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Strange Bedfoes Against NSA Reform Bill
Julian Sanchez The push to rein in the authorities of the National Security Agency—covertly expanded by a secret court to permit indiscriminate bulk collection of Americans’ communications  and financial records—has become a truly bipartisan affair. In a way, this is nothing new: Liberals who recall the abuses of the Hoover era have long teamed with conservatives skeptical of government power in efforts to check excessive surveillance.  With a Senate vote looming to move forward with the USA FREEDOM Act, however, a still stranger mix of opponents is seeking to block what has emerged as the primary vehicle ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 18, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Julian Sanchez Source Type: blogs

The Burden of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Due to HIV/AIDS in Cameroon.
The objective of this study was to assess the burden of orphans and vulnerable children due to HIV/AIDS in Cameroon. A structured search to identify publications on orphans and other children made vulnerable by AIDS was carried out. A traditional literature search on google, PubMed and Medline using the keywords: orphans, vulnerable children, HIV/AIDS and Cameroon was conducted to identify potential AIDS orphans publications, we included papers on HIV prevalence in Cameroon, institutional versus integrated care of orphans, burden of children orphaned by AIDS and projections, impact of AIDS orphans on Cameroon, AIDS orphans...
Source: Open AIDS Journal - November 25, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Open AIDS J Source Type: research

The Most Exciting Health Stories Of 2014
While 2014 will forever be known as the year of the world's biggest Ebola outbreak -- and the first cases of Ebola contracted in the United States -- the virus is just one of several impactful changes in our medical and personal health landscape. From cancer research breakthroughs to innovative food policies to strides in the search for an HIV vaccine, we're quite a bit further in our understanding of medicine than we were last year. Thanks to research in 2014... Your Fitness Tracker Data Could Lead To The Next Big Medical Discovery Your FitBit, Jawbone and other personal tracking devices and apps are logging every s...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 16, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news

Recruiting for values in healthcare: a preliminary review of the evidence
Abstract Displaying compassion, benevolence and respect, and preserving the dignity of patients are important for any healthcare professional to ensure the provision of high quality care and patient outcomes. This paper presents a structured search and thematic review of the research evidence relating to values-based recruitment within healthcare. Several different databases, journals and government reports were searched to retrieve studies relating to values-based recruitment published between 1998 and 2013, both in healthcare settings and other occupational contexts. There is limited published research related t...
Source: Advances in Health Sciences Education - January 25, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research

Microsoft Co-Founder Says He Found A Sunken WWII Warship
TOKYO (AP) — Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen and his research team have found the wreckage of a massive Japanese World War II battleship off the Philippines near where it sank more than 70 years ago, he said Wednesday. The apparent discovery of the Musashi, one of the largest battleships in history, comes as the world marks the 70th anniversary of the war's end. Allen and the team aboard his superyacht M/Y Octopus found the ship on Sunday, more than eight years after their search began, Allen said in a statement issued by his publicity agency, Edelman. Detailed images captured by a...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - March 4, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Three Dimensional Perceptions of Medical/Health Travelers and Destination Brand Choices: Cases of Thailand
This study found the statistically significant impacts of the medical travelers’ three dimensional perceptions on medical tourism brand choice. In specific, this research contributes the theory development as the confirmation for the aspects that the medical travelers would select the medical/ health service provider (s) by the perceived congruence between demand and supply of medical facilities, the perceived quality for the congruence of demand and supply of medical facilities, and the image of destination brand in terms of prompted hospitality facilities. Market practitioners can employ the research results to adjust ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - March 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Price Transparency: Removing The Blindfold
Shopping for health care is like shopping blindfolded in Macy’s, says noted health care economist Uwe Reinhardt — consumers don’t know what they are buying or how much it will cost until they have paid and gone home. Moreover, consumers are not the only ones affected by the lack of information; employers as purchasers of insurance, government policy makers, and insurers are all frustrated by the lack of price and quality information that would allow consumers to shop for value in their care. We hope that 2015 will be the year of transparency and the first year in an era of higher value health care. This blog po...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 11, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Eric Barrette and David Newman Tags: All Categories Big Data Business of Health Care Competition Consumers Health Care Costs Payment Source Type: blogs

Sierra Leone Ebola Lockdown Prompts Clashes With Police
* Authorities say lockdown required to fight complacency * Some residents defy lockdown in search of food, water * Sierra Leone has reported nearly 12,000 Ebola cases (Adds quote from resident of Devil Hole, further detail) By Josephus Olu-Mammah and Umaru Fofana FREETOWN, March 28 (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas at an angry crowd fighting over food supplies in Sierra Leone on Saturday, while other residents defied a three-day national lockdown that the government hopes will accelerate the end of the Ebola epidemic. Sierra Leone has reported nearly 12,000 cases and more than 3,000 dea...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

