Nanowire Assay Detects Brain Tumors from Urine
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have developed a nanowire assay that can be used to capture and detect specific extracellular vesicles in a urine sample that indicate the presence of a brain tumor. These extracellular vesicles are naturally excreted in the urine but techniques to capture and analyze them have been complex, requiring different pieces of equipment, until now. This all-in-one assay uses a simple well plate that has been coated with zinc oxide nanowires that extracellular vesicles are attracted to because of their surface electrical charge. Then, the researchers can detect tumor-specific extracellula...
Source: Medgadget - February 14, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Materials Oncology Pathology nagoyacity_univ NagoyaUniv Source Type: blogs
Japan's Long-Awaited Return to Geopolitics
In very short order, Japan moved to change decades of strategic thinking and embark on a new approach to security. The stark reality of geopolitics and the realization that what was once hypothetical is now possible were likely enough to convince Japan that the time for a new approach to its security is now. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 6, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Jeffrey W. Hornung Source Type: blogs
Japan's Strategic Shift: Significant, but Implementation Hurdles May Await
Japan ' s new strategic documents appear to demonstrate a recognition in Tokyo that it must do more for its own defense in the face of unprecedented security challenges. The dedication of resources, pursuit of new capabilities, and overarching commitment to a more robust defense are all significant moves that represent landmark change by one of America ' s key allies. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 27, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Jeffrey W. Hornung; Christopher B. Johnstone Source Type: blogs
115 Badass Quotes To Supercharge Your Motivation
Sometimes you just need something to jolt you.
Something that will give you a big boost of motivation and get you back on the right track towards your goals and dreams with your focus resharpened.
So in today’s post I’d like to share the 115 most powerful, motivational and best badass quotes.
To kick your energy levels up a notch or three, supercharge your motivation and to release your inner badass so you get moving confidently towards what you want and need in your life.
And if you want even more motivating and uplifting inspiration then check out this post with quotes on encouragement and this one filled with you a...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - January 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
The Role of Education In Health Policy Reform Outcomes: Evidence From Japan
This study analyzes the role of education in the outcomes of the reform of the Japanese annual health checkup program. In April 2008,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 22, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Only 45 Percent of Employment ‐Based Green Cards Went to Workers in 2021
Alex NowrastehThe immigration system of the United States favors family reunification even in the so-called employment-based (EB) green card categories. Under current interpretations of U.S. immigration law, family members of immigrant workers must use EB green cards. The American system isn ’t unusual as Japan is the onlyOECD country with more immigrant workers than immigrant family members. Still, the difference is larger in the United States than in other countries. Instead of a separate green card category for the spouses and children of workers, those family members get a green card thatwould otherwise have gone to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 12, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Playing the Long Game in U.S.-China Relations
John MuellerRush Doshi is currently Director for China in the Biden ’s administration’s National Security Council. In his 2021 book,The Long Game: China ’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order, he examines that strategy and darkly concludes, rather tentatively, that the Chinese “might” be seeking to establish an “order” that would “involve the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Japan and Korea, the end of American regional alliances, the effective removal of the U.S. Navy from the Western Pacific, deference from China’s regional neighbors, unification with Taiwan, and the resolution of territorial disput...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 9, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: John Mueller Source Type: blogs
Japanese'Counterstrike' May Be Good for ROK Security
Fully coordinated, the South Korean Kill Chain and Japanese counterstrike capability could be more effective in stopping North Korea from causing damage. And they could be more likely to deter Kim Jong-un, as Pyongyang recognizes that its efforts to militarily dominate the ROK are unlikely to succeed. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 28, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Bruce W. Bennett Source Type: blogs
The Constitution, Health, and Culture in America
By MIKE MAGEE
“The Right to Health Care and the U.S. Constitution.” On the surface, it sounds like a straightforward topic – a simple presentation. But a gentle scratch at the surface reveals a controversy that literally dates back 250 years and more. Is it a “right”, a “privilege”, or simply a “necessity?”
