Not Looking Like Leverage: The False Promises of Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
Jordan Cohen andJonathan Ellis AllenIn June, the State Department issued a report suggesting that poor oversight over U.S. weapons in thewar in Yemen directly led to civilian casualties, starvation, and displacement. On September 7, Senators Bernie Sanders (I ‑VT), Elizabeth Warren (D‑MA), and Mike Lee (R‑UT)sent letters in response arguing that the U.S. role in this conflict is “an unacceptable failure” and that the “United States may be complicit to in Yemen would represent a failure in the Biden administration ’s stated prioritization of human rights and our core democratic values.”An estimated...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 12, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen, Jonathan Ellis Allen Source Type: blogs
Monarchy
Our recent focus on obsessive interest in the royal lineage of Judah happens to coincide with what appears to be growing likelihood that there willsoon be a succession to the crown of the United Kingdom. The link is to discussion by Paul Campos, but I ' ll give you mine.The question arises as to why hereditary monarchy became the predominant form of the state from the neolithic until the 18th Century, and still persists in a few nations -- many of the Arab states, in particular. It has also been recreated in the ironically named Democratic People ' s Republic of Korea. Of course the British monarchy is now largely symbolic...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 8, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Gerbode ventricular septal defects type I, II and III
Though congenital left ventricle to right atrium connections have been described as early as 1838 at autopsy [1, cited in 2], the description by Frank Gerbode and colleagues was in 1958, in their surgical series [3]. They described three varieties of communications:
Fusion of the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve to the edges of the ventricular septal defect associated with a perforation of the leaflet. Shunt occurs from left ventricle directly into right atrium.
A defect or cleft of tricuspid valve close to its point of attachment directly overlying the VSD.
A combination of these two lesions.
They also described t...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 8, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Hackers, Breaches And The Value Of Health Data: 2022 E-Book Update
As solutions like remote care are becoming the norm, 3D printing disrupts the normal supply chain and the number of life science studies on tools like artificial intelligence (A.I.) skyrocket, it’s become clear that we are not anticipating the digital health era; we are in the digital health era. This was to come sooner or later, but the pandemic accelerated the process by years.
However, along with the enhanced healthcare landscape that digital health brings along, there is the pressing issue of privacy. To put it bluntly, there is no digital health without sacrificing a part of our privacy. The advanced techno...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Personalized Medicine Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones amazon dev Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
The objective most consistent with recent operations is to conquer Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson, with a view to their eventual annexation and Russification. But not only are they some way from achieving that (w ith much of Donetsk still in Ukrainian hands and the Russia position in Kherson highly contested) it would also require an explicit Ukrainian surrender for it to serve as the basis for a declaration of victory. That will not be forthcoming.-----https://www.afr.com/world/europe/how-britain-giggled-its-way-into-crisis-20220710-p5b0giHow Britain giggled its way into crisisBoris Johnson has exposed the costs of Britain...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Where Is The Red Carpet? Biden ’s Inane Trip To Saudi Arabia
Jordan CohenAhead of his trip to the Middle East, President Joe Bidencoined an op ‐ed in theWashington Post explaining his reasons for traveling to the region —specifically, Saudi Arabia. The President is going to ask Saudi Arabia for help with oil prices and, in exchange, possibly resume sales of offensive weapons to Riyadh that he halted early in his administration.Unfortunately, the reality is that such a decision would prove costly.Biden notes that his tough approach to Saudi Arabia —including revealing the intelligence report on the Khashoggi murder, issuing new sanctions on those involved in Khashoggi’s ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 11, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Golf Update
Since I know my 2 1/2 readers are all big golf fans I don ' t have to tell you that the U.S. Open champion is a British guy who was previously little known on this side of the pond, although he did win a U.S. amateur championship some years ago and has been successful on the European tour. The tournament was mildly interesting to me because it took place near my former home in Jamaica Plain and I used to drive by the site often on my way to Brookline and points west. Anyway, you couldn ' t care less about any of that. But what is actually interesting is that mass murderer, torturer and tyrant Mohammad bin Salman, the ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 20, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 20th 2022
This study showed a negative relationship between the gaps and the number of senescence cells. Moreover, we found a similar reduction in 30-month-old naturally and 7-month-old D-gal-induced aging rats. Given these consistent data from different eukaryotic organisms, it suggests that the Youth-DNA-GAP is a marker of phenotype-related aging degree