A Reasonably Good Week for the Fourth Amendment
This week, two federal court decisions here in D.C. reiterated the importance of the Fourth Amendment in police encounters. In the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the Court’s opinion in Rodriguez v. United States, declaring that prolonging a traffic stop to initiate a K-9 sniff of a vehicle was unconstitutional. It’s not a revolutionary decision or a watershed moment in the Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, but it’s always good to see the Court recognize that there are limits on the police during traffic stops. (Such recognition is not usually the case.) That said, police will still try ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 24, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Jonathan Blanks Source Type: blogs

Editorial Migrant crisis in the Mediterranean
In October, 2014, the British Government quietly announced its decision to withdraw support for Mare Nostrum, a search and rescue operation for migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. “We do not support planned search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean,” said Baroness Anelay, to avoid “an unintended ‘pull factor’, encouraging more migrants to attempt the dangerous sea crossing and thereby leading to more tragic and unnecessary deaths.” As of April 27, more than 1700 men, women, and children—each seeking a better and safer life in Europe—have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean, compared with 96 ove...
Source: LANCET - May 1, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The Lancet Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Second Circuit Declares NSA's Telephone Dragnet Unlawful
In a ruling certain to profoundly shape the ongoing debate over surveillance reform in Congress, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today held that the National Security Agency’s indiscriminate collection of Americans’ telephone calling records exceeds the legal authority granted by the Patriot Act’s controversial section 215, which is set to expire at the end of this month.  Legislation to reform and constrain that authority, the USA Freedom Act, has drawn broad bipartisan support, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stubbornly pressed ahead with a bill to reauthorize §215 without any chan...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Julian Sanchez Source Type: blogs

Evaluation of Bar, Barnase, and Barstar recombinant proteins expressed in genetically engineered Brassica juncea (Indian mustard) for potential risks of food allergy using bioinformatics and literature searches.
Abstract The potential allergenicity of Bar, Barnase, and Barstar recombinant proteins expressed in genetically engineered mustard for pollination control in plant breeding was evaluated for regulatory review. To evaluate the potential allergenicity of the Bar, Barnase and Barstar proteins amino acid sequence comparisons were made to those of known and putative allergens, and search for published evidence to the sources of the genes using the AllergenOnline.org database. Initial comparisons in 2012 were performed with version 12 by methods recommended by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the Indian Council of ...
Source: Food and Chemical Toxicology - June 12, 2015 Category: Food Science Authors: Siruguri V, Bharatraj DK, Vankudavath RN, Rao Mendu VV, Gupta V, Goodman RE Tags: Food Chem Toxicol Source Type: research

Part I: Narrative Review of Current Context of Malaria and Management Strategies in Uganda.
Abstract In accordance with international targets, the Uganda National Malaria Control Strategic Plan established specific targets to be achieved by 2010. For children under five, this included increasing the number of children sleeping under mosquito nets and those receiving a first-line antimalarial to 85%, and decreasing case fatality to 2%. This narrative review offers contextual information relevant to malaria management in Uganda since the advent of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) as first-line antimalarial treatment in 2004. A comprehensive search using key words and phrases was conducted using the we...
Source: Acta Tropica - August 6, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kassam R, Collins JB, Liow E, Rasool N Tags: Acta Trop Source Type: research

Healthcare information on YouTube: A systematic review
This article reviews the peer-reviewed literature addressing the healthcare information available on YouTube. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were determined, and the online databases PubMed and Web of Knowledge were searched using the search phrases: (1) YouTube* AND Health* and (2) YouTube* AND Healthcare*. In all, 18 articles were reviewed, with the results suggesting that (1) YouTube is increasingly being used as a platform for disseminating health information; (2) content and frame analysis were the primary techniques employed by researchers to analyze the characteristics of this information; (3) YouTube contains mis...
Source: Health Informatics Journal - August 27, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Madathil, K. C., Rivera-Rodriguez, A. J., Greenstein, J. S., Gramopadhye, A. K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The Right to Anonymous Speech and Association
Since the Enlightenment, anonymous speech has been an integral component of social change, exemplified by Cato’s Letters, the Federalist Papers, and indeed the Anti-Federalist Papers. Accordingly, the Constitution provides a wide breath for the proper “breathing space” that “First Amendment freedoms need … to survive,” NAACP v. Button (1963), by protecting anonymous-speech rights and requiring judges to be skeptical regarding laws that compel disclosure of identifying information. California’s attorney general, Kamala Harris, has broken with this tradition in demanding that the Center for Competitive Politi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 2, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Randal John Meyer Source Type: blogs