I’m not a lawyer or Constitutional scholar. But I do know health care, its history, and its many strengths and weaknesses. What does our Constitution have to do with health care? The answer: That depends on how broadly you define “health.”
Before we were ever a nation, there existed...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy George Washington Health care for all Marshall Mike Magee US Constitution Source Type: blogs
Top 8 Most Controversial Stories About Medical Innovations
I spend my days monitoring progress, analysing new trends, and learning about spectacular new initiatives. Needless to say: not just me, but the whole team of The Medical Futurist is fascinated by what we learn. And then sometimes there is a story that just melts the fuses at one or more team members – and our readers.
Below I picked 8 of our favourite controversial stories from – almost exclusively – this year. It’s important to note that controversial doesn’t equal bad/useless. Sometimes it’s just not widely accepted (yet) and so exotic that they can surely provide a unique talking point at a...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF 3d printing AI artificial intelligence bioprinting digital health CRISPR designer baby designer babies robotics in healthcare assisted dying DIY blood draw DIY blood test medical innovation deepfake Source Type: blogs
Japan's Upcoming Defense Efforts
The Japanese government looks set to release three important documents shortly: a new National Security Strategy and two defense documents that lay out spending priorities over the next ten years and five years. In preparation for the release of these documents, here are six areas that could be candidates not only to receive a greater prioritization of resources, but also greater scrutiny. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 13, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Jeffrey W. Hornung Source Type: blogs
A Thanksgiving Sweet Potato Bake-Off
I hope your Thanksgiving was as wonderful as mine. We did our usual back-to-back Thanksgiving dinners, shuttling between mine and Mr. TBTAM’s families, trying not to eat too much or too little at either one.
This year, my family eschewed the homemade turkey and instead had a relaxed luncheon at the Valley Green Inn situated on Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley Forbidden Drive, one of my favorite places in the whole world.
I’ve biked, hiked, walked, or run that trail countless times over the years, alone and with friends and family. The place is so special to us that my sister Fran’s a...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 26, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Vegetables Candied Goguma Japanese sweet potatoes Korean sweet potatoes Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
One Person ’ s Trash …
BY KIM BELLARD
Gosh, so much going on. Elizabeth Holmes was finally sentenced. FTX collapsed. Big Tech is laying off workers at unprecedented rates, except TikTok, which should, indeed, be cautionary. Elon Musk’s master plan for Twitter remains opaque to most of us. Americans remain contentedly unworried about the looming COVID wave.
With all that to choose from, I want to talk about space debris. More specifically, finding opportunity in it, and in other “waste.” As the old saying goes, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, so one person’s problems ar...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Debris Remediation Elizabeth Holmes Space Source Type: blogs
poem
Phone Tree You have reached my voicemailIf this is an emergency please hang up and dial 911If this is not an emergency please consider hanging up and not dialing 911. If this is about that time I oughtto have done the thing we both know,in retrospect, I should have done please press “2”If this is simply a butt dial know that I don ’t believe in butt dialsand will go to my grave assuming you intentionally calledbut panicked last minute when it came time to say the thing you meant to say If this is a solicitor wanting me to sell my soul for the chanceof re-purchasing that very same soulsometime dow...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - November 20, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Danger Alert: A.I. Is Writing Content, But It ’s Lying – Let Us Show You How
There is a growing number of A.I. text generators around the web, offering more or less the same.
You give a brief of your planned content and maybe some keywordsSet the parameters, like the language, the tone of the text and the creativity levelHit enterVoila, you get your blog post/article/marketing copy/whatever
Isn’t it amazing? Writing a good text takes effort, so outsourcing it to A.I. could save us a ton of time in researching and crafting content.
Before you quickly lay off all your writers, let me show through a few examples of why trusting A.I. with content is dangerous as of now. TLDR spoiler: it ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI AI text generator synthetic media AI in heaalthcare Source Type: blogs
