‘Just Follow the Science’ Shows Some Improvement
Peter Van DorenDuring summer 2020 I wrote anessay about what science can and cannot do and the role it can play in public policy decisions including those pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. I concluded that science explains relationships between cause and effect: no more and no less. No normative conclusions about individual or collective decisions follow directly from science. Instead, costs, benefits, and other values properly enter both individual and collective decisions.I have writtenthreetimessince then about gradual recognition of this argument among medical professionals as well as journalists. I a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
Universal Design in Law Schools
Matthew L Timko (David C. Shapiro Memorial Law Library), Universal Design in Law Schools, SSRN (2018): Universal Design is an emerging trend in higher education, and Law Schools must be part of this movement. This paper will identify the Universal... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 10, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Meet Teen Mental Health App BeMe Health & Their “ TikTok ” Type Approach to Behavioral Health Care
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Teen mental health has hit crisis-level concern these days, and seed-funded startup BeMe Health is hoping to help with a digital mental health app purpose-built just for teens. Fast Company labeled the app as “TikTok for teen mental health,” which is a spot-on description of its exciting, social-media-like look and feel, but a bit of an undersell of the evidence-backed behavioral health care the app is actually providing.
Co-founders Nicki Tessler and Mandeep Dhillon introduce us to BeMe, and tell us why they believe the TikTok-like approach they’re taking – with its emphasis o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
We put more effort into avoiding losses than making gains
By Emma Young
The discovery that we care more about losses than equivalent gains has been hugely influential in behavioural economics. The idea was introduced back in 1979, in a paper by Dan Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Since then, it’s been demonstrated in a huge range of settings, and led to some effective interventions for everything from sales teams to students. Take this finding from 2016: when students are given maximum grade points at the start of the semester and then lose points according to their performance in exams and assignments, they do better in the end than students who start with zero points and must ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 2, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Decision making Source Type: blogs
Legal challenge from Disability Rights Texas may have repercussions in schools across the country
Parents of disabled children together with Disability Rights Texas won a ruling in November that could have ramifications well beyond the state of Texas. In July, Texas Governor Abbot issued an executive order, GA-38, that prohibited schools from instituting a mask mandate. He insisted that whether a child should be compelled to wear a maskRead more …Legal challenge from Disability Rights Texas may have repercussions in schools across the country originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/eva-kittay" rel="tag" > Eva Kittay, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Vaccinatie twijfeltelefoon (the Dutch vaccination doubt helpline)
I thought this was an interesting idea. This is a Dutch initiative, staffed by trained medical students from a number of medical schools. The idea is that you phone it to get more information about the vaccine - should I have the vaccine if I have this co-existing condition, can I have the vaccine if I am pregnant, that sort of thing.If the caller is just calling to be anti-vaccination and to deliver views on that, then they are asked if they have a medical question, and if not, the call is ended. The people answering the calls don ' t try to persuade you to take the vaccine, their role is to an...
Source: Browsing - January 6, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
The U.S. doesn ’t have enough faculty to train the next generation of nurses
Despite a national nursing shortage in the United States, over 80,000 qualified applications were not accepted at U.S. nursing schools in 2020, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. This was due primarily to a shortage of nursing professors and a limited number of clinical placements where nursing students get practical job training.Read more …The U.S. doesn ’t have enough faculty to train the next generation of nurses originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/rayna-m-letourneau" rel="tag" > Rayna M. Letourneau, PhD, RN < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Nursing Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Rooting For Schumpter ’ s Gale
By KIM BELLARD
Not familiar with Schumpeter’s gale? You may be more familiar with the term “creative destruction.” Schumpeter’s “gale of creative destruction” is the inevitable “process of industrial mutation that continuously revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”
We need a Schumpeter’s gale in healthcare.
