The Fight Against The Ever-Widening Health Gap Between Rich And Poor
According to a series of studies published in the Lancet, the wealthiest American women live approximately 10 years longer than their poorest counterparts, and this gap widens to a shocking 14,5 years for men. With these figures, the USA is the most unequal country in terms of health outcome among the OECD countries. And the outlook is not great either. Researchers warn us that this difference we now see between the top and bottom 1% is only going to grow. Without intervention, the difference in life expectancy between the richest and poorest 20% will expand to 10 years in a generation’s time.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - March 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Telemedicine & Smartphones health literacy democratised healthcare Source Type: blogs
… But There Are No Cases in Turkmenistan
written by Dr. Stephen A. Berger
If you search the Internet for countries which have reported COVID-19, an endless variety of sources will describe the status of this disease in 207 countries and their dependencies. Few if any of these sites mention countries where this disease does not exist!
As of April 19, GIDEON lists twenty-four countries (10.4% of the global total) that had not yet encountered a single case. Ironically, at this point, these countries enjoy a form of “medical isolation” – thanks to the disease itself! The chance that a traveler – let alone an infected traveler – can arrive in a new coun...
Source: GIDEON blog - April 19, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
Insane Doofus In Chief
So last night the IDINC, looking and sounding like a hostage video, woodenly read a speech from the teleprompter in which heportrayed the current public health crisis as a foreign invasion, falsely announced that insurance companies had agreed to waive co-pays for treatment, and bizarrely announced a travel ban from all European countries except that one where he owns resorts. Other than that, he contributed nothing to our currently fraught and painful public discourse.The travel ban is ridiculous. The virus is already here. The ban will however have severe economic consequences, which has driven the stock market to give u...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 12, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 22nd 2018
In this report, we propose that the molecular mechanisms of beneficial actions of CR should be classified and discussed according to whether they operate under rich or insufficient energy resource conditions. Future studies of the molecular mechanisms of the beneficial actions of CR should also consider the extent to which the signals/factors involved contribute to the anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and other CR actions in each tissue or organ, and thereby lead to anti-aging and prolongevity.
RNA Interference of ATP Synthase Subunits Slows Aging in Nematodes
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Source: Fight Aging! - October 21, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Any and All Trend Projection Models Showing Slow, Incremental Future Increases in Longevity are Simply Wrong
This open access paper is an example of a model of future life expectancy that projects existing trends, with a little variation in here and there based on whether or not public health measures related to smoking and diet prove to be more successful or less successful. It predicts an average global increase in life expectancy of 4 to 5 years by 2040. In recent years I would have said that this is probably incorrect. I think we are at the point now in the development of rejuvenation therapies at which I can say that it is definitely incorrect. Any study that fails to consider progress in the treatment of aging as a medical ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 18, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs’ June Issue: Markets, Prices, And Incentives
The June issue of Health Affairs, a variety issue, includes a number of articles examining how health care markets function — and how the policies that set prices create incentives for behavior, both desirable and undesirable. Another featured article examines incentives for public health in an area close to many of us: reducing teen driving fatalities.
The Top Fifty Highest-Markup Hospitals: Forty-Nine Are For Profit
In the United States, individual hospitals establish billing rates for services, which are not subject to any limit in most states. These rates are often several times the Medicare-allowable costs. Pat...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 8, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucy Larner Tags: Costs and Spending Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured Global Health Health Professionals Hospitals Medicare Payment Policy EHRs PEPFAR Teen Driving Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm - The Barn Swallows of Unity Farm
One of the side effects of creating the orchard at Unity farm was opening about 2 acres of airspace adjacent to our pasture. This has attracted many new species of birds which now dance and dive in the clearing between our woodland and marsh. Since adding the orchard we've seen a significant increase in our barn swallow population. Throughout the day, at least 5 adults dash at high speed around their own open air playground, eating mosquitos and enjoying their social community of birds.Our barn has two sliding doors which open to the male and female paddocks. The swallows retreat to the ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - July 18, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
