Africa Is A Hotspot For Digital Health
Digital health in Africa is booming, and that’s the greatest news since the invention of broadband internet connection. The flourishing of disruptive solutions might go down to the fact that instead of relying on traditional infrastructure and a conventional healthcare system, populations in Africa need cheap, easily accessible and genuinely problem-solving technologies. Why, when and how have they got there? Read on!
Disrupted infrastructure should be …
Africa has the world’s worst health record. The birth-continent of the homo sapiens bears one-quarter of the global disease burden, yet it spends only 1 percent of t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 5, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy 3d printing Africa digital digital health digital technology Innovation mhealth mobile mobile health smartphone Source Type: blogs
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 220.
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The Adverts, a UK punk band in the 1970s wrote the song “Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes”. Who is Gary Gilmore and why would two people be looking through his eyes?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five aspergillum Ayahuasca basket case cornea transplant garlic gary gilmore lone star tick meat allergy otomycosis paul simon shaman swimmers ear Source Type: blogs
Counterinsurgency Math Revisited
When does 32,200 – 60,000 = 109,000? That seemingly inaccurate equation represents theestimated number of Islamist-inspiredterrorists when the war on terror began, how many the U.S.has killed since 2015, and the number thatfight today. And it begs the question of just how can the terror ranks grow so fast when they ’re being depleted so rapidly.As early as 2003, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hinted at the potential mathematical problem when he asked, “Are we capturing, killing, or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and dep...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 2, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall, Erik Goepner Source Type: blogs
All I Want for Christmas …Is Information about U.S. Military Deployments
2017 has been a year of massive expansion for the Global War on Terror, but you could be forgiven for not noticing. In addition to the media focus on the ongoing chaos in the Trump White House, the Pentagon has consistently avoided disclosing where and who America ’s armed forces are engaged in fighting until forced to do so.Take Syria, where the Pentagon long claimed that there wereonly 500 boots on the ground, even though anecdotal accounts suggested a much higher total. When Maj. General James Jarrardaccidentally admitted to reporters at a press conference in October that the number was closer to 4000, his statement w...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 11, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Emma Ashford Source Type: blogs
The Malady of Excessive Interventionism
There is a lot that ’s wrong with U.S. foreign policy right now, but a broader look at U.S. grand strategy in the post-Cold War era reveals just how broken things have been across administrations of both parties.The post-Cold War era has seen a continuation of along global trendtoward greater peace and stability,lower rates of conflict, and zero great power wars. More peace anddiminishing threats have merely enhanced theremarkable security already enjoyed by the United States thanks to its geographic isolation, weak neighbors, unparalleled economic and military power, and its nuclear deterrent.But America doesn ’t act ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 5, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
The Real Questions We Should Be Asking About Niger
In the wake of the deaths of four U.S. servicemen in Niger, Americans are embroiled in a pointless political squabble. The focus should be on developing a greater understanding of the risks and benefits of U.S. counterterrorism operations abroad. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - October 30, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Philip Mudd; Andrew Liepman Source Type: blogs
U.S. Helping Niger Halt Spread of Terror in Region
Niger is at the epicenter of the war on terror, with local and regional violent groups based there and entering the country from nearly every side. U.S. troops are there to train Niger ' s security services and not to fight. They are also assisting French forces who are fighting there. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - October 25, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Michael Shurkin Source Type: blogs
Travel Ban Is Based on Executive Whim, Not Objective Criteria
ConclusionFor countries on the list, and for any country wishing to remain off the list, it is vitally important that they understand which factors led to their inclusion or exclusion. If the United States is acting in good faith —seeking to change behavior as opposed to looking for an excuse to ban people—its criteria should be clearly explained and understood. The Iran nuclear deal, for example, hasvery precise requirements for Iran to avoid sanctions, down to the exact percentage of purity for its enriched uranium. This is very far from the case here.No consistent combination of factors or mitigating factors trigger...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Goldfinch – Carduelis carduelis
We’ve often put food out for the garden birds. Usually it’s starlings, house sparrows, and wood pigeons that attack the feeders, years ago we may have had one of the local black squirrels having a go. The dunnocks and our labrador hoover up the seeds that fall to the ground. I’d seen goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis, yet another tautonym meaning that this is the “type” of the family) flitting around the houses and occasionally landing on our TV aerial, but never landing on the feeders.
It seems the goldfinches are not so keen on sunflower seeds and other delicacies found in the generic 20 kg ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 1, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Muslims Rapidly Adopt U.S. Social Values
Concerns about Muslim assimilation made news again this week when Donald Trumperroneouslyclaimed that U.S. Muslim neighbors failed to report the San Bernardino shooters. But this persistent idea that U.S. Muslims are not assimilating could not be more inaccurate. In fact, U.S. Muslims —81 percent of whom are immigrants or children of immigrants —are the most socially liberal and religiously tolerant in the world and becoming more so with each passing year.U.S. Muslims Are Adopting Americans ’ Liberal Social and Religious ViewsMore than 80 percent of Muslim Americans are immigrants or the children of immigrants, accor...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 26th 2016
This study included 647 patients 80 to 106 years of age who had audiometric evaluations at an academic medical center (141 had multiple audiograms). The degree of hearing loss was compared across the following age brackets: 80 to 84 years, 85 to 89 years, 90 to 94 years, and 95 years and older. From an individual perspective, the rate of hearing decrease between 2 audiograms was compared with age. The researchers found that changes in hearing among age brackets were higher during the 10th decade of life than the 9th decade at all frequencies for all the patients (average age, 90 years). Correspondingly, the annual rate of ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 25, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Greater Biological Repair and Maintenance in Long-Lived Ant Queens
Eusocial insects are distinguished by queens that share the same genes as the workers but that, in many species, have a far longer life span. The expression of genes associated with aging is very different in queens, something that has been observed in both ants and bees. Given this, these species can serve as a laboratory in which to gather evidence for and against a variety of hypotheses about aging, its causes, and the degree to which specific causes are important. This paper is one example among many:
Since senescence is a detrimental process with important societal and economic impacts, substantial effort has...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 19, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
“A woman rode her motorcycle across the Niger River in...
"A woman rode her motorcycle across the Niger River in #Bamako, Mali. When Islamic radicals forcefully occupied northern #Mali in 2012, they imposed strict Shariah law. For nine months, women were forced to remain indoors and wear full body and face-covering veils. @katieorlinsky, who traveled there in the fall of 2013, sought to understand how women were affected by the temporary Islamic rule. Her photos, and others from Africa that have been featured on the #lensblog, are showing in an exhibit at @lagosphotofestival, which begins this weekend." By nytimes on Instagram. Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - October 24, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
