A Free Trade Valentine
Today millions of Americans will celebrate Valentine ’s Day by purchasing roses for their loved ones and, in so doing, will participate in one of the everyday miracles of capitalism which too often escape our notice. As a recentWashington Post article points out, these roses will most likely have been grown thousands of miles away in Colombia, flown to the United States aboard cargo jets, and then delivered to florists and other retailers at the cost of a mere $1.50 per stem. That this is possible is not only a tribute to the magical powers of capitalism, but —as the newspaper notes—free trade and a2012 agreement be...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 14, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Digital Maps Help Fight Epidemics
Have you ever thought that it would be possible to monitor drug overdoses, Zika cases or the spread of the flu in real time? Have you ever imagined that satellites wouldbe able to tell how and where a malaria epidemic will happen months before the actual outbreak? It is mind-blowing how, in the last years, digital maps developed to a level where they serve as effective tools for evaluating, monitoring and even predicting health events. That’s why I decided to give a comprehensive overview of digital maps in healthcare.
John Snow, cholera and the revolution of maps in healthcare
Before Game of Thrones monopolized John Sn...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 12, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Mobile Health digital health digital technology epidemics epidemiology gc4 Innovation interactive maps Source Type: blogs
Anti-Paper Prophet: Comments on The Curse of Cash
ConclusionRogoff raises many other interesting issues in his response, and trying to cover them all would make this article much too lengthy. His arguments are generally sophisticated and sometimes challenging, even when I disagree with him or believe he hasn’t adequately addressed my concerns. Our most fundamental difference remains our analysis of the State. Rogoff unreflectively adopts what Harold Demsetz characte rizes as the“nirvana” approach to public policy. This makes him far more optimistic than is justified about the overall benevolence and competence of governments, particularly in developed countries. H...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 15, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Source Type: blogs
Our Human Chain
Perhaps you’ve read about the recent uplifting story of a family who became caught in a riptide in Panama City, Florida. Two brothers were struggling approximately 300 feet from shore, and when their mother, grandmother, and others swam out to try to save them, they got caught up in the swirling water as well.
After searching for helpful items such as rope, which was nowhere to be found, some bystanders came up with the idea to create a human chain so they could reach the drowning people. Quickly, 80 people became entwined and, along with a swimmer who used a boogie board and a surfboard to aid those rescued, brought eve...
Source: World of Psychology - July 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janet Singer Tags: Friends General Happiness Inspiration & Hope Motivation and Inspiration Personal chronic shame Compassion Empathy human chain humanity Loneliness Source Type: blogs
A medical student volunteers for a medical brigade to rural Panama
Holding a small bottle of soap and an even smaller wand, I painstakingly blew air through the small circle toward a shabby window in an even shabbier classroom. Bubbles rose and fell with the rhythms of my breath. I created a long chain of bubbles that eventually took over the room, and the hot and humid Panamanian sunlight dyed it the colors of the rainbow.
I was on a medical service trip as a Global Medical Brigade (GMB) volunteer in a rural part of Darien, the largest yet most forgotten province of Panama. The staff and volunteers of GMB set up a mobile clinic in an elementary school on a plateau surrounded by tropical ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 6, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/chang-su" rel="tag" > Chang Su < /a > Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs
CHC impact: The Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) taxonomy of cognitive abilities has gone global
The CHC taxonomy is officially a globetrotter with a large bank of frequent flier miles. An indicator of the increasing prominence and spread of the CHC taxonomy is reflected in the globalization of CHC assessment activities in countries beyond the United States. Several examples, which are not exhaustive, are summarized below. The influence of CHC theory, primarily via university assessment training in the use of the CHC-basedBater ía III Woodcock-Munoz(BAT III; Mu ñoz-Sandoval, Woodcock, McGrew, Mather, N. (2005a, 2005b), is prominent in Spanish speaking countries south of the US border. Th...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - March 6, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Tags: AJT COGTEST ASI ASIS BAT III CHC CHC theory CoVaT-CHC global Indonesia INSBAT Insight OECD PAA WJ III WJ III-IE WJ IV Source Type: blogs
How I Celebrate the New Year With Metastatic Breast Cancer
New Year’s Day 2017 found me in Panama City, Florida. The New Year was rung in by fireworks literally right outside my beach-front window. My husband and I had planned this last-minute trip on Christmas Day, and when we couldn’t get flights, we jumped in the car the next day and headed south from Michigan to Florida.
Love them or hate them, New Year’s celebrations come every year. In the past, I sometimes enjoyed the night or, like many people, often found it a letdown: All of the excitement leading up to one moment, only to wake up the next day in the exact same circumstances you were in the year before.
