There Is No National Security Justification for the New Immigration Ban
Alex NowrastehThe Trump administration justreleased an immigration ban on the six countries of Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan, Eritrea, Myanmar, Tanzania, and Sudan. Citizens of Nigeria, Myanmar, Eritrea, and Kyrgyzstan won ’t be allowed to apply for green cards. Citizens of Tanzania and Sudan won’t be able to apply for the green card lottery.There is no national security justification for banning immigrants from those countries. From 1975 through 2017, 11 foreign ‐born terrorists from those countries attempted or committed attacks on U.S. soil. They murdered 6 people in their attacks. The annual chance of being mu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 31, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Illegal Immigrants in Europe
Alex NowrastehPew Research Center recently released a wonderful newreport that estimates the illegal immigrant resident population in European Union and European Free Trade Association (EU-EFTA) countries. This is the first systematic report to estimate Europe ’s illegal immigrant population along the lines that Pew and others use to estimate the U.S. illegal immigrant population. Illegal immigrants are a much larger population in the United States than in Europe.Pew estimates that there are 3.9 million to 4.8 million illegal immigrants in EU-EFTA as of 2017. Those illegal immigrants come from countries outside of the EU...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 15, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Wild poliovirus type 3 declared eradicated
Today, on World Polio Day, wild poliovirus type 3 has been declared eradicated by a commission of the World Health Organization. The last case of type 3 poliomyelitis was recorded in 2012 in Nigeria. As wild poliovirus type 2 was declared eraidcated in 2015, now only wild poliovirus type 1 continues to circulate, causing paralysis […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 24, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information IPV OPV polio eradication poliovirus type 2 poliovirus type 3 poliovirus vaccine viral viruses Source Type: blogs
Causes of Wealth Inequality
Chris EdwardsElizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to blast wealth inequality. But the twin leftists seem oblivious that wealth inequality may reflect starkly differing causes, as I discuss in anew Fox Business op-ed.The Warren-Sanders broad-brush denunciations are useless as a guide to policy because high wealth inequality may reflect either the growth benefits of capitalism or the negative effects of cronyism and crowding out.Capitalism here meanseconomic freedom, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Cronyism means corruption and narrow benefits to particular groups. Crowding out means the displacement of private sav...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Screens For The Poor, Human Connection For The Rich – Even In Healthcare?
Not so long ago, worries about the digital divide
represented the anxiety that the rich will have access to more information and
more possibilities in every area of life compared to those who cannot afford
connected digital devices. Currently, trends show that human connection might
become a luxury good for the rich, while poor families might not be able to
afford living screen-free in the future. We asked how would that translate into
healthcare and what could we do to ensure the treasure of human contact to
everyone in the coming decades.
Is digital detox becoming a luxury good?
Although the techno-dystopian sci-fi...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 6, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine addiction development divide gap Healthcare human human connection human contact inequality low-income poor rich screen smart smartphone society technology Source Type: blogs
3 Steps to Break Your Painful Relationship Patterns
“Until you heal your past, your life patterns and relationships will continue to be the same; it’s just the faces that change.” – Unknown
First of all: honey, you are not broken. We are all works in process. There is nothing inherently wrong with you. We all end up in a loop here and there. Sometimes it’s because we haven’t healed pain from the past. And sometimes it’s because we’ve healed our pain but still hold on to past habits. When we do this, past habits will promote the replaying of past events and, therefore, the pain will return.
This happens at a psychological and practical level. The ...
Source: World of Psychology - June 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Publishers Relationships Tiny Buddha Ashe Emotional Baggage Memory past experiences Relationship Patterns thinking habits Source Type: blogs
Market-Based Visas: Problems, Criticisms, and Solutions
Steven Kopits of Princeton Energy Advisors wrote a fewcriticisms of our proposal to sell Gold Cards through a market-based program that I ’ve called animmigration tariff. An immigration tariff is an attempt, based largely on Nobel Prize-winningeconomist Gary Becker ’s idea to sell visas, to create a market-based visa that accounts for many of the most trenchant criticisms of liberalized immigration The idea is simply to create a new visa called a Gold Card without numerical quotas or caps. The Gold Card would supply permanent legal residency and work permission, but cannot be used to naturalize –like agreen car...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Can Digital Health Go Off-Grid And Still Save Lives?
