Exercise To Renew A Middle-Aged Heart : Shots - Health News : NPR
@media print { body { margin: 2mm 9mm; } .original-url { display: none; } #article .float.left { float: left !important; } #article .float.right { float: right !important; } #article .float { margin-top: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0 !important; } }Exercise To Renew A Middle-Aged Heart : Shots - Health News : NPRhttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/12/591513777/hearts-get-younger-even-at-middle-age-with-exerciseHearts Get ' Younger, ' Even At Middle Age, With ExercisePatti NeighmondMarch 12, 201...
Source: Dr Portnay - July 27, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr Portnay Source Type: blogs
49 Nations Accept Asylees & Refugees at Higher Rates Than America
On numerous occasions, President Trump has described America ’s asylum laws as the most accepting—or, inhis words, “dumbest,” in the world. “When people, with or without children, enter our Country, they must be told to leave… only country in the World that does this!” hetweeted this month. But many other countries are much more accepting of asylum seekers than the United States is. In fact, the United States ranks 50th in the world in net increase in asylees, refugees, and people in similar situations as a share of its population since 2012.The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) publishesd...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 20, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Price-Level Movements, Fixed Nominal Contracts, and Debtor-Creditor Equity
RecentlyDavid Beckworth andMartin Sandbu, among others, have drawn attention toan interesting paper by James Bullard and Riccardo DiCecio unveiled in Norway earlier this year. In it, Bullard and DiCecio investigate a model economy possessing both a large private credit market and “Non-state contingent nominal contracting (NSCNC).” They conclude that, in such an economy, NGDP targeting is the “optimal monetary policy for the masses.”Here is David Beckworth ’s intuitive explanation for that finding:The basic idea is that in a world of fixed-price nominal debt contracts (i.e. the real world), a NGDP level target pro...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
We can tell from a person ’s roar whether they are bigger and stronger than us
By Emma Young
Many animals, including sea lions and dogs, can accurately predict the size and strength of a potential adversary in part by listening to their vocalisations – such as the ferocity and depth of their barks or growls. People weren’t thought to be much good at doing something similar. But in previous studies, volunteers were asked to judge the absolute height and strength of another person, based on the sound of an aggressively-spoken sentence or a ‘roar’. Now in a new study, published in iScience, when participants were instead instructed to listen to recordings and judge how much stronger, or weaker, ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: evolutionary psych Source Type: blogs
Assessing problems with sleep & persistent pain
Problems with sleep affect most of us from time to time. We know we might find it difficult to get off to sleep because of a busy mind, a different bedroom, changes to our schedule – but for most of us, sleep returns to our normal fairly quickly. For some of us, though, sleep problems continue for weeks, months or even years. And for people living with persistent pain, sleep can be one of the most difficult things to deal with, yet it’s also one of the most common (McCracken & Iverson, 2002). Studies of sleep problems in people with fibromyalgia show abnormal sleep continuity as well as changes in sleep arc...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 10, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping Skills Coping strategies Health Pain conditions Therapeutic approaches acceptance Assessment biopsychosocial science treatment Source Type: blogs
Municipal Climate Suits and Lawsuit Diplomacy
In a recent Cato Daily Podcast with Caleb Brown, Cato adjunct scholar Andrew Grossman of Baker& Hostetler discusses the “legally aggressive” new round of climate change litigation, in which municipalities in California and Colorado, as well as New York City, have sued energy producers and distributors seeking to recover damages over the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.As Grossman notes, the idea of suing over the role of carbon emissions in climate change has by this point been tried many times. The most obvious approach would be to sue large industrial emitters of carbon, which is what some state gove...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 31, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Meeting Drug Users Where They ’ re At: US Safe Injection Sites Coming Soon
Amid piles of evidence that the “War On Drugs” approach did little to address Substance Use Disorder (SUD), Americans are beginning to signal that they’re ready to try something different.
This month, that signal for something different came in loud and clear from New York City, where Mayor Bill de Blasio championed a plan to open the nation’s first legal safe injection site for intravenous drug users (Neuman, 2018). While de Blasio’s endorsement made a splash in the new cycle, his city is not the only one to seriously consider the approach. Philadelphia, Seattle, Denver and Ithaca, New York are also making move...
