What Does the Helium Shortage Mean for MRI?
Not only is Party City shutting down 45 stores in part because of the worldwide helium deficit, but medical imaging centers are also vulnerable to the short supply.The chemical element is a byproduct of natural gas production and the second-most common element in the universe. At one point the United States was the world ’s top helium producer, but got wrapped up in financial troubles and resorted to selling off its reserves in the late 1990s. Yet as of recently, Qatar, the world’s main producer of helium and claims 75 percentof global supply, was forced to stop exporting the gas after a handful of Middle Eastern coun...
Source: radRounds - May 17, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Update: How to Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime
Summary: the Corruption of Health Care Leadership as a Major Cause of Health Care DysfunctionAs we wrote in August, 2017, Transparency International (TI) defines corruption asAbuse of entrusted power for private gainIn 2006,TI published a report on health care corruption, which asserted that corruption is widespread throughout the world, serious, and causes severe harm to patients and society.the scale of corruption is vast in both rich and poor countries.Also,Corruption might mean the difference between life and death for those in need of urgent care. It is invariably the poor in society who are affected most by corruptio...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 17, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect conflicts of interest Donald Trump health care corruption regulatory capture Source Type: blogs
Profiles of Every Terrorism Vetting Failure in the Last 30 Years
In my newpolicy analysis released today, I identify 65 vetting failures where the visa vetting system allowed a foreign-born person to enter the United States as an adult or older teenager when they had already radicalized —80 percent occurred before 9/11. Just 13 vetting failures have occurred since 9/11, and only one—the last one (Tashfeen Malik)—resulted in any deaths in the United States. That’s one vetting failure for every 29 million visa or status approvals, and one deadly failure for every 379 million visa or status approvals from 2002 to 2016.As I note, 9/11 is reasonable point of analysis because after th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
The Two Faces of Mohammed bin Salman
Saudi Arabia ’s prodigal son returns to Washington this week, beginning a tour through the United States apparently aimed at drumming up investment in the country. Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is young with big ideas: he wants to reform Saudi society and wean the Saudi economy off oil. He also wants to build up S audi as a foreign policy player – with or without the United States – and cement Saudi dominance in the Gulf.It ’s small wonder then that profiles and articles about the prince typically either laud him as a great reformer or simply criticize his foreign policy blunders. The truth is an accurate portrayal of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 19, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Emma Ashford Source Type: blogs
What are the Kabul Attacks Signaling?
In January, Kabul endured three deadly attacks. On January 20, the Talibanstormed Kabul ’s InterContinental Hotel, killing 30 people (mainly foreigners) in a siege that lasted 14 hours. A week later,Taliban militantsdrove an ambulance into adesignated safe zone,killing at least95 people and injuring 158, whileISISclaimed responsibility for attacking theMarshal Fahim Military Academy west of Kabul that killed11 Afghan soldiers. President Trump responded by contending that there couldbe no negotiations with the Taliban. And though hisState of the Union addressonly briefly discussed foreign policy, the president vowed not t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 8, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Sahar Khan Source Type: blogs
Physicians share same mission across cultures and countries
A guest column by the American College of Physicians, exclusive to KevinMD.com.
As part of my role in International Programs at the American College of Physicians (ACP), I have a unique opportunity to travel frequently and engage with internists around the world. In fact, I am writing this while almost 7,000 miles away from home, participating in the 4th Annual Qatar Internal Medicine Conference/Best of ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting in the city of Doha.
