The Constitution of the War on Drugs
David Pozen (Columbia University), The Constitution of the War on Drugs (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024): " The Constitution of the War on Drugs " recovers a lost history of constitutional challenges to punitive drug laws. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, advocates... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 3, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The 7 Decade History of ChatGPT
By MIKE MAGEE
Over the past year, the general popularization of AI orArtificial Intelligence has captured the world’s imagination. Of course, academicians often emphasize historical context. But entrepreneurs tend to agree with Thomas Jefferson who said, “I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
This particular dream however is all about language, its standing and significance in human society. Throughout history, language has been a species accelerant, a secret power that has allowed us to dominate and rise quickly (for better or worse) to the position of “masters of the un...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI ChatGPT History of AI Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Medical care, medical costs
Thanks to
the Affordable Care Act, something like 90% of Americans have some form of
health insurance. Great news! That means we can all afford the medical services
we need and nobody has to go broke because they get sick or are injured in a
car crash or by somebody exercising their Second Amendment rights! Err, no. Sadly
it does not mean that. In the first place, for the 50% of people who get their
insurance through employment, it ’s costing them more and more for the premiums –
by three times the rate of inflation, since 1999. With that, plus
deductibles, copays, and payment denials by in...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 2, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Lifestyle Matters: Let ’s optimize cognition, health and life in 2024
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, featuring fascinating research findings on lifestyle, protective brain structures, Internet access, mental health, brain imaging, and more.
#1. Lifestyle matters: What we can do in 2024 to optimize cognition and life, delaying cognitive problems even dementia
“Actor Chris Hemsworth…watched his grandfather live with Alzheimer’s and is making lifestyle changes after learning he has two copies of the APOE4 gene. This gene is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s, and having two copies significantly increases his risk of developing the same condition.” (Smart move reg...
Source: SharpBrains - December 27, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Technology & Innovation adhd Alzheimer’s APOE4 gene Brain-Imaging dementia symptoms frontotemporal dementia lifestyle Neurophet Source Type: blogs
The Economics of Abortion Policy
This article provides a review of the economics of abortion policy. In particular, it focuses on the determinants of abortion reform, as well as... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 17, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Empty myocardial syndrome : A risk marker of mechanical rupture during STEMI
Myocardial development is a complex process that begins in the precardiac mesoderm, and is regulated by a number of genes.
Duelen R, Sampaolesi M. Stem Cell Technology in Cardiac Regeneration: A Pluripotent Stem Cell Promise. EBioMedicine. 2017 Feb;16:30-40.
After formation of tubular heart , initial increase in ventricular mass during period of chamber formation is achieved by development of trabeculations. Trabecular compaction coincides with genesis of coronary circulation, and results in formation of ventricular chambers.The hallmark of sponge-like hearts delayed and poor compactive forces.
Time line...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - November 1, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Droplet Battery Harnesses Ionic Gradients for Bioelectronic Implants
Researchers at Oxford University have developed a tiny battery that can power small implantable devices, such as drug delivery technologies. The new battery is inspired by the ionic gradients that electric eels use to generate electricity. It involves tiny droplets of a conductive hydrogel that are placed near each other. Each droplet has a different ionic concentration, meaning that ions will flow from high concentration droplets to low concentration droplets. When the researchers connect electrodes to this chain of droplets they can harness the energy generated by this ion gradient in the form of electricity. The researc...
Source: Medgadget - September 29, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Surgery Oxford Source Type: blogs
The Next Pandemic May Be an AI one
By KIM BELLARD
Since the early days of the pandemic, conspiracy theorists have charged that COVID was a manufactured bioweapon, either deliberately leaked or the result of an inadvertent lab leak. There’s been no evidence to support these speculations, but, alas, that is not to say that such bioweapons aren’t truly an existential threat. And artificial intelligence (AI) may make the threat even worse.
Last week the Department of Defense issued its first ever Biodefense Posture Review. It “recognizes that expanding biological threats, enabled by advances in life sciences and biotechnology, are among the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy AI Bioterrorism ChatGPT COVID Department of Defense Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Reasonableness in Capacity Law
Binesh Hass (University of Oxford), Reasonableness in Capacity Law, Mod. L. Rev. (2023): It is not uncommon for people to hold bizarre views. Sometimes, these views appear before the courts in mental capacity cases. Judges must then decide if the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 14, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The evolution of lighting vs. cholesterol treatments: a tale of innovation and value
An excerpt from Why Not Better and Cheaper: Healthcare and Innovation by James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer with permission from Oxford University Press, © 2023 by Oxford University Press. In a famous essay, Nobel prize-winning economist William Nordhaus studied the evolution of lighting. From medieval times until the beginning of the 19th Century,
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The evolution of lighting vs. cholesterol treatments: a tale of innovation and value originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 20, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: James B. Rebitzer, PhD and Robert S. Rebitzer, MBA Tags: Policy Cardiology Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
The Heat is On
BY KIM BELLARD
Attention must be paid: the world is now hotter than it has been in 125,000 years.
A week ago, we broke the record for average global temperature. That record was broken the next day. Later in the week it was broken yet again. Yeah, I know; weather records are broken all the time, so what’s the big deal?
Well, it is a big deal, and we should all be worried. “It’s not a record to celebrate and it won’t be a record for long,” Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, told CNN.
Bill Maguire, a professor a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Foundation Models Are Exciting, but They Should Not Disrupt the Foundations of Caring
Jessica Morley (University of Oxford), Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford), Foundation Models Are Exciting, but They Should Not Disrupt the Foundations of Caring (2023): The arrival of Foundation Models in general, and Large Language Models (LLMs) in particular, capable of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 10, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
It ’s time to replace the 0 to 10 pain intensity scale with a better measure
Adapted from The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic. Published by Oxford University Press in January 2023. The 0-to-10 pain intensity scale that has become a familiar feature of clinical care had its origin in experimental psychophysics studies that investigated the relationship between noxious stimulus intensity and pain experience.
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It’s time to replace the 0 to 10 pain intensity scale with a better measure originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mark Sullivan, MD and Jane Ballantyne, MD Tags: Conditions Pain Management Source Type: blogs
