A Response to Scott Alexander
Scott Alexander (SA) has providedadvice to the free speech movement in general and to a student group at Harvard University in particular. If you want more people, especially on the liberal left or within the social justice movement, to support free speech, he says, then you should not invite speakers just because they are controversial.SA picks AEI scholar and social scientist Charles Murray as an example. In March, protesting students at Middlebury College shut down Murray when he was invited to speak and debate a local professor. SA defends Murray ’s right to speak, but says that if a college invites him or any other ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 17, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Flemming Rose Source Type: blogs
“I am excited”: Making Stress Work for You, Instead of Against You
Image: The Yerkes-Dodson Law (YDL)
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How much stress is good for you?
In 1908, Robert Mearns Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson designed an experiment that would begin to tackle the question, “How much stress is good for you?”
The researchers tracked mice to see how stress would affect their ability to learn. Simple—yet painful, because how do you stress out mice? You shock them. The researchers set up two corridors to choose from—one painted white and the other black—and if a mouse went down the black corridor, ZAP! Yerkes and Dodson observed that given too mild a shock, the mice just shrugged it off and kept ...
Source: SharpBrains - April 17, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dan Lerner & Dr. Alan Schlechter Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Peak Performance Professional Development ability ability to learn alertness anxiety mind physiology Stress work Yerkes-Dodson Law Source Type: blogs
People Post: Staff And Board Changes In Health Philanthropy
The Northern Virginia Health Foundation’s board has appointed three new directors. They are Gloria Addo-Ayensu, director of health for Fairfax County, Virginia (the “most populous county in both Virginia and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area,” according to the county’s website); Ilka Chavez, acting deputy regional health administrator, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Region III; and Marsha Lillie-Blanton, a senior policy adviser at the Children and Adults Health Program Group, Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, Centers for Medicare and Medica...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lee-Lee Prina Tags: GrantWatch Medicaid and CHIP Public Health Quality Source Type: blogs
Discussion on Open Payments by Philadelphia-Region Doctors
An article in the Philadelphia Business Journal published in early January 2017 focused on Open Payments and payment information available to the public, and how the public availability of the data is affecting doctors and the way they treat patients.
According to the article, Dr. Stanley Schwartz is on a mission to change how physicians treat diabetic patients. The Ardmore endocrinologist, an advocate for reducing the use of insulin in diabetics in favor of other medicine regimens, placed 15th in a ranking of area physicians who received non-research payments from drug companies and medical-device makers.
"To me t...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 5, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Radiologists Offer Their Predictions on Federal Healthcare Law Under Trump
The new Republican administration is determined to dismantle the Affordable Care Act by 2018. Yet, for the moment, the future of health insurance in the U.S. is murky as GOP lawmakers try to devise a functional alternative. In the latestissueof theJournal of the American College of Radiology, three radiologists with public policy backgrounds weigh in with their thoughts on what theTrump administration means for the ACA and its corresponding agencies and programsAndrew Rosenkrantz, MD, MPA of New York University, Joshua Hirsch, MD, of Harvard and Gregory Nicola, MD, Vice President of Hackensack Radiology Group in New Jersey...
Source: radRounds - February 1, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
3 Steps to Enlightenment: The Path of Surrender
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Have you ever dreamed about going off to an ashram in India, hoping to get your life clearly sorted out once and for all, as Elizabeth Gilbert did in Eat, Pray, Love? Have you secretly dreamed that one day you will land in some sacred place and feel miraculously in tune and connected, such that all of your life’s troubles disappear?
The illusion that we can fix our life by abandoning it is admittedly very t...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: iaszaabi Tags: featured philosophy self improvement best self-improvement blogs contentment enlightenment how to surrender find happiness full heart pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Interim FDA Commissioner Announced
Dr. Robert Califf’s tenure as commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is slated to come to an end ahead of the January 20th inauguration of Donald Trump as president. Deputy commissioner Dr. Stephen Ostroff is expected to take over on an interim basis after the inauguration. Ostroff has previously been acting commissioner – from April 2015 to February 2016 he served as acting commissioner. Once Califf was sworn in, Ostroff became the FDA’s deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine.
