U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council: Right Decision, Bad Optics
Confirming rumors that had been circulating for weeks, the Trump administration announced that the United States will withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council. That body consists of 47 member states with rotating, staggered 3-year terms. It is tasked with protecting human rights as well as highlighting and condemning regimes that violate those rights. The Council has been controversial since its inception, especially among American conservatives. George W. Bush ’s administration declined to make the United States a member when the UN General Assembly established the Council in 2006. President Obama reversed that decisio...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 20, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Nars Jenna: First Day
By: Jenna Oien Today I toured the hospital where I will be working for the next nine weeks and it was a humbling experience. I’ll start by saying that I have immense respect for all nurses because of the amount of knowledge we are expected to have, the challenges we face on a daily basis,
The post Nars Jenna: First Day appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - April 20, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Global health master's entry MSN (Entry Into Nursing) Philippines practicum Source Type: blogs
Nars Jenna: MSN Practicum in the Philippines
The post Nars Jenna: MSN Practicum in the Philippines appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - April 4, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: New On the Pulse Education Global health Global nursing Master's Entry into Nursing MSN peace corps Philippines Public health Travel Nurse Source Type: blogs
Inflation Is Largely a Global Phenomenon
When economic journalists speculate about loominginflation risks in the U.S. or any other country, they implicitly assume that each country ’s inflation depends on that country’s fiscal or monetary policies, and perhaps the unemployment rate. YetTheEconomist for March 3rd–9th shows approximately 1 –2 percent inflation in the consumer prices index (CPI) for virtually all major economies. Inflation rates were surprisingly similar regardless of whether countries had budget deficits larger than ours (Japan and China) or big surpluses (Norway and Hong Kong), regardless of whether central banks experimented with“quant...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 9, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Do U.S. Bases Overseas Create Peace?
In aCato study last year, I argued that the U.S. policy of maintaining hundreds of permanent forward-deployed military bases around the world is not only unnecessary, but also actually counterproductive in some ways. Advocates of forward-deployment claim it pacifies the international system by deterring adversaries and reassuring allies, thus ameliorating conflict spirals and staving off interstate wars.I argued instead that today ’s lower rates of interstate conflict area result ofmany factors– includingdefensedominance,economicinterdependence,changingnorms, etc. – other than forward basing and the security guarante...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 23, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
White House Plan Bans 22 Million Legal Immigrants over 5 Decades
ConclusionRestricting legal immigration will unnecessarily deny opportunity to many people and have far-reaching negative consequences for economic growth in the United States. Labor force growth is one of the most important growth factors. Cutting the number of new legal immigrants by about 50% would initially reduce the rate of economic growth in the United States by an estimated 12.5% from its projected level,according to Joel Prakken, senior managing director and co-founder of Macroeconomic Advisers. This penalty would increase in later years as America becomes even more dependent upon immigrants for the country ’s l...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 29, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier, Stuart Anderson Source Type: blogs
Matthew Holt ’ s EOY 2017 letter (charities/issues/gossip)
Right at the end of every year I write a letter summarizing my issues and charities. And as I own the joint here, I post it on THCB! Please take a look–Matthew Holt
Well 2017 has been quite a year, and last year 2016 I failed to get my end-of-year letter out at all. This I would like to think was due to extreme business but it probably came down to me being totally lazy. On the other hand like many of you I may have just been depressed about the election–2016 was summed up by our cat vomiting on our bed at 11.55 on New Years Eve.
Having said that even though most of you will never comment on this letter and I ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Matthew Holt Charity Patient Activism Source Type: blogs
A Clinical Trial By Any Other Name …
By ARTHUR CAPLAN and KELLY McBRIDE FOLKERS
Mosquito borne illnesses pose a significant threat to human health. In the past several years, drug makers have begun developing vaccines for viruses like dengue, Zika, and chikungunya, all of which pose unique risks to billions across the globe. One of them just went terribly, terribly wrong.
Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine division of the multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi, has the problem. In a press release distributed last Wednesday, Sanofi reported that new analysis of long-term safety data for its dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia®, revealed that the vaccine may not be safe ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 7, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Dengue Source Type: blogs
Is the Philippines the Next Caliphate?
The Philippines is a long way from the Islamic State ’ s birthplace in the Middle East, but the jihadis have already seized and held a city there for three months. Even if the Philippines doesn ' t become a major node in the Islamic State ' s network, it will likely remain fertile ground for supporting the Islamic State and its violent agenda. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Patrick B. Johnston; Colin P. Clarke Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 469
The below was seen on a stool agar culture after incubation at room temperature for several days. The patient is a 62-year-old woman from the Philippines.The following were seen in the concentrated wet preparation of the stool specimen :Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - November 20, 2017 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
How Time Can Move Backward For Immigrants Waiting for Green Cards
Many Americans want immigrants to “get in line.” But they cannot do so on their own. They need to get a sponsor, either a U.S. citizen family member or a U.S. employer, to petition the government to grant them permanent residency (a “green card”). Even if immigrants do obtain sponsors, there isn’t just one line to get into . Rather, immigrants haveseparate lines based on the type of sponsorship and their country of origin, and these lines all move at different speeds. Even two immigrants working in essentially the same position whose employer petitions for them on thesame day can end up receiving their green card...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 30, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
A Veterans Day tribute
This is a letter I wrote to my wife’s grandfather for Veterans Day back when he was still alive. He was pretty proud of it, and that made me smile because I knew that if nothing else, he deserved to be proud of what he did for America. When he died a few months ago, I was able to muster up the fortitude to read it at his funeral. Here it is, submitted as a personal tribute to him, as well as to the dying breed of Americans who fought to rid the world of fascism.
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Today I think about you more than any other day of the year. I’ve only known you for about a decade, but a single event in your life shaped my own ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 21, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/keith-pochick" rel="tag" > Keith Pochick, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Financial And Political News Relevant To E-Health And The Health Sector In General.
October 19, 2017 Edition.Trump has been pretty busy this week attacking Obamacare with all sorts of attempts to defund it while really failing to get to grips with a range on natural disasters in California etc.It is hard to believe he is making such a mess of being President as it seems is Theresa may who is pretending to be British PM while sliding ever downwards into some abyss. And add to that the Philippines President is about to declare some form of revolutionary council to stop being ousted.. This really continues to be a very bad dream from which we all need to wake up!-----In Australia the SSM Postal Survey seems ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 19, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Travel Ban Is Based on Executive Whim, Not Objective Criteria
ConclusionFor countries on the list, and for any country wishing to remain off the list, it is vitally important that they understand which factors led to their inclusion or exclusion. If the United States is acting in good faith —seeking to change behavior as opposed to looking for an excuse to ban people—its criteria should be clearly explained and understood. The Iran nuclear deal, for example, hasvery precise requirements for Iran to avoid sanctions, down to the exact percentage of purity for its enriched uranium. This is very far from the case here.No consistent combination of factors or mitigating factors trigger...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
