Searching for Statesmanship in Lebanon
BEIRUT—Lebanon is the Middle East’s only melting pot. Never has the region more needed a peaceful oasis.
However, the country is a sectarian volcano. If the country crashes, so will the only Middle Eastern model for tolerant coexistence. Lebanon desperately needs statesmen willing to look beyond their personal and group interests.
Full-scale civil war erupted in 1975. That conflict ended in 1990. Since then, the country has suffered through conflict with Israel, spasms of sectarian violence, and now Syria’s implosion.
Despite all this, Lebanon remains generally free and uniquely diverse. But politics systematically u...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Eagle Claw and Honey Badger
“As health concerns for former President Carter mount,” Caleb Brown noted recently in this space, “it’s nice to be able to look back on his time in the White House and see something remarkably positive.” Indeed, our 39th president doesn’t remotely merit the bad rap he gets from conservatives and libertarians. As I wrote a few years back, “at its best, the Carter legacy was one of workaday reforms that made significant improvements in American life: cheaper travel and cheaper goods for the middle class.” For loosening controls on oil, trucking, railroads, and airlines, he should, Daniel Bier suggests,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 10, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Gene Healy Source Type: blogs
Don't Envy Senator Wyden
Daniel R. Pearson
Being a U.S. senator can be fun. The position brings with it a certain amount of influence, fame, and stature. However, serving in the Senate also is fraught with challenges. Much time must be spent away from family. Flying back and forth between home and Washington can wear a person out. And some voters always are unhappy with you, sometimes really unhappy.
This is a complicated moment for Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). He has paid his dues in the Senate since 1997 and now is one of its more senior members. That seniority has brought him to the position of ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, whi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 20, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel R. Pearson Source Type: blogs
Don't Envy Senator Wyden
Daniel R. Pearson
Being a U.S. senator can be fun. The position brings with it a certain amount of influence, fame, and stature. However, serving in the Senate also is fraught with challenges. Much time must be spent away from family. Flying back and forth between home and Washington can wear a person out. And some voters always are unhappy with you, sometimes really unhappy.
This is a complicated moment for Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). He has paid his dues in the Senate since 1997 and now is one of its more senior members. That seniority has brought him to the position of ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, whi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 20, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel R. Pearson Source Type: blogs
Imminently Croakable
Coming out of a patient's room, my eyes immediately fell on a hallway bed on which a sobbing linebacker-sized 26-year old man rocked back and forth in a fetal position. He looked sort of like “a kidney stone,” but the tech handed me an EKG chirping "chest pain." The EMR indicated he had a past medical history of asthma, hypertension, and congestive heart failure, but he didn't take any medications. He smoked but denied drug use.
The EKG was not normal. There was no worrisome ST segment elevation, but left ventricular hypertrophy with diffuse T wave repolarization abnormalities suggested longstanding poor...
Source: Lions and Tigers and Bears - November 12, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Imminently Croakable
Coming out of a patient's room, my eyes immediately fell on a hallway bed on which a sobbing linebacker-sized 26-year old man rocked back and forth in a fetal position. He looked sort of like “a kidney stone,” but the tech handed me an EKG chirping "chest pain." The EMR indicated he had a past medical history of asthma, hypertension, and congestive heart failure, but he didn't take any medications. He smoked but denied drug use.
The EKG was not normal. There was no worrisome ST segment elevation, but left ventricular hypertrophy with diffuse T wave repolarization abnormalities suggested longstanding poorly...
Source: Lions and Tigers and Bears - November 12, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
The 2013 Geoffrey Beene Global Neurodiscovery Challenge
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, in association with the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative, announce preliminary winner, finalist for the awards, and open voting to the public.
+Alzheimer's Reading Room
Online Voting begins on November 1
and ends of November 5
From November 1 – 5, 2013 the public will have the opportunity to vote for the grand prize winning entry. Click the image above for details.
The grand prize winner will receive an additional $50,000 award to continue research specifically in the area of male/female differences in Alzheimer’s disease.
