Tiptoeing Around Facebook In Healthcare
Data privacy scandals, help in rigging elections, spreading fake news: Facebook has some tough months behind it and users are not happy with the social media giant’s performance. However, Mark Zuckerberg’s company does not only have a political and social impact, but it’s also quite relevant in healthcare. We looked around what Facebook currently does in healthcare and evaluated whether those are viable ways to follow in the future.
What have you done to the world, Zuck?
In November 2018, a Fortune poll suggested that Americans consider Facebook to be the least trustworthy of all the major technology companies...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 28, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Security & Privacy Social media in Healthcare AI facebook fake news future Innovation Mark Zuckerberg smart healthcare technology VR Source Type: blogs
Measles outbreaks: Getting to the root of the problem
Measles outbreaks across the United States have been identified with Texas being the 11th state so far to report an outbreak. The Philippines with over 2 million unvaccinated children has declared an outbreak of measles after nearly 2,000 cases and 26 deaths since January alone. In Madagascar, more than 50,000 people have been infected by the disease […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 26, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/melvin-sanicas" rel="tag" > Melvin Sanicas, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
What Can Brain Imaging Tell Us About Violent Extremism?
In this study,Sacred Values included:Palestinian right of returnWestern military forces being expelled from all Muslim landsStrict sharia as the rule of law in all Muslim countriesArmed jihad being waged against enemies of MuslimsForbidding of caricatures of Prophet MohammedVeiling of women in publicWhat were theNonsacred Values? We don ' t know. I couldn ' t find examples anywhere in the paper. It ' s crucial that we know what these were, to help understand the “sacralization” of nonsacred values, which was observed in an fMRI experiment (described later). So I turned to the Supplemental Material ofBerns et al. (2012)...
Source: The Neurocritic - January 21, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Is there a place for coconut oil in a healthy diet?
Coconut oil has seen a surge in popularity in recent years due to many touted health benefits, ranging from reducing belly fat to strengthening the immune system, preventing heart disease, and staving off dementia. These claims are often backed by celebrity endorsements and bolstered by proponents of popular diets such as ketogenic and Paleo, with little support from scientific evidence. On the flip side, and further adding to the confusion, you also may have seen headlines calling out coconut oil as “pure poison,” implying that it shouldn’t be consumed at all. Given these contradictory claims, a question of much pub...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Vasanti Malik, ScD Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
U.S. Trade Policy Agenda in 2019? Fixing What's Been Breaking Since January 20, 2017
Upon taking office in 2017, President Trump accused trade partners of underhandedness, demonized U.S. companies with foreign supply chains, and perpetuated the false narrative that trade is a zero-sum game requiring an “America First” agenda. He withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, threatened to pull out of North American Free Trade Agreement and the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and initiated a war of attrition against the World Trade Organization by refusing to endorse any new Ap pellate Body judges until his unspecified demands were met. Yet, those were still the halcyon days of trade.In...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 8, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition 2018: winning images
The objective of this collage is therefore to recognize diversity, as an essential aspect of our existence.
“Look into my eyes”Lidianne Salvatierra, Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), Brazil
Frontal face of a jumping spider (Salticidae). Jumping spiders have well developed eyes and can actually form images.
The post BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition 2018: winning images appeared first on Research in progress blog. (Source: BioMed Central Blog)
Source: BioMed Central Blog - December 14, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Davy Falkner Tags: Open Access Publishing Research in progress photo competition Source Type: blogs
2018 Midterms: The Year of the Female Physician
By NIRAN AL-AGBA MD
While women make up more than half of the U.S. population, an imbalance remains between who we are as a nation and who represents us in Congress. The gender disparity is no different for physicians: more than one third of doctors in the U.S. are women, yet 100 percent of physicians in Congress are men. To date, there have only been two female physicians elected to Congress.
However, in the coming midterm election, there are six races with a chance at making history. It’s these battles which could make 2018 “The Year of the Female Physician.”
