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A congressional watchdog said Thursday the Trump administration needs to step up its management of sign-up seasons under former President Barack Obama's health care law after mixed results last year in the throes of a failed GOP effort to repeal it. On one hand, the Government Accountability Office found problems with consumer counseling and advertising and recommended such basic fixes as setting enrollment targets. On the other, it credited administration actions that did help people enroll, such as a more reliable HealthCare.gov website and reduced call center wait times. (Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press)
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - August 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Trump unveils plan to weaken greenhouse-gas limits on power plants
Trump unveils plan to weaken greenhouse-gas limits on power plants, Published online: 21 August 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-06018-8Proposed rules for US Environmental Protection Agency would replace Obama-era regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - August 21, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Jeff Tollefson Source Type: research
Court orders EPA to ban chlorpyrifos
9th Circuit Court of Appeals directs agency to finalize Obama-era proposal (Source: Chemical and Engineering News)
Source: Chemical and Engineering News - August 19, 2018 Category: Chemistry Authors: Britt E. Erickson Source Type: research
Expanding the use of bilateral internal thoracic artery: Yes! We can
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. —Barack Obama, Speech in Chicago, February 5, 2008 (Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery)
Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - August 14, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Nishant Saran, Chaim Locker, David L. Joyce Tags: Adult: Coronary: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research
Court orders EPA to ban chlorpyrifos
9th Circuit Court of Appeals directs agency to finalize Obama-era proposal (Source: Chemical and Engineering News)
Source: Chemical and Engineering News - August 10, 2018 Category: Chemistry Authors: Britt E. Erickson Source Type: research
Court orders EPA to ban chlorpyrifos
9th Circuit Court of Appeals directs agency to finalize Obama-era proposal (Source: NanoFocus)
Source: NanoFocus - August 10, 2018 Category: Nanotechnology Authors: Britt E. Erickson Source Type: research
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The heated debate over how Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would vote on the Affordable Care Act might not matter. As long as five past defenders of the health care law remain on the nation's highest court, the odds tilt in favor of it being allowed to stand. Some Democrats are warning that President Donald Trump's designee could spell doom for the statute, even as some conservatives are portraying Kavanaugh as sympathetic to former President Barack Obama's landmark legislation. But where Kavanaugh would vote if he joins the Supreme Court is less clear than both sides suggest, according to an Associated Press review ...
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - July 23, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Godless by association: Deficits in trust mediate antiatheist stigma-by-association.
In the United States, atheists elicit high levels of sociopolitical rejection that is primarily motivated by a lack of trust. Across three studies, we use evaluative conditioning (EC) as a theoretical framework to evaluate whether these deficits extended to candidates who are not atheists themselves but merely perceived to be associated with atheism. Study 1 found that implicit trust, explicit trust, and voting intentions toward target candidates were all negatively impacted by an EC procedure that paired a candidate’s face with words related to atheism. Study 2 found that trust and political support for a Christian cand...
Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied - July 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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The liberal base is fired up about abortion rights, but Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) will seek to emphasize access to affordable health care as much as Roe v. Wade in the battle over the Supreme Court. In sharp contrast to the Obama era, Schumer thinks health care is the Democrats' best weapon. By putting the charged issue of women's reproductive rights within the broader framework of access to health care, the matter is likely to be less polarizing in red states. (Alexander Bolton, The Hill)
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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - July 16, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Feasibility of Contextual Behavioral Speech Analyses of US Presidents: Inaugural Addresses of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, 1993-2017
Publication date: Available online 9 July 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Jordan Belisle, Dana Paliliunas, Mark R. Dixon, Jonathan TarboxAbstractWe evaluated the feasibility of analyzing data from speeches of United States presidents from a contextual behavioral perspective. Relational frames present in inaugural addresses given by Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump from 1993 to 2017 were compared. The greatest between subject variance was observed in their use of coordinative and distinctive relations, with Donald Trump using the largest number of frames of distinct...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Diagnosis and treatment in the era of precision medicine – Precision medicine and tailor-made medicine
Publication date: July 2017Source: Personalized Medicine Universe, Volume 6Author(s): Masayoshi Nagata, Shigeo HorieAbstractRecently, precision medicine has gained attention in several fields of medical society. Today's medical consensus revolves around Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) built on the results of many randomized controlled trials. Ever since the advent of EBM, guidelines based on EBM have provided a basis for clinical decision-making. Treatments based on these guidelines largely improved the prognosis of a certain ailment. However, these guidelines can only provide the best fit based on the statistics. Treatments...
Source: Personalized Medicine Universe - July 10, 2018 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Feasibility of Contextual Behavioral Speech Analyses of US Presidents: Inaugural Addresses of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, 1993-2017
Publication date: Available online 9 July 2018Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral ScienceAuthor(s): Jordan Belisle, Dana Paliliunas, Mark R. Dixon, Jonathan TarboxAbstractWe evaluated the feasibility of analyzing data from speeches of United States presidents from a contextual behavioral perspective. Relational frames present in inaugural addresses given by Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump from 1993 to 2017 were compared. The greatest between subject variance was observed in their use of coordinative and distinctive relations, with Donald Trump using the largest number of frames of distinct...
Source: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Diagnosis and treatment in the era of precision medicine – Precision medicine and tailor-made medicine
Publication date: July 2017Source: Personalized Medicine Universe, Volume 6Author(s): Masayoshi Nagata, Shigeo HorieAbstractRecently, precision medicine has gained attention in several fields of medical society. Today's medical consensus revolves around Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) built on the results of many randomized controlled trials. Ever since the advent of EBM, guidelines based on EBM have provided a basis for clinical decision-making. Treatments based on these guidelines largely improved the prognosis of a certain ailment. However, these guidelines can only provide the best fit based on the statistics. Treatments...
Source: Personalized Medicine Universe - July 6, 2018 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
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Republicans on Capitol Hill are giving up on what might be their last best chance to overhaul Medicare, just as they’re losing their leading champion on the issue, House Speaker Paul Ryan. The quiet surrender on a subject that’s energized GOP fiscal hawks for the better part of a decade comes as new projections show Medicare’s trust fund in its worst shape since the recession, partly because of Republicans’ other chief obsession: their sweeping tax cuts. The sudden silence on entitlements is an awkward one for congressional Republicans, who spent much of the Obama administration calling for major reforms and new li...
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - June 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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Republicans on Capitol Hill are giving up on what might be their last best chance to overhaul Medicare, just as they’re losing their leading champion on the issue, House Speaker Paul Ryan. The quiet surrender on a subject that’s energized GOP fiscal hawks for the better part of a decade comes as new projections show Medicare’s trust fund in its worst shape since the recession, partly because of Republicans’ other chief obsession: their sweeping tax cuts The sudden silence on entitlements is an awkward one for congressional Republicans, who spent much of the Obama administration calling for major reforms and new lim...
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - June 18, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