Subscrib...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 29, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Reading an Iraqi Newspaper (14th October 2013)
Reading an issue of an Iraqi newspaper is good reflection on what is happening in Iraq these days. I do not care much about the political news but on the columns written by Iraqi individuals about their lives. Here is a reading in today’s issue of Azzaman Arabic Daily Newspaper.Hadi Abbas Hussein from Baghdad wrote a short story entitled “Tiring Delusions” about an Iraqi father who lives in a rented apartment with his two married sons. The father always had dreams about leaving Iraq. Recently he decided to go to Georgia. He told two of his friends about the idea and they asked him to do them a favor in going to Georg...
Source: psychiatry for all - October 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
An Open Access Trash Heap
Science magazine and writer John Bohannon have done us all a favor. There's a long article out in the latest issue that details how he wrote up a terrible, ridiculous scientific manuscript, attached a made-up name to it under the aegis of a nonexistent institution, and sent this farrago off to over three hundred open-access journals. The result?
On 4 July, good news arrived in the inbox of Ocorrafoo Cobange, a biologist at the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara. It was the official letter of acceptance for a paper he had submitted 2 months earlier to the Journal of Natural Pharmaceuticals, describing the anticancer pr...
Source: In the Pipeline - October 4, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: The Scientific Literature Source Type: blogs
ACCME September Update: Board of Directors Received Overwhelming Support for Simplifying the Accreditation System
The ACCME has released the executive summary of its Board of Directors meeting, held July 11– 12, 2013 at its Chicago offices. We have covered previous ACCME Board of Directors' meetings in
previous posts.
Accreditation and Recognition Decision Making
The ACCME ratified 60 accreditation and reaccreditation decisions. This included 17 CME providers that received Accreditation with Commendation (28%), which confers a 6-year term of accreditation. The list of accredited providers on our Web site has been updated to reflect the July 2013 accreditation decisions.
The Board reviewed accreditation decisio...
Source: Policy and Medicine - September 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Immigration Does Not Decrease Economic Freedom
Alex Nowrasteh
A common criticism of immigration reform (here, here, and here) is that it will decrease economic freedom in the United States, by increasing the voting pool for the Democratic Party. Leaving aside the issue of which party supports economic liberty, if any, it’s important to see what the actual impacts of immigration are on economic freedom in the United States and the world. The political effects of immigrants after they arrive are less certain than the economic benefits. Do immigrants decrease economic freedom in their new countries? The bottom line: fears of immigrants decreasin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 8, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
3 Creative Ways to Bring Comfort & Connect to Your Spirituality
According to interfaith minister and author Rev. Maggie Oman Shannon, when we immerse ourselves in creative acts, we can quiet the noises around us from our “wild and wired world,” and truly calm ourselves. With these creative acts, we also can cultivate a spiritual practice.
In her book Crafting Calm: Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation, Oman Shannon quotes the 20th-century Catholic priest Henri Nouwen, who said, “Through the spiritual life we gradually move from the house of fear to the house of love.”
Oman Shannon believes the same can be said about the creative life. Through creating, sh...
Source: World of Psychology - May 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Books Creativity General Mental Health and Wellness Mindfulness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Spirituality Calm Projects Catholic Priest Contemplation Creative Activities Creative Acts Creative Life Henri Nouwen House Source Type: blogs
ACCME Launches International Academy for CPD Accreditation and other ACCME News
This month, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) has been busy with a number of activities and announcements. Below is a summary of some of the events, activities, and other information regarding the CME industry and stakeholders contained in their March 2013 newsletter.
International Academy for CME/CPD Accreditation Leaders
The ACCME and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada have joined together to create the International Academy for CPD Accreditation. The purpose of the Academy is to provide an opportunity for interchange for leaders serving in continuing medical e...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Biomedicine on Display is moving to www.museion.ku.dk
After almost seven years it’s time for change! This blog was aired on 22 December 2004, and now we’re moving to Medical Museion’s new integrated site: www.museion.ku.dk.
In many respects, Biomedicine on Display has been a pioneer blog. It was the first medical museum blog, actually one of the first museum blogs altogether, and one of the first scholarly blogs dealing with medical history, history of science and medical science studies. In addition, it was one of first scholarly blogs in Denmark and probably the first blog at the University of Copenhagen.
We’ve posted on a regular basis, a...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - October 18, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: blogging Source Type: blogs