I remember being a first-time voter in 199...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Physicians Politics Midterm Elections Niran Al-Agba Women Source Type: blogs
The Future Holds Smart Habitats for People With Special Needs
No matter whether it’s about the problems of aging, vision, hearing, disabilities or other permanent conditions, modern urban environments or residential places often disregard people with special needs. Luckily, technology and smart design might offer solutions on how to make cities more accessible, more inclusive and entirely suited for everyone in the future.
Technology could support smart habitats for people’s real needs
Grandmas, children, pregnant women, Filipinos, French or American people, tall, small, big, round-faced, blond, black-haired or bold – people differ in all kinds of ways, and we could go on for h...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 1, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers Researchers accessible disability health technology inclusive Innovation people with special needs smart city smart design Source Type: blogs
Higher-paid Immigrants Forced to Wait Longer Due to Per-country Limits
In America ’s strange legal immigration system, every country receives the exact same quota for green cards—7 percent of the number issued—regardless of how populous it is. When immigrants—mainly Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, and Mexicans—hitthese “per-country limits,” nationals of other countries may pass them in line. This createsmassive wait times for some immigrants, while cutting the waits for everyone else.In 2018, for example, employer-sponsored immigrants with bachelor ’s or master’s degreeswaited more than three years for a green card if they were born in China, and about a decade if they were bor...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 22, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
PragerU's " A Nation of Immigrants " Video Has Serious Problems
This report finds problems with immigrant assimilation in Europe, especially for those from outside of the European Union, but the findings for the United States are positive. In comparison to Europe and the rest of the OECD, immigrants in the United States are assimilating very well. The thirdwork by University of Washington economistJacob Vigdor offers a historical perspective. He compares modern immigrant civic and cultural assimilation to the level of immigrant assimilation in the early 20th century (an earlier draft of his book chapter ishere while the published version is available in thiscollection). For t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 26, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
International Palliative Care Education - EPEC-Peds
By Stacy S. Remke (@StacyRemke)In about 2004, our program embarked on a regional pilot project to teach healthcare workers – doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and others – to provide pediatric palliative care. Our region is the Upper Midwest: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota. “Join pediatric palliative care,” we joked, “and see the world!!”Little did we know.From these first steps began a truly humbling and inspiring journey across many continents and into many communities.Much of this started when a project I was involved with –Education in Palliative and End of Life Care for Pedi...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 21, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: international pediatrics remke Source Type: blogs
Why Bitcoin Is Not an Environmental Catastrophe
The environmental impact of cryptocurrencies looms large among the many concerns voiced by sceptics. Earlier this year, Agust ín Carstens, who runs the influential Bank for International Settlements,called Bitcoin “a combination of a bubble, a Ponzi scheme and an environmental disaster.”Carstens ’ first two indictments have been challenged. Contrary to his assertion, while the true market potential of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other such decentralized networks remains uncertain, by now it is clear to most people that they are more than mere instruments for short-term speculation and the fleec ing of unwitting buyers.Tha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 4, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Diego Zuluaga Source Type: blogs
Health4TheWorld Named Tech Startup of The Year: Interview with Founders
Health4TheWorld, a Silicon Valley start-up providing education and technology solutions for resource-poor communities worldwide, has been named the 2018 Stevie Silver Award Winner by the American Business Awards for the category of Services. Created in 2002, the Stevie Awards are meant to “honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals worldwide.” One of the competition judges described Health4TheWorld as, “One of the best uses of technology to help patients with limited access to healthcare.” Commenting on the recognition, D...
Source: Medgadget - August 9, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Informatics Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Why the Legal Immigration System Is Broken: A Short List of Problems
In no particular order, here is a list of a few problems that comprehensive immigration reform should address (a few of which are mentioned in the immigration chapter of the Cato Handbook for Policymakers):1. A far too restrictive system overall.
2. Static immigration quotas.
3. Quotas on nationalities —the law micromanages immigrant demographics.
4. Immigrants wait in line for decades.
5. Immigrant workers are counted against multiple quotas.
6. There ’s a limit for immigrants with “extraordinary ability”.
7. Workers without college degrees only get 5,000 green cards.
8. The president can end the refugee program...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
