Vice Chair Quarles ’ Stigma Problem
George SelginSpeaking to NYU ' s " Money Marketeers " last week, Randy Quarles, the Fed ' s Vice Chair for Supervision, shared his views on Fed policy, and particularly on steps he thinks the Fed should take to reduce the size of its balance sheet.Perhaps better than anyone else at the Fed, Mr. Quarles understands the role that liquidity requirements play in propping-up banks ' demand for excess reserves, and how those requirements foiled the Fed ' s attempt to get the quantity of such reserves substantially below its crisis-era peak.Rather than accept that defeat, Mr. Quarles wants the Fed to try again, after first taking...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Even Preschoolers Associate Positions Of Power With Being A Man
By Emily Reynolds
An imbalance in power — personal and political — is at the heart of many of the conversations we have around gender. #MeToo sparked a global conversation on the topic, and issues around the gender pay gap and women in leadership roles also deal with matters of unequal power.
But our assumptions about how gender and power interact may start far before we even reach the workplace, new research suggests. In a paper published in Sex Roles, Rawan Charafeddine from the CNRS in Paris and colleagues conclude that associations between power and masculinity start when we’re barely out of nappies, with childr...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Gender Social Source Type: blogs
U.S. health care from a global perspective, 2019: higher spending, worse outcomes?
The Commonwealth Fund - This briefing assesses U.S. health care system spending, outcomes, risk factors and prevention, utilisation, and quality, relative to ten other high-income countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. It also compares U.S. performance to that of the OECD average, comprising 36 high-income member countries.BriefingMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 29, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Waterloo sunset ’ s fine, as is Norwegian Wood
I’ve got another gig performing for local seniors. It’ll be an afternoon singalong in a residential carehome, it’ll be fun. I’ve recruited some people I know who will bring guitars and pianos to play and all of whom can sing really well. The last time I did such a gig was a harsh moment of learning.
We were actually a late booking as the proper old-time music band had cancelled a the last minute. We didn’t have any time to pull a setlist together letalone rehearse. I thought…okay…the majority of the audience is in its 70s, same as my parents were and my parents love Buddy Holly, Ro...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 28, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at 2019
I ' ve always been an optimist. I believe humans are basically good and that the nice guy will win eventually.After traveling 400,000 miles to 40 countries in 2019, helping government, academia, and industry, my view of the world has not changed.Despite our focus on the negative 24x7 news cycle, 2019 has been thebest year for humanity in history.My best memories, looking back at 2019:*Serving the Gates Foundation in South Africa and Northern India. Experiencing the rollout of technology enabled platforms that reduced HIV disease burden and improved diagnosis/treatment of tuberculosis.*Working with mayors a...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - December 31, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
The Top Digital Health Technologies Helping Refugees Around the World
“Refugees are persons who are outside their country of origin for reasons of feared persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or other circumstances which have seriously disturbed public order and, as a result, require international protection,” writes the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). However, refugees’ plea isn’t limited to people leaving their home country en masse following atrocious wars or political instability, but can be that of anyone else, like you and me, following unforeseen calamities, be it natural or man-made, leading to similar situations.
The November 2018 Camp wildfi...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 17, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Telemedicine & Smartphones digital health technology digital technology digital innovation refugee Source Type: blogs
Thanking a lot of people - all the Acknowledgement sections from all my papers
This article was written using the Authorea scientific writing platform.The authors would like to thank the Coronado Pop Warner Islanders for initial collection of the sample and participation in Project MERCCURI, as well as Kris Tracy who assisted in the etymology of the proposed species name.The 16S rRNA sequence analysis was performed under the MiSeq Com- petition MkIIm by New Zealand Genome Limited and with the assistance of Patrick Biggs (NZGL) for MiSeq sequence processing. We thank Alex- ander Forrest for the loan of the Brancker CTD. We are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. W...