How Cancer ...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - January 11, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
Hypocrisy on Election Interference
In his press conference last month, President Barack Obama sternlyvoiced concern about “potential foreign influence in our election process.”The goal may be a valid one, but it cloaks hypocrisy of staggering proportions. The United States has been assiduously intervening in foreign elections for decades —perhaps even for centuries.The central issue in the 2016 election was with some hacked emails, published by Wikileaks, indicating that some top members of the Democratic National Committee were rooting for Hillary Clinton to win their party ’s nomination for president. This seems to have been the extent of the “i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 4, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: John Mueller Source Type: blogs
How To Dream Specifically
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There’s a concept in sailing called velocity made good, or VMG for short. Because a sailboat cannot point directly into the wind and make any forward progress, you have to sail at an angle to the wind. So VMG is the speed that you’re actually making toward your destination.
For instance, as part of a round the world sailing trip I took with my family, we wanted to sail from Panama to the Galapagos. Our speed looked great on th...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeremy Cage Tags: creativity featured happiness self improvement success dream specifically how to achieve your goals pickthebrain success tips Source Type: blogs
Practicing medicine in a place where the children have no name
I recently spent a week with the Floating Doctors in Bocas del Toro providing medical care to the Ngabe people in western Panama. In the jungle, there is little concern about prior authorizations or deductibles. There is also a critical lack of access to services that we have available in the U.S. The Ngabe people do not own much. In fact, some kids do not even have names.
In the Ngabe community, there is a very high infant and child mortality rate. Many succumb to the numerous infectious diseases that are prevalent in that area. Some die from accidents from falls out of their homes that are built on stilts.
Because it is ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 2, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/linda-girgis" rel="tag" > Linda Girgis, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
Infrastructure Spending and the Charleston Seaport
George Will ’s oped the other day argued that Congress should hurry up and fund an expansion in the Charleston, South Carolina, seaport. But his piece revealed why the federal government should reduce its intervention in the nation ’s infrastructure, not increase it, as Clinton and Trump are proposing.The Charleston seaport has become crucial to South Carolina ’s economy. Will notes that “1 of every 11 South Carolina jobs — and $53 billion in economic output are directly or indirectly related to Charleston’s port.”There is a problem, however. The Charleston seaport:needs further dredging in order to handle ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 23, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Protectionism Is Crippling Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports
George Will writes in his column today about the importance of the Port of Charleston – and by extension, trade – to the economy of South Carolina. Recent completion of the 10-year project to widen the Panama Canal to accommodate more traffic and passage of a new class of container ships with nearly triple the capacity of their immediate predecessors has exposed a logistics snafu that could cost South Carolina’s economy billions of dollars: Charleston Harbor is too shallow to accommodate these much larger, “Post-Panamax” ships efficiently (only limited sections of the harbor are deep enough and only during high t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 22, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
Is Organization Really the Key to Success?
“Organization is the key to success,” Grandpa Arnold would recite.
Grandpa Arnold, you are right. But for me and millions of other scatter-brained Americans, how do we organize our chaotic lives?
There are credit card PIN numbers, email passwords, and Junior’s Thursday daycare appointment to remember. And the bane of my existence: misplaced keys.
“Did someone take my keys? I have to be at practice in five minutes,” I exclaimed. Searching for the missing keys, I petulantly stomped around the kitchen table, the dining room, and the family room. “Where the [expletive deleted] are they?” I growled.
“Well, Matth...
Source: World of Psychology - August 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew Loeb Tags: Brain and Behavior General Habits Memory and Perception Personal Self-Help Stress clutter Family Forgetfulness Frustration getting organized Losing Things Organization Psychology Worry Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs ’ August Issue: Disparities, Hospital Financing, And More
The August issue of Health Affairs, a variety issue, includes a collection of articles that show the extent of health disparities in the United States and describe approaches designed to address them. There are also articles covering hospital financing, Medicare, and other topics.
Documenting active life expectancy disparities: black and white differences remain
Research previously published, in Health Affairs and elsewhere, has described racial differences in life expectancies. However, very few studies have focused on long-term trends in active life expectancy by race.
Vicki Freedman of the University of Michigan and Br...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 8, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucy Larner Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Disparities Health Affairs journal Medicare Advantage Source Type: blogs
What Is The Private Sector Doing To Help Fight Zika?
Golfer Rory McIlroy, from Northern Ireland and one of the top golfers in the world, stated this week that he would not be participating in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. According to USA Today, McIlroy explained that “even though the risk of infection from the Zika virus is considered low, it is a risk nonetheless and a risk I am unwilling to take.”
What is being done by the private sector to help not only Olympic athletes going to Brazil, but numerous other people affected by this virus in Brazil and other countries, including the United States?
According to a June 6 (updated June 8) whitehouse.gov blog p...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 24, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Lee-Lee Prina Tags: Global Health GrantWatch Public Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Consumers Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW Medicaid Politics Puerto Rico Zika virus Source Type: blogs
