Friday Feature: Great Minds School
Colleen Hroncich“Every child deserves an excellent education,” says Steven Shadel, Director ofGreat Minds Schools. “In the aftermath of COVID-19, many families want that education to be virtual. Some are motivated by safety concerns, others like the flexibility it offers. Whatever their motivation, families increasingly need high‐quality virtual education options.”Founded in 2007 by a group of education advocates,Great Minds is an award ‐winning curriculum provider. A few years ago, company leaders began planning a tuition ‐free virtual school option that would utilize the Great Minds ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 8, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
If You ’ ve Seen One Robot – Wait, What?
BY KIM BELLARD
If You’ve Seen One Robot – Wait, What?
We think we know robots, from the old school Robbie the Robot to the beloved R2-D2/C-3PO to the acrobatic Boston Dynamics robots or the very human-like Westworld ones. But you have to love those scientists: they keep coming up with new versions, ones that shatter our preconceptions. Two, in particular, caught my attention, in part because both expect to have health care applications, and in part because of how they’re described.
Hint: the marketing people are going to have some work to do on the names.
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Source: The Health Care Blog - April 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard robots SlimeBot Source Type: blogs
The (sort of, partial) Father mRNA Vaccines Who Now Spreads Vaccine Misinformation (Part 2)
By DAVID WARMFLASH, MD
This is part 2 of David Warmlash’s takedown of Robert W. Malone’s appearance (transcript) on the Rogan podcast. Part 1 is here
Menstruation and Fertility
Much more than the line about reproductive damage in the Wisconsin News clip that we used to open the story, Malone used the Rogan interview to dive more deeply into the topic, starting with:
…there’s a huge number of dysmenorrhea and menometrorrhagia…
By that, he meant excessive menstrual cramping and very heavy, often irregular, bleeding, which he followed up with:
…they DENY it…
Judging by other parts ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy antivaxxer COVID-19 vaccine David Warmflash Joe Rogan Robert Malone Source Type: blogs
Family medicine and the fight for the soul of health care
Timothy Hoff is a professor of management and author of Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink. Copyright 2022. Published with permission of Johns Hopkins University Press. There is a fight going on for the soul of not only American health care but health care everywhere. Primary care and family medicine areRead more …Family medicine and the fight for the soul of health care originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 1, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/timothy-hoff" rel="tag" > Timothy Hoff, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Laparoscopic Robot Performs First Autonomous Surgery
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University developed and now successfully tested the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR), a self-guiding surgical robot that can perform challenging laparoscopic procedures in gastrointestinal surgery, including intestinal anastomosis. The robot can adjust its surgical plan in real time, just as a human surgeon would, helping it to adapt to changing conditions during surgery. The researchers hope that such technology can allow every patient to enjoy the potential for optimal surgical outcomes, regardless of the surgical skill and experience that is available in their locality.
Surgical robo...
Source: Medgadget - February 3, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: GI Surgery johnshopkins Source Type: blogs
Mandatory SARS-CoV-2 Vaccinations in K-12 Schools, Colleges/Universities, and Businesses
Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown University), Jana Shaw (SUNY), Daniel Salmon (Johns Hopkins University), Mandatory SARS-CoV-2 Vaccinations in K-12 Schools, Colleges/Universities, and Businesses, J. Am. Med. Ass ’n. (2021): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued guidance that fully... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 1, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Protocol for 'What Does the First XX Studies Tell Us about the Effects of Lockdowns on Mortality? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of COVID-19 Lockdowns'
Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung (Lund University), Steve H. Hanke (Johns Hopkins University), Protocol for 'What Does the First XX Studies Tell Us about the Effects of Lockdowns on Mortality? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of COVID-19 Lockdowns', SSRN (2021): In... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 22, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
A national catastrophe
In the NYT,Mike Baker and Danielle Ivory offer an in-depth report on how the insane right-wing response to the Covid-19 pandemic has decimated the nation ' s public health infrastructure. You really need to use one of your free reads on this, it ' s too much to summarize. But the keystone is this:When the pandemic first hit the northern edge of Washington ’s Olympic Peninsula, Dr. Berry was a popular family physician and local health officer, trained in biostatistics and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. She processed Covid-19 test kits in her garage and delivered supplies to people in quarantine, leading a mobil...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 18, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Blind And Sighted People Understand Colour Similarly
This study wonderfully illustrates that blind and sighted people share common knowledge about colour. Though the two groups differ in some domains — particularly when it comes to associative knowledge about the colour of objects (eg. bananas are yellow) — they are largely similar in their understanding of the natural occurrence and application of colours. Blind individuals are able to draw upon deep understandings of how colours function, and make inferences about totally new objects based on their category alone, in a way that closely resembles those with sight.
