The “Antebellum Paradox”: What is it and why it matters.
BY MIKE MAGEE
I recently made the case that “Health is foundational to a functioning democracy. But health must be shared and be broadly accessible to be an effective enabler of good government.” I also suggested that the pursuit of good health is implied and imbedded in the aspirational and idealistic wording of our U.S. Constitution, and that the active pursuit of health as a nation is essential if we wish to rise to Hamilton’s challenge in Federalist #1 and prove that we are “capable of establishing good government from reflection and choice.” So why are native white males lagging behind in health?
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Source: The Health Care Blog - January 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy antebellum paradox health informatics Mike Magee Population Health Source Type: blogs
Echoing Trump, Biden Embraces International Trade Lawlessness
James BacchusThe prolonged charade of the United States is over in its disingenuous opposition to the reconstitution of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. It is clear now that the Biden administration —like theTrump administration before it —has no desire to restore the highest court of appeal in world trade as an independent and impartial tribunal. One now glaring reason is the absence of an Appellate Body will enable the United States to escape the imposition of what would likely have been billions of dollars in annual trade sancti ons because of its continued imposition of illegal tariffs on imports...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 12, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: James Bacchus Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Top Lightning Process Proponent Privately Lobbied for Approval of Norway ’ s LP Study
By David Tuller, DrPH *Two corrections had been made in the text below. The NEM committee has 12 members, not nine, as I originally wrote. And when Dr Flottorp wrote her letter, it was not while the NEM committee was considering the proposed Lightning Process trial, as I originally wrote, but before it had progressed … Trial By Error: Top Lightning Process Proponent Privately Lobbied for Approval of Norway’s LP Study Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - December 8, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller ME/CFS flottorp Lightning Process norway Steinkopf Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Top Lightning Process Proponent Privately Lobbied for Approval of Norway ’ s LP Study
By David Tuller, DrPH Dr Signe Flottorp is a promoter of the Lightning Process for ME/CFS as well as the research director at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. That’s a scary combination! Dr Flottorp, a general practitioner, is also a fervent member of the Scandinavian arm of the CBT/GET ideological brigades. She and two […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - December 8, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized flottorp Lightning Process norway Steinkopf Source Type: blogs
American Health Care Consumers Should Have Access to Drugs and Devices Benefitting People in Other Developed Countries
Jeffrey A. SingerSwiss Medtech, a trade association representing the medical technology industry, issued a press release on November 28 praising the Swiss Parliament for enacting legislation allowing Swiss health care providers and patients to access medical devices approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Until now, the Swiss government only permitted patients and doctors to access devices that have a CE Marking, which indicates the device meets European Union standards, and the E.U. approves it for marketing among member states. The Swiss Parliament ’s action should expand access and increase p...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 29, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Norwegian CBT/GET Ideologues Take Aim at Critics Who Reject Their Views
By David Tuller, DrPH Three Norwegian researchers recently published an attack on critics of cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy as treatments for ME. The article, called “Facts and Myths about ME,” was published by the news organization Aftenposten. The authors, from the Scandinavian arm of the CBT/GET ideological brigades, asserted that “the cause […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - November 1, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized norway Steinkopf wyller Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Norwegian CBT/GET Ideologues Take Aim at Critics Who Reject Their Views
By David Tuller, DrPH [*See correction in third paragraph] Three Norwegian researchers recently published an attack on critics of cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy as treatments for ME. The article, called “Facts and Myths about ME,” was published by the news organization Aftenposten. The authors, from the Scandinavian arm of the CBT/GET ideological … Trial By Error: Norwegian CBT/GET Ideologues Take Aim at Critics Who Reject Their Views Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - November 1, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller ME/CFS norway Steinkopf wyller Source Type: blogs
Chile and Latin America ’s Disposable Constitutions
Ian V ásquezChile votes this Sunday on a proposed, new constitution. It is a far-left document that would undermine fundamental rights and impoverish the country. Chileans should reject it. My colleagues and I have discussed the Chilean success story under the current constitution, the political conditions that gave rise to a constitutional convention that began meeting last year, and the problems with the proposed basic charterhere,here,here,here, andhere.In light of Chile ’s referendum, I reprint below a rough translation of anarticle I published in Peru in 2019 about Latin America ’s sorry tradition of frequently r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 3, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Mom Speaks Out About NHS “ Abuse ” of Daughter; Norway Approves Lightning Process Study
By David Tuller, DrPH On Monday, The Times (UK) published a story about a 17-year-old girl with ME who has experienced hospital treatment that her family has referred to as “neglect and abuse.” The details are harrowing—but should not be unfamiliar to people aware of similar experiences reported by other teenagers with severe ME. Parents […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 21, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Remodelling Criminal Insanity: Exploring Philosophical, Legal, and Medical Premises of the Medical Model Used In Norwegian Law
Linda Gr öning (University of Bergen), Unn K. Haukvik (University of Oslo), Stephen Morse (University of Pennsylvania), Susanna Radovic (University of Gothenburg), Remodelling Criminal Insanity: Exploring Philosophical, Legal, and Medical Premises of the Medical Model Used In Norwegian Law, Int’l J.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 3, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Say it again:
This study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that, in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic, " a single-payer universal healthcare system would have saved 212,000 lives in 2020 alone. We also calculated that US$105.6 billion of medical expenses associated with COVID-19 hospitalization could have been averted by a Medicare for All system. " This is not exactly news. Health services researchers have been making these sorts of calculations for decades, for as long as I ' ve even been on the periphery of the business, and it always comes out the same. With a universal single payer system we can:I...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Deja Vu All Over Again with Proposed Lightning Process Study in Norway
By David Tuller, DrPH It’s déjà vu all over again in Norway with the Lightning Process (LP). Earlier this month, a national research ethics authority, NEM, postponed a decision on a proposed LP trial until at least June. The trial has already been approved by a regional committee. The NEM had been expected to decide […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 31, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Lightning Process Live Landmark norway phil parker Source Type: blogs
A woman in her 60s with palpitations
Conclusion:The final tracing in Today ' s Case was obtained the day after the run of ATach that was caught on Telemetry. I found it interesting to compare this last ECG #4 — with the post-cardioversion ECG #2 — and then with QRS morphology in selected leads during full preexcitation that was seen in ECG #1 (these 3 tracings put together in Figure-4):Sinus rhythm is again present in ECG #4 (RED arrows in lead II). However, the PR interval is short — and delta waves are seen.Compared to ECG #2 — there is more preexcitation in...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 24, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research - 11th April 2022
COVIDAssociation of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy with adverse peripartum outcomes, study carried out in Canada looking at primarily mRNA vaccines given in second and third trimester, comparing with vaccination given after pregnancy or no vaccination given, found no significant association.Retrospective cohort study of association of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination during pregnancy with pregnancy outcomes, " In this population-based retrospective cohort study that included 157 521 deliveries in Sweden and Norway, SARS-CoV-2 vaccination during pregnancy, compared with no SARS-CoV-2 vaccination during pregnancy, was no...
Source: Browsing - April 11, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: My Letter Responding to Norway Health Leader ’ s Efforts to Denigrate My “ Activist ” Work
By David Tuller, DrPH In my previous post about a whine de coeur from northern European members of the GET/CBT idealogical brigades, I mentioned that the lead author, Signe Flottorp, had cited my work in a 2020 letter. In that blunt message, she characterized me as a “well-known ME-activist.” The letter is part of an […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 18, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized flottorp Lightning Process norway Source Type: blogs