Changes to U.S. immigration policy and travel rules along with uncertainty around our own health care system have certainly made this an interesting time to travel inte...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 22, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/philip-a-masters" rel="tag" > Philip A. Masters, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary Care Public Health & Policy 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
New Economic Freedom Report on Prosperity, Gender Equality and Populism
TheEconomic Freedom of the World: 2017 Annual Reportis out today. Co-published in the United States by the Fraser Institute (Canada) and the Cato Institute, it continues to find a strong relationship between economic freedom on the one hand, and prosperity and other indicators of human well-being on the other.The United States ranks 11 out of 159 countries, indicating a slight improvement recently in its rating, but its economic freedom remains far below what it was in the year 2000, when it began a long decline. Since 1970, the index has typically ranked the United States among the top four countries. The top countries in...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 28, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Not subject to debate
Here is a partial list of entities and people who accept that human activity is causing dangerous changes in the earth ' s climate.195 sovereign nations (participants in theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). That is every country on earth including the Democratic People ' s Republic of Korea. It also includes countries whose economies are heavily dependent on fossil fuel extraction, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Saudis are planning to leave much of their oil in the ground. Exxon Mobil Corporation (although they lied about it for decades)Former Exxon CEO and current U.S. Secretary of State Rex TillersonV...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 19, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Is Trump Putting Us Back on the Road to War with Iran?
On Monday, the Trump administration once again officially certified that Iran is in compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement that rolled back Iran ’s nuclear program and subjected it to unprecedented levels of inspections and monitoring in exchange for sanctions relief. But, according tomultiplereports, Trump was very close to refusing to do so.Apparently, there is a split in the administration. Some of Trump ’s national security advisors, along with some hawks on Capitol Hill, are intent on torpedoing the Iran nuclear deal. And Trump was set to officially claim, contrary to the fac...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 19, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
The BCRA Is An Improvement Over Obamacare. Here ’ s why..
ANISH KOKA MD
Dr. Jha writes on these pages in typically stirring fashion about his views on the recent health care kerfuffle and rightly so fingers what the real focus of our efforts should be: Cost. He ends by slaying both sides because of their refusal to confront the hospital chargemonster – the fee schedule hospitals make that remarkably only really applies to the uninsured.
Unfortunately, the solution proposed ensures hospital fee schedules for the uninsured are no greater than Medicare reimbursements, which is far from perfect. Consider that the Medicare reimbursement for a stent placed to an ischemic limb is ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Economics Repeal Replace Uncategorized Anish Koka BCRA Obamacare Source Type: blogs
How the Gulf Row Could Tear Libya Apart Even Further
Since Gadhafi was removed from power, Gulf nations have been vying for position in Libya through proxy forces to influence political outcomes. Libya ' s rival militias — armed and funded by their respective Gulf sponsors — set the framework for the civil conflict that erupted in 2014 and continues today. Current tensions between Qatar and its neighbors are adding to the instability. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Placating the Gulf States Distorts Middle East Policy
A lengthyNew York Times article over the weekend touches on a contradiction in the U.S. strategy against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Even as the United States cooperates in a de facto tactical alliance with Iran against ISIS, we ’re engaged in a longer-term strategy against Iranian influence in the Middle East. U.S. and Iranian-backed forces have even clashed in battlefield skirmishes in recent weeks.Picking a fight with an implicit ally is problematic for many reasons. Perhaps most worryingly, such clashesrisk sucking U.S. forces deeper into Syria’s civil war.The article quotes Lebanese scholar Kamel W...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 12, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
Trade-Offs in the Middle East
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump delighted in waving to packed crowds whilethe Rolling Stones ’“You can’t always get what you want” played. At the time, the song seemed like a repudiation of the Republican elites who had failed to support his campaign. Today, as his Middle East policy careens off the rails, it’s a concept the President himself should learn to grasp.Mere hours afterSecretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that tensions between Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other regional states were negatively impacting the fight against ISIS and calling for all sides to defuse tensions, the Presidentc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Emma Ashford Source Type: blogs
Celebrate World Teachers ’ Day With a Dose of School Matters
This article offers suggestions on negotiating more reasonable make-up policies for SLPs in schools. This column was, by far, the most viewed article in this series.
Continuing the theme of missed-session policies, the most popular article among all of The ASHA Leader’s content over the past 12 months also touched on this hot topic:
“OSEP Reaffirms Guidance on Missed Services in Schools.”
Happy reading!
Shelley D. Hutchins is a content producer/editor for The ASHA Leader. shutchins@asha.org. (Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases)
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - October 5, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology Events News Speech-Language Pathology Advocacy Schools Source Type: blogs
