Gen Z ’s Mid-Life Crisis
By KIM BELLARD
These are not happy times in America.
Now, I’m not thinking about the increasing cultural wars, the endless political bickering, the troubles in the Med-East or Ukraine, the looming threat of climate crisis, or the omnipresent campaigning for the November 2024 elections, although all those play a part. I’m talking about quantifiable data, from the latest World Happiness Report. It found that America has slipped out of the top 20 countries for the first time, falling to 23rd – behind countries like Slovenia and the U.A.E. and barely ahead of Mexico or Uruguay.
Even worse, the fall in U.S. score...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Happiness Kim Bellard Mental Health Social Media Source Type: blogs
It Should Not Have Been a Surprise: The Threat from Putin's Russia
The recent NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, left the world asking a hard question:“Are we in a new Cold War with Russia?” Our answer is to a different, and harder, and more important question: Is Russia already at war with the West? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 1, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Andrew R. Hoehn; Thom Shanker Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 27: Deposit Insurance
ConclusionPart 27: Deposit Insurance_____________________[1] To this list we might add a fourth item, noted by Golembe in a subsequentinterview, to wit: that the deposit " insurance " provided for by the 1933 Banking Act wasn ' t really insurance at all. Unlike genuine insurance policies, it covers depositors for losses regardless of whether the losses were due to recklessness on their or their banks ' part. And unlike genuine insurance funds, the FDIC ' s insurance " fund " is an accounting fiction, the truth being that the " premiums " it collects from banks go into the federal government ' s general coffers. " The gover...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 27th 2023
This study tested the hypothesis that ischemic vascular repair in aging by Ang-(1-7) involves attenuation of myelopoietic potential in the bone marrow and decreased mobilization of inflammatory cells.
Young or Old male mice of age 3-4 and 22-24 months, respectively, received Ang-(1-7) for four weeks. Myelopoiesis was evaluated in the bone marrow (BM) cells by carrying out the colony forming unit (CFU-GM) assay followed by flow cytometry of monocyte-macrophages. Expression of pro-myelopoietic factors and alarmins in the hematopoietic progenitor-enriched BM cells was evaluated. Hindlimb ischemia (HLI) was induced by ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 26, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Insufficient Water Intake May Correlate with Increased Arterial Stiffness
As a companion piece to a recent discussion of whether mild dehydration is both quite prevalent and meaningfully impacts aspects of aging, one might look at this study of water consumption and vascular health in hyperuremic individuals. A relationship between lower water intake and arterial stiffness was only significant in women, but nonetheless it is interesting to see data that suggests at least some populations are harming themselves over the long term via too little water intake.
Hyperuricemia is defined as an elevated serum uric acid (sUA) level in the blood and is well-known as an independent risk factor fo...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
George Washington ’s Legacy and the Electoral Count Reform Act
Andy CraigOn this day in 1783, George Washington appeared before Congress at the statehouse in Annapolis to resign his military commission at the end of the Revolutionary War. In so doing, he created the first of a series of precedents establishing the peaceful, voluntary transfer of power in the United States, along with his decision to not seek a third term as president in 1796 and, four years later, when John Adams became the first president to concede defeat for re‐election.The significance of the moment was not lost at the time. Washington ’s former aide‐de‐camp, John Trumbull, wrote that his resig...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 23, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Andy Craig Source Type: blogs
Global Digital Health 100 – The Medical Futurist ’ s Top Choices in 2022
We first published the list of the Top 100 Digital Health Companies in 2017, highlighting the mindblowing growth the sector registered in the previous year. “Global digital health investments totalled more than 8 billion USD in 2016” – we wrote. Looking at the latest data, we better keep our seatbelts fastened: this figure was USD 57.2 billion in 2021, with a year-on-year growth of 79%.
Digital health is booming, with dozens, hundreds of startups and scale-ups entering the realm each year. While their spectacular promises are loud, failure is silent – unless it happens to one of the tech giants ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF bioprinting digital health Healthcare wearables top 100 telemedicine digital health companies remote care digital therapeutics Source Type: blogs
U.S. and World Economic Freedom Heading in Different Directions
Ian V ásquezTheEconomic Freedom of the World: 2021 Annual Report, released today by the Fraser Institute and co ‐published in the United States by the Cato Institute, documents a slight rise in global economic freedom, continuing a notable, long‐term, though decelerating, trend over the past several decades. The study is based on data through 2019, the most recent year for which there is internati onally comparable data, so it does not account for the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.Although the United States maintained its rank at 6th in this year ’s index, it is worrisome that its long‐term declin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 14, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Modeling the Legend, or, the Trouble with Diamond and Dybvig: Part II
George Selgin[This is the last half of a two-part critique of Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig ' s highly influential paper purporting to show that fractional reserve banking systems are inherently unstable. Part I can be foundhere.]Sauce for the Goose …Half a century after the fact, the " aggregate uncertainty " version of the Diamond-Dybvig model appeared at long last to offer solid proof of the inherent instability of ordinary banks, together with an equally solid foundation for government deposit insurance. But no sooner had the inspectors started poking their flashlights around that supposedly solid structure than ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 18, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Understanding Emotional Abuse
What are the signs of emotional abuse? Can you be a victim or a perpetrator and not even know it? In today’s podcast, we welcome psychotherapist Beverly Engel who explains how emotional abuse can sometimes slide under the radar and may even be mistaken as care. In truth, it’s all about control.