What would you do without your smartphone or laptop for a week? Some cannot even imagine putting them down for a second, not thinking much of the vulnerability of our entire digital existence. What if a hurricane destroys the electric grid? What if power supplies will get cut off by unstoppable rain? What about a future dystopic scenario with our traditional energy sources depleted due to overconsumption? And what if we just look at less fortunate parts of the world where stable electricity service is a rare treasure? We collected some examples of how medicine could become more independent from the traditional electricity ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Africa asia Caribbean development digital digital health Healthcare smartphone solar sustainability technology Source Type: blogs
TWiV 548: Mice, shrews, and caterpillars
Vincent travels to the European Congress of Virology in Rotterdam and with local co-host Marion Koopmans speak with Martin Beer, Stephan Gunther, and Vera Ross about their careers and their work on Lassa virus, Borna virus, and insect viruses. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 548 (43 MB .mp3, 72 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 19, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology baculovirus Borna virus encaphalitis European Congress of Virology Lassa virus metagenomics nigeria outbreak response transplant recipient viral virus behavior modification viruses zombie caterpillar Source Type: blogs
Reverse Innovation: When Disruptive Health Solutions Go West
Zipline drones populate the Rwandan skyline, portable
electrocardiogram machines help doctors diagnose in clinics in rural India, easy
testing lets cure children in Botswana. Beyond being brilliant medical
innovations, at some point, all these technologies were brought to or should be
applied to high-income countries after their success in their original settings
in Africa or Asia – as they have been available for
a fraction of the cost, they have represented a highly creative solution
and/or the regulatory environment has allowed them to thrive. That’s what
researchers call reverse innovation, and
we tracked down the ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 19, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Portable Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones Africa asia development digital health disruption disruptive drones empowerment Healthcare Innovation medical drones reverse innovation technology West Source Type: blogs
Radiology in Africa
By SAURABH JHA MD
What are the challenges of getting imaging to Africa? In this episode of Radiology Firing Line, I convene a panel of experts in Africa. We discuss the challenges of bringing new technology to Africa, the new need for imaging driven by public health gains and increased longevity of Africans, the insalubrious practice of “equipment dumping”, amongst others.
Panelists:
Kassa Darge, MD PhD, is Professor of Radiology and Radiologist-in-Chief at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is also Honorary Professor of Radiology in the Department of Radiology at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Radiology Firing Line Podcasts RogueRad Africa equipment dumping Global Health JACR Saurabh Jha Source Type: blogs
Locomotor brachii or locomotor brachialis
Locomotor brachii or locomotor brachialis is often described as a peripheral sign in severe aortic regurgitation or other causes of aortic runoff. It is the prominent pulsation of a usually tortuous brachial artery seen in severe aortic regurgitation. Sometimes it is called a dancing brachial artery as well.
Though taken as a peripheral sign of aortic regurgitation, it is not uncommon to see a prominently pulsating tortuous brachial artery in the elderly with arteriosclerosis. In this case it is a stiffened blood vessel wall which makes the pulsation visible and more prominent. Added to this there will be isolated systoli...
Source: Cardiophile MD - December 13, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology locomotor brachialis Locomotor brachii Osler's sign Source Type: blogs
Manifestations of Fear in Cross-Cultural Interpretations of Sleep Paralysis
Frontispiece from:Blicke in die Traum- und Geisterwelt (A look into the dream and spirit world), byFriedrich Voigt (1854).What are you most afraid of? Not finding a permanent job? Getting a divorce and losing your family? Losing your funding? Not making this month ' s rent? Not having a roof over your head? Natural disasters? Nuclear war? Cancer? Having a loved one die of cancer?FAILURE?There are many types ofspecific phobias (snakes, spiders, heights, enclosed spaces,clowns,mirrors, etc.), but that ' s not what I ' m talking about here.What are youreally afraid of? Death? Pain? A painful death?Devils, demons, ghosts, witc...
Source: The Neurocritic - November 21, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
DAI Course – Public Feedback From Alumni
This is a continuation of yesterday’s post on the impact and results of the recently created Deep Abundance Integration course, which was designed to help people shift from scarcity to abundance in many areas of life.
In the previous post, I shared some feedback in summary form as well as charts and graphs of people’s ratings. In this post I’ll share the direct words from course alumni who offered to share some public feedback about the experience.
My exact wording of the invite was:
If you’re willing to share any thoughts, results, or feedback that we can post publicly (especially to help others de...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - October 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Creating Reality Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 513
This week features our monthly case from Idzi Potters and theInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. A Nigerian male patient, returns to Belgium, after having visited his relatives. He presents at the hospital, where a worm was extracted from his eye (length: 5 cm).In a drop of blood, live “larvae” were seen.A KNOTT concentration was made and stained with Carazzi ’s to visualize the details.The “larvae” are measuring (on average) 280 µm in length.Diagnosis please? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - October 1, 2018 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