The authors take this data to suggest that those livi...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Perception Source Type: blogs
Navajo Students Engage With Public Health Research Through NARCH
Navajo students are contributing to public health efforts in diabetes, COVID-19, domestic violence, and maternal and child health through the Navajo Native American Research Center for Health (NARCH) Partnership. “Our goal is to really enhance the educational pathways available to Navajo students from high school to graduate school and beyond,” says Mark Bauer, Ph.D., a co-director of the Navajo NARCH Partnership and professor at Diné College—a tribal college on the Navajo Nation. (Diné means “the people” and is how Navajo people refer to themselves in their native language.)
An Introduction to Public He...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 25, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist COVID-19 Training Source Type: blogs
Biology Beyond the Lab: Using Computers to Study Life
Learn more about Dr. Melissa Wilson’s computational biology research in another Biomedical Beat blog post. Credit: Jacob Sahertian, ASU.
“You’re not going to be able to do biology without understanding programming in the future,” Melissa Wilson, Ph.D., an associate professor of genomics, evolution, and bioinformatics at Arizona State University, said in her 2019 NIGMS Early Career Investigator Lecture. “You don’t have to be an expert programmer. But without understanding programming, I can assert you won’t be able to do biology in the next 20 years.”
A growing number of researchers, like Dr. Wils...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 11, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Tools and Techniques Bioinformatics Computational Biology Cool Tools/Techniques Profiles Source Type: blogs
Introduction and Geographic Availability of New Antibiotics Approved Between 1999 and 2014
Kevin Outterson (Boston University), Eili Y. Klein (Johns Hopkins University), Morten Lindb æk (University of Oslo), John-Arne Røttingen (Norwegian Knowledge Center for the Health Services), Introduction and Geographic Availability of New Antibiotics Approved Between 1999 and 2014, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205166 (2018): Despite the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 6, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
DARPA-funded nonsurgical neurotechnologies push the frontier of brain-machine interfaces
This article will first overview the DARPA program and the basics of these three programs. Then, a look at the common electronics technologies that are being used in biotechnology at Rice University. Keep reading excellent article HERE, over at All About Circuits.
About DARPA’s N3 program:
Six paths to the nonsurgical future of brain-machine interfaces (DARPA):
Back in 2019, DARPA awarded funding to six organizations to support the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program, first announced in March 2018. Battelle Memorial Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ...
Source: SharpBrains - June 9, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Peak Performance Technology & Innovation BCI brain brain-to-brain communication cognitive-skills DARPA human-machine interfacing neural-activity neuroplasticity Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology noninvasive neurotechnologie Source Type: blogs
How U.S. Government Paper Currency Began, and How Private Banknotes Ended
Lawrence H. WhiteA couple months ago, in arguing that “The Fed should give everyone a bank account,” journalistMatt Yglesias cited what he took to be an instructive precedent: “Once upon a time, governments didn’t issue paper currency, and instead banknotes were printed privately by banks. But over time, we came to see this as a worthwhile public service.” His first sentence is certainly correct. Banknotes were redeemable paper claims on the issuing banks, which c irculated as currency. Systems of freely competitive note‐issueworked quite well, as in Canada and Scotland, with the notes of different banks ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 20, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
Paying People to Take the Vaccine - Would it Help or Backfire?
Christopher T. Robertson (Boston University), Daniel Scheitrum (University of Arizona), K. Aleks Schaefer (Michigan State University), Trey Malone (Michigan State University), Brandon R. McFadden (University of Delaware), Paul Ferraro (Johns Hopkins University), Kent D. Messer (University of Delaware), Paying People... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 26, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