Source: The Tree of Life - November 28, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Butterfly Network Expands Applications for Smartphone-Connected Ultrasound: Interview
Butterfly Network, the digital health unicorn democratizing medical imaging, is continuing to add new applications for its handheld, single probe, smartphone-connected ultrasound technology. The Butterfly iQ, the multi-purpose pocket-sized ultrasound, won FDA clearance a couple years ago and earlier this year received the CE Mark, clearing it for distribution in Europe.
The innovation found within Butterfly iQ centers around the device’s matrix array of microelectromechanical (MEMS) sensors. As part of an integrated circuit, Butterfly iQ provides high-resolution performance comparable to that of a full-size u...
Source: Medgadget - November 14, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Exclusive News Ob/Gyn Pediatrics Radiology Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Wealth Tax Revenues
Chris EdwardsPresidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have each proposed an annual wealth tax on the richest Americans. There are so many flaws with such a tax that it probably would not pass Congress. If it did pass, it would likely be repealed soon after as the damage became obvious even to the politicians.The number of European countries with annual wealth taxes has fallen from 12 in 1990 to just 3 today. The Europeans found that wealth taxes induced avoidance, evasion, and capital flight,as I discuss here. The taxes were also full of exemptions and raised relatively little revenue.Let ’s look at th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
$2 Trillion+ in New Taxes for Single Payer, or $50 Billion to Strengthen ObamaCare? Next Question, Please
By BOB HERTZ
It is not wise for Democrats to spend all their energy
debating Single Payer health care solutions.
None of their single player
plans has much chance to pass in 2020, especially under the limited
reconciliation process. In the words of Ezra Klein, “If Democrats don’t have a
plan for the filibuster, they don’t really have a plan for ambitious health
care reform.”
Yet while we debate Single Payer – or, even if it somehow
passed, wait for it to be installed — millions of persons are still hurting
under our current system.
We can help these people now!
Here are six practical ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare Obamacare Politics Affordable Care Act American healthcare Bob Hertz Medicare For All Single payer US Health Care System Source Type: blogs
Simple “Hypocrisy Intervention” Reduces Collective Blaming Of Muslims For Extremism, With Long-Lasting Effects
A rally in Melbourne against racism and Islamophobia following the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings. Credit: Scott Barbour/Getty Images
By Emily Reynolds
Log on to Twitter, open a newspaper or turn on the news and you’ll soon see just how prevalent anti-Muslim sentiment is, as well as how likely collective blame is to be placed on the group as a whole for actions perpetrated by a few Islamic extremists. Though American mass shootings are far more likely to be perpetrated by white men than Muslims, collective blame is rarely assigned to that group — instead, they are characterised as “lone wolves”, even when they...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cognition Terrorism Source Type: blogs
Welfare State Causes Wealth Inequality —Euro Experience
Chris EdwardsDemocrats running for president are condemning wealth inequality while calling for an increase in social spending. But expanding social spending would magnify wealth inequality, not reduce it, because it would displace private wealth accumulation by lower- and middle-income households.Evidence comes froma study by Pirmin Fessler and Martin Schurz for the European Central Bank. The authors explore the relationship between government social spending and wealth distribution in 13 European countries using a survey database of 62,000 households. The database contains household balance sheet information.Regression a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Our Brains Represent The Meaning Of Words the Same Way Whether We Read Them Or Hear Them
By Emma Young
In an era of TED talks, podcasts, and audiobooks, it’s easy to choose to listen to factual information or fiction, rather than to read it. But is that a good thing? Are there any differences in the way the brain processes the meaning of words that are heard rather than read? According to the researchers behind a thorough new study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the answer to this last question is “no”. But it may still be too soon to conclude that listening to an audiobook is effectively the same as reading it.
Fatma Deniz at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues r...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Reading Source Type: blogs
Healthcare after Brexit: updated guidance
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) - The guidance accessing health care after Brexit has been updated. It covers access to health care for UK residents visiting or living in the EU and Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland after Brexit.Visitor guidanceEmigrant guidance (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 27, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Brexit Source Type: blogs