Califf Permanent Replacement
Scott Gottlieb
The leading candidate to replace Califf is said t...
Source: Policy and Medicine - January 18, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Why conservatives like to use nouns more than liberals do
By Christian Jarrett
Our political leanings to the right or left reveal a fundamental aspect of our psyche: how much we’re drawn to stability and security versus change and uncertainty. This manifests in our attitudes and personality traits. For instance, on average, conservatives tend to prefer established hierarchy and are more conscientious. Liberals favour equality and are more open to new experiences. Now in the journal Political Psychology a group led by Aleksandra Cichocka at the University of Kent has extended this line of work by showing the link between political orientation and desire for certainty is...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: In Brief Language Political Source Type: blogs
ACA Round-Up: Enrollment Report, Repeal Efforts, And More (Updated)
This report is intended to counter recent claims that the individual insurance market is in a “death spiral, collapsing of its own weight.” The report first asserts that continued growth in individual market enrollment, as reported in the contemporaneous CMS report, establishes that 2017 premium increases are not having substantial adverse effects on individual market enrollment. Because premium increases are largely covered by increased premium tax credits for most enrollees, the premium increases are not deterring consumers from coverage. Enrollment is essentially growing at the same rate in areas with high as compar...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 11, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage advance premium tax credits open enrollment risk corridor payments Source Type: blogs
Health Law at AALS 2017
Next week, in San Francisco, there is a plethora of health law related programming at the 111th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools.
THURSDAY, JAN 5
Health Law and Health Equity8:30 am – 10:15 amContinental Ballroom 5, Ballroom Level, HiltonModerator and Speaker: Elizabeth Pendo, Saint Louis University School of LawSpeakers:Daniel Dawes, Executive Director, Government Relations, Policy & External Affairs, Morehouse School of MedicineDayna B. Matthew, University of Colorado Law SchoolCourtney Anderson, Georgia State University College of Law Medha D. Makhlouf, The Pennsylvania ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 28, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
College Prep Program for Students With Autism Reaps Results
NPR recently interviewed a graduating senior attending high school in Brooklyn, New York. What’s interesting about this success story is that the star student has autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Colin Ozeki will graduate with “an advanced degree” and plans to attend college, according to the article. He credits his academic—along with social—success in high school to a program called ASD Nest.
ASD Nest gets support from New York City’s Department of Education and the New York University Nest Support Project. ASD Nest places students with ASD in general education classrooms with added support from educators wh...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 21, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: News Speech-Language Pathology Autism Spectrum Disorder Source Type: blogs
Why Privacy Must Die
By ART CAPLAN
I just finished my required training about the protection of patient privacy. Every employee of New York University Langone Medical Center must take an online course and pass an admittedly not very difficult quiz as to our duties regarding patient privacy. All other American medical centers have the same requirement. I passed my quiz. But, despite my certification, I think the effort to protect privacy in health care is a lost cause. It is time to admit that privacy in health care is dead. Confessing that privacy has passed on, while reporting a death is often very sad, has many benefits. Not on...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Ralph Raico, RIP
I was saddened by the news of Ralph Raico ’s passing on December 13.At Cato summer seminars during the 1980s, he delivered fabulous lectures about the history of liberty and its adversaries. He focused on European intellectual history and the development of classical liberalism. He was clear, concise and passionate, and his talks sparkled with memorable details. I still cherish audio cassettes of those lectures.Ralph attended the Bronx High School of Science, earned a B.A. at the City College of New York, and joined the New York libertarian underground during the 1950s. His friends included Ronald Hamowy, Leonard Liggio,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 14, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Jim Powell Source Type: blogs
Divided America – How Can It Heal?
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt gives a post-election TEDx Talk in conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson to address the question: can a divided America heal?
With emotions running high all along the political spectrum it’s helpful to get some insight based on psychological science.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies morals informing political choices. In this video he describes patterns of thinking and historical roots leading to to sharp divisions in America. He also provides hope in a vision of how American might move forward and heal.
Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at ...
Source: Channel N - November 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: sandra at psychcentral.com (Sandra Kiume) Sandra Kiume Tags: All General Lecture america brain culture election politics psychology social TEDx video Source Type: blogs