Source: World of Psychology - May 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Erin Gilday Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Recovery Research Substance Abuse Treatment Disease Model Drug Abuse Harm Reduction Heroin Addiction intravenous drug abuse Mayor Bill de Blasio Naloxone nee Source Type: blogs
A mix of treatments may extend life for men with aggressive prostate cancer
For men diagnosed with aggressive cancer that’s confined to the prostate and nearby tissues, the overarching goal of treatment is to keep the disease from spreading (or metastasizing) in the body. Doctors can treat these men with localized therapies, such as surgery and different types of radiation that target the prostate directly. And they can also give systemic treatments that kill off rogue cancer cells in the bloodstream. Hormonal therapy, for instance, is a systemic treatment that kills prostate cancer cells by depriving them of testosterone, which fuels their growth.
Now a new study shows that a mix of different t...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 31, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Cancer Men's Health Prostate Health Source Type: blogs
Investigating the “STEM gender-equality paradox” – in fairer societies, fewer women enter science
The percentage of women with STEM degrees is lower in more gender-equal countries, as measured by the WEF Gender Gap Index. Image from Stoet & Geary, 2018.
By Alex Fradera
The representation of women in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and maths) is increasing, albeit more slowly than many observers would like. But a focus on this issue has begun throwing up head-scratching anomalies, such as Finland, which has one of the larger gender gaps in STEM occupations, despite being one of the more gender equal societies, and boasting a higher science literacy rate in its girls than boys. Now a study in Psycholo...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Educational Gender Occupational Source Type: blogs
Inflation Is Largely a Global Phenomenon
When economic journalists speculate about loominginflation risks in the U.S. or any other country, they implicitly assume that each country ’s inflation depends on that country’s fiscal or monetary policies, and perhaps the unemployment rate. YetTheEconomist for March 3rd–9th shows approximately 1 –2 percent inflation in the consumer prices index (CPI) for virtually all major economies. Inflation rates were surprisingly similar regardless of whether countries had budget deficits larger than ours (Japan and China) or big surpluses (Norway and Hong Kong), regardless of whether central banks experimented with“quant...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 9, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Can a reasoning test predict who will make a good detective?
By Alex Fradera
Although criminal investigation has been transformed through technological developments in DNA, phone tracking, and online data, the way a detective works through a crime has remained much the same. The first suspect is often the true perpetrator, but not always, and snowballing biases continue to lead to miscarriages of justice. Proficient detectives need the ability to generate and evaluate different explanations and keep an open mind. New research in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology investigates whether it’s possible to use established tests of reasoning ability to identify who has the sk...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Forensic Occupational Source Type: blogs
The Trump Doctrine and Public Opinion at One Year
In advance of the January 30 conference here at Cato —The Trump Doctrine at One Year—I review public attitudes toward Trump’s “America First” vision and his foreign policy handling over his first year in office. Join us for a what will undoubtedly be a spirited conversation with a fantastic group of experts.Donald Trump ’s America First rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign marked a sharp departure from the fundamental tenets of liberal internationalism that have guided U.S. foreign policy since World War II. Trump’s tirades against free trade, NATO allies, immigrants (legal and otherwise), and his g...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 22, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Financial And Political News Relevant To E-Health And The Health Sector In General.
January 18, 2018 Edition.Trump continues to astound – revealing is true racist side this week – wanting migrants from Norway rather than Africa – but they won’t come given the current wealth of Norway (GDP $71,000 per person p.a. vs USA at about $50,000)!Bret Stephens of the New York Times got is right:“I believe that Trump is ignorant, inc urious, vain, gauche, bigoted, intemperate, bullying, suggestible, reckless and morally unfit for his office.But he's not deficient in cunning, and that cunning deserves healthy respect from his political opponents.”Europe is still in a post – festive haze – in the UK th...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 18, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
National Security: A Gateway Drug to Protectionism
Writing inThe Hill last week, retired Brigadier General John Adams declared global overcapacity in the aluminum sector to be a national security threat and urged President Trump to “impose meaningful relief” for domestic industry. With Trump widely expected to make a decision in the coming months—or perhaps even sooner—on whether to impose new restrictions on aluminum imports as part of aSection 232 investigation initiated last year, it ’s the type of argument we are likely to see more of in the weeks ahead. While no one should doubt the sincerity of Adams’ concern for U.S. national security, his description of...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Shithole country
The Asshole-in-Chief wants immigrants to come to the U.S. from Norway. Funny thing, though -- nobody in Norway wants to move to the U.S.Norway is ranked first in the world in the UN Human Development Index. (The U.S. is ranked 10th.) The standard of living in Norway is among the highest in the world, and the society is highly egalitarian. Health care is free for everybody, people are guaranteed 46 weeks of paid parental leave, and Norwayis the happiest country on earth.Oh yeah. They ' re socialist. The state owns 30% of the value of the stock exchange, including big stakes in oil, hydroelectric, aluminum, petroleum, teleco...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 12, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