What made me think of this was the news that Tik Tok became the most popular internet site in the world, surpassing even Google. It reminded me that things sometimes do change; perhaps there is so...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech big tech Healthcare Healthcare system Schumpeter tiktok Source Type: blogs
Ten insights on human well-being and potential from two giants we sadly lost in 2021: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Ed Diener
Many of us suffered terrible losses in 2021. In the field of positive psychology, we lost two of our most influential scholars: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Ed Diener. In their honor, I’d like to remember and appreciate the contributions they made to the understanding of human flourishing.
Csikszentmihalyi was born in 1934 in what today is Hungary. He grew up curious and spirited, but his world changed with the outbreak of World War II and the instability that followed. After attending a lecture by Carl Jung as a young adult, he left for the United States and eventually landed at the University of Chicago, setting out to ...
Source: SharpBrains - December 13, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning behavior happiness human behavior human potential Positive-Psychology Psychological Science well-being Source Type: blogs
An Upgraded Hippocratic Oath Is Needed In The Digital And A.I. Era
The Hippocratic Oath is the most famous text in Western medicine. It constitutes the ethical basis of the medical profession. For centuries, it has provided an overview of the principles of this noble mission and doctors’ professional behaviour. At the dawn of a new era in medicine, it is high time to rewrite the Oath so that it would reflect the state of technological development, changes in social structures and in general, the requirements of the 21st century.
These are our suggestions.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
Used by many medical schools at graduation ceremonies, the medical profession adopted the ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 7, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine Medical Education digital health Healthcare technology med student MedEd hippocratic oath code of conduct Source Type: blogs
There is no quick fix for kids ’ cold and flu symptoms but there are things you can do
Colder weather is upon us again – and so is cold and flu season. Nearly two years into the fight against COVID-19, we welcome children returning to schools, daycare, and sports. But with the loosening of restrictions and increased social contacts, we are also now seeing increased circulation of common seasonal respiratory viruse s. Kids areRead more …There is no quick fix for kids’ cold and flu symptoms but there are things you can do originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 2, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/olivia-ostrow-and-janet-reynolds" rel="tag" > Olivia Ostrow, MD and Janet Reynolds, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Researchers Want To Create Safe, Inclusive Virtual Reality Hangouts For Teens
By Emma L. Barratt
The advent of the internet shifted how we socialise. Chat rooms, forums, and eventually social media platforms opened up new ways to both communicate and express ourselves. Online anonymity, for example, allowed us to be whoever we pleased to anyone with a connection — for better or worse. Psychological research followed this shift, and decades later there are troves of papers on almost every aspect of online interaction you could hope to explore.
As technology continues to march onwards, it’s brought with it increasingly accessible options for socialising in virtual reality (VR). Though VR is...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Social Technology Source Type: blogs
Teaching Law And Artificial Intelligence
Brendan Johnson& Francis X. Shen, Teaching Law and Artificial Intelligence, 22 Minn. J. L. Sci.& Tech. 23 (2021): In this Essay we present the first detailed analysis of how U.S. law schools are beginning to offer more courses... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 24, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Education Equity During COVID-19: Analyzing In-Person Priority Policies for Students with Disabilities
Bruce Easop (Stanford University), Education Equity During COVID-19: Analyzing In-Person Priority Policies for Students with Disabilities, 74 Stanford L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022): During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools nationwide failed to provide essential supports and services to students with disabilities. Based... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 11, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Some recent posts of interests from my lab blog and MicroBEnet
So I have been lax in blogging these days as I spend a lot of time on Twitter. And when I do write blog posts, I don ' t always post here - I also post blog posts to a few other places including my lab blog and the microBEnet blog. Here are a few moderately recent posts from these placesLab BlogThe tale of the blue soy products – from contaminated soy milk to a new publicationThe Benefits (and Occasional Drawbacks) of Integrating Evolutionary and Genomic Studies (talk video and slides)New paper from the Eisen lab (with many others) on Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbiontsmicroBEnet blogMetagenomic Binning / As...
Source: The Tree of Life - November 5, 2021 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
