean Peninsula Heats Up
Eric GomezIt has been a very busy week for missile tests on the Korean peninsula. North Korea testeda new type of ground ‐launched cruise missile to start the week and launchedtwo short ‐range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) a couple days later. South Korea tested a newconventional submarine ‐launched ballistic missile only a few hours after North Korea ’s SRBM test. South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense also released video footage of several new missile systems, including a supersonic anti ‐ship cruise missile, anair ‐launched land attack cruise missile, and a&nbs...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
More Laughing, More Thinking
By KIM BELLARD
There was a lot going on this week, as there always is, including the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the beginning of the NFL season, so you may have missed a big event: the announcement of the 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Awards (no, those are not typos).
What’s that you say — you don’t know the Ig Nobel Awards? These annual awards, organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, seek to:
…honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in scie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Research health research Ignobel Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Health Profile for England: 2021
Public Health England -The 2021 edition of the Health Profile for England provides aa overview of the health of people in England and updates indicators presented in previous reports. It also contains a summary of the wider impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on many aspects of health and health inequalities. In addition, the report makes comparisons with health in a selection of other countries (US, Canada, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland) where possible.Statistical reportPublic Health England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 15, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 13th 2021
In this study, mature DCs (mDCs), generated from the GM-CSF and IL-4 induced bone marrow cells, were intravenously injected into wild-type mice. Three days later, assays showed that the mDCs were indeed able to return to the thymus. Homing DCs have been mainly reported to deplete thymocytes and induce tolerance. However, medullary TECs (mTECs) play a crucial role in inducing immune tolerance. Thus, we evaluated whether the mDCs homing into the thymus led to TECs depletion. We cocultured mDCs with mTEC1 cells and found that the mDCs induced the apoptosis and inhibited the proliferation of mTEC1 cells. These effects were onl...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 12, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Japan's Potential Acquisition of Ground-Launched Land-Attack Missiles: Implications for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance
If Japan acquired ground-based strike capabilities, it would have significant consequences for the U.S.-Japanese alliance. American and Japanese policymakers may need to have a new and expanded set of conversations about how such capabilities would be used and how the alliance could adjust to incorporate them. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 9, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Jeffrey W. Hornung; Scott W. Harold Source Type: blogs
Altos Labs Formed to Work on the Treatment of Aging
It remains to be seen as to whether Altos Labs is the new, large venture that patient advocates for the treatment of aging have been alluding to cryptically in recent months. It is apparently backed by a number of the high net worth individuals in the Left Coast business and philanthropy communities who are known to have a growing interest in the application of biotechnology to aging. Sadly, recent history suggests we should not expect much from such initiatives. Neither the Ellison Medical Foundation nor Calico Labs have done more than take on more of the same fundamental research into the progression of aging that is car...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 6, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Are you squeamish about fermentation?
Including fermented foods in your diet is among the most important strategies you can adopt for bowel and overall health. It is so important that I tell people to include at least one, if not many, fermented foods in your daily routine.
Fermented foods literally come in thousands of different forms. Among the most familiar are yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, pickles, and fermented meats like salami and sopressata. (Note that most commercially sold sauerkraut, and pickles in the U.S. are not fermented, but simply packaged in vinegar and brine. Yogurt, and to a lesser degree, kefirs, are fermented for such a short time to hasten ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 3, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open bowel flora microbiota prebiotic probiotic undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Subsidies and Misplaced Shipbuilding Nostalgia
Colin GrabowReading some of the commentary, one could be forgiven for believing that the United States was a major commercial shipbuilding force in the post‐World War II era until it was brought low by the end of a particular subsidy in the early 1980s. Known as construction differential subsidies (CDS), they were meant to encourage domestic shipbuilding by bridging the difference in price between constructing ships in the United States and abroad (up to a maximum of 50 percent). With these subsidies in place, some argue, the country’s shipyards were in a vibrant state.The Brookings Institution ’s Aaron Klein...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 2, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 30th 2021
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Source: Fight Aging! - August 29, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
95% of Centenarians are Frail
Survival to 100 years of age is a rarity at the present time, but if the present slow upward trend in life expectancy continues, most people born today will live to 100 or more. That trend will, of course, not continue as-is. The past trend was due to incidental effects of public health measures and general progress in medicine on the mechanisms of aging. The trend in life expectancy will leap upwards with the advent of rejuvenation therapies that deliberately target the reversal and repair of those mechanisms. But that is a topic for another post.
Here, let us focus on what actually happens at the present time to p...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 27, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Public access defibrillation
This study showed that trained lay persons can use AEDs safely and effectively.
Nationwide dissemination of public access AEDs in Japan was reported in 2010 [1]. 312,319 adults who had out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were included in the study. 12,631 of these patients had ventricular fibrillation and cardiac origin witnessed cardiac arrest. 462 were administered shocks by lay persons with public access AEDs. Though this gave an average percentage of 3.7%, the percentage increased from 1.2% to 6.2% as the number of public access AEDs increased. 14.4% of those with witness cardiac origin cardiac arrest were alive at 1 month ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - August 17, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Following up on we're number last . . .
.The U.S. not only has the lowest life expectancy among the wealthy countries, it also has lower life expectancy than many low and middle income countries. In fact life expectancy in Cuba is higher than life expectancy in the U.S. Here ' s a snapshot of part of the list. (I expect that given its recent catastrophic problems, Lebanon has slipped. The country with the longest life expectancy at birth is Japan. I didn ' t know either -- Mayotte is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, an overseas department of France.) Cuba, despite being obviously a poor country and despite its governments many failings, has univers...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 5, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Immigration Can Offset U.S. Population Decline
Alex NowrastehThe U.S. population is growing slowly and the average age of Americans is increasing as a result. Although theUnited States is not as old as other countries and likely to age better, the future looks demographically grim. Somesocial scientists andcommentators think that boosting immigration can help delay or reverse those trends.Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, makes a series of sillyarguments against the notion that immigration can slow the aging of the U.S. population. Camarota ’s points below are in quotes and my responses follow.In reality, a si...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 2, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