Join us for a nuanced discussion on the many forms of emotional abuse and how to detect it.
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Guest information for ‘Beverly Engel- Emotional Abuse’ Podcast Episode
Beverly Engel is an internationally recognized psychotherapist and an acclaimed advocate for victims of sexual, physical, and e...
Source: World of Psychology - November 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Abuse General Interview Podcast Relationships The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
Seeing Red Or Feeling Blue? People Around The World Make Similar Associations Between Colours And Emotions
By Emma Young
As an English-speaker, I might “see red” with anger, go “green” with envy or, on a bad day, “feel blue”. To me, it seems natural to associate certain colours with particular emotions — but is the same true for people around the world? And if so, do we all make the same emotion/colour matchings? These questions have been investigated in a new study, published in Psychological Science, which has produced some fascinating results.
An international team of 36 researchers, led by Domicele Jonauskaite at the University of Lausanne, analysed data gathered through the on...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Emotion Perception Source Type: blogs
Coronary collaterals in STEMI : Incidence, time of appearance , & Impact on outcome.
Coronary collateral circulation is one of the major determinants of symptoms and outcomes in chronic CAD. But, we generally shrug off the value of coronary collateral circulation in acute coronary syndrome. The fact is, it has a myocardial mitigating effect following sudden total occlusion.
When does it appear? We did a small analysis (PDF version)
We found it is noted in 25% of patients. With reference time of appearance, 6% had it within 12hrs and in few, it was noted as early as 6 hrs. One caveat is, we may not know whether its preexisting collateral due to chronic multivessel CAD. I am sorry to note this study did...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - August 12, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: acute coroanry syndrome acute coronary syndrome Coronary collateral circulation Uncategorized collaterals in stemi importance of coronary collaterals in acs nstemi research ideas in cardiology research topics in cardiology Source Type: blogs
Your Smartphone As The Swiss Knife Of Digital Health
7:39 a.m. That’s the time that your smartphone’s sonar deems as optimal for you to wake up today. With its gentle vibration from your bedside table, you pick it up to turn off the smart alarm. As you do so, your phone asks for your permission to use the built-in sensors and camera to run your routine morning scan. It analyzes your voice; evaluates your stress level based on a facial scan; checks your vital signs; and notifies you to take a picture of that mole on your forearm in order to detect any anomalies.
Thereafter, it outputs a comprehensible report with recommendations which you can send over to your ph...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 16, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Artificial Intelligence E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Telemedicine & Smartphones stress health trackers Huntington's Alzheimer's disease covid19 camera apple health google fit WHO hemoglobin SpO2 Samsung oximetry F Source Type: blogs
How Large Is American Government?
America ’s strong economic growth and high living standards were built on our relatively smaller government. U.S. per capita income is higher than nearly all major countries and our government spending is still somewhat less.However, America ’s lower-spending advantage has diminished. TheOECD publishes data on total federal-state-local government spending as a percentage of GDP for its member countries. The chart shows spending for the United States and for the simple average of 30 OECD countries which have data back to 1995. These are high-income countries such as Canada, Germany, and Japan.The chart shows that the Un...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
International Bioethics Retreat (Paris)
Discussion
Research EthicsChair: Matti Hayry, PhD, Aalto University, Helsinki, FINLAND
11:00 – 11:15 AM The Ethics of What, How, and Why: Lessons from Tuskegee, Manhattan, and Beyond Tuija Takala, PhD University of Helsinki, FINLAND
11:15 – 11:30 AM Pig Brains and Pig Lungs: Novel Research ModelsSteve Latham. JD, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
11:30 – 12:00 PM Group Discussion
12:00 – 1:30 PM Class Photo and Lunch in the Garden
In the ClinicChair: Leonard Fleck, PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
1:30 – 1:45 PM Code Status Ont...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 31, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