Towards Scaffold-Based Regeneration of Dental Pulp
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/06/towards-scaffold-based-regeneration-of-dental-pulp/
Researchers are working towards the ability to regenerate the dental pulp inside teeth. Full regeneration of teeth ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 19, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
On the Large Scale Plans of the Hevolution Foundation
This article is a decent high level summary of what may or may not come to pass via the Hevolution Foundation as a vehicle for the deployment of sovereign wealth into geroscience. The present accelerating trajectory for increased funding of translational aging research is clearly heading in this direction. Consider the few billion in funding devoted to reprogramming in just the last year or two. If not Saudi Arabia, then other countries will sooner or later devote large-scale funding towards the treatment of aging, in the hopes that it will prevent the collapse of entitlement systems due to the rising average age of the po...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 14, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
U.S. Gasoline Prices Depend on Global Oil Markets — Not “Independence”
Alan ReynoldsI still have a 1979 bookmark that says, “INFLATION IS A PAIN IN THE GAS.”Funny but wrong. U.S. gasoline prices follow gyrations in world oil markets, which depend on global (not domestic) supply and demand.What actually happened in 1978 –80, an important German study from Bruegel reminds us, was the Iranian revolution and the Iran ‐Iraq War: “The 1978 Iranian revolution decreased global supply by 4 percent and led to a price increase of 57 percent. The 1980 Iran‐Iraq war decreased global supply by 4 percent and led to a price increase of 45 percent.”What happened to world oil market...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
No, the United States Should Not Kowtow to Saudi Arabia to Stick It to Russia
Justin LoganThe war in Ukraine grinds on, and Western observers seem to be growing frustrated with Russia ’s ability to sustain the war. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen has recently arrived at a ceasefire, although there are plenty of reasons to worry that it will revert to form. Some authors have begun to weigh tradeoffs in U.S. efforts in both theaters.Fareed Zakariawrites that in order to impose more stringent energy sanctions against Russia, Washington needs to go hat in hand to Saudi Arabia and cut a deal for it to pump more oil:The only plausible path to keep the pressure on Russia while not crip...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 27, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Justin Logan Source Type: blogs
I didn't want to do this . . .
I felt I didn ' t have time to argue over something so ridiculous, which is really off topic for this blog, but I ' d like to set the record straight. The claim that the United States is responsible for the Syria civil war, and that it would have been over in a year if the U.S. hadn ' t supplied weapons to the rebels, is preposterous. Sorry, but that is Russian propaganda, and that ' s what concerns me.There is a Wikipedia page, in fact, that details all of the weapons used by Syrian rebels and what is known about where they came from. Much of their weaponry was captured or taken from stockpiles. Some of it came from Iran ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 10, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Values in Arms Exports?
Jordan CohenSenator Patty Murray (D – WA)recently re ‐introduced legislation called theValues in Arms Export Act. This legislation would amend theArms Export Control Act– originally passed in 1976 – to include the evaluation of “responsible behavior and compliance with human rights and law of war the U.S. demands of states purchasing U.S. weapons.”How This Legislation Would Work:This bill comes in the wake of increasing violence around the world involving U.S. weapons – whether it be in Yemen, the Philippines, Mexico, or Central America. To address this problem Sen. Murray’s legislation would create an O...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 11, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Two Small Pharma Firms Join The Struggle To Give Women Access to OTC Birth Control Pills
Jeffrey A. SingerTheNew York Timesreports today that two small oral contraceptive makers, Cadence and HRA Pharma, have been seeking to make their birth control pills over ‐the‐counter since 2016. The Food and Drug Administration has taken five years “dialoguing” with the pharmaceutical firms but has yet to give them “clearance” to formally apply for the switch. TheTimes article cites an FDA spokesperson as saying the agency hopes to reach a decision within 10 months of the companies submitting a formal application.As I have writtenhere, birth control pills are available over ‐the‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 14, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Congress Seeks to Halt US Weapons in Yemen
Jordan CohenOn June 2, 2015, Saudi fighter jets dropped six bombs in Yemen – four on Uqba bin Nafie School and two on Al‐Masnah Health Clinic. The led to the destruction of the school and health clinic and a civilian casualty. While a minimal amount of opposition fighters in the school died, there is no record of these fighters entering the health clinic. The tools used to commit these attacks were US ‐made, laser‐guided Mk‐82 warheads.These same bombs were used in an August 2018 airstrike on a school bus in Yemen that killed dozens of children. Moreover,ReliefWeb, documented 27 unlawfu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 19, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
