The First Amendment Protects Against Bad ‐Faith Prosecutions
Thomas A. BerryIn 2020, Netflix began streaming the French filmCuties. The film follows an 11 ‐year‐old Senegalese immigrant, Amy, torn between her family’s conservative culture and a more progressive French society. In the film, Amy is shown joining a pre‐teen dance group (the “Cuties”), whose sexualized routines are heavily influenced by social media. The film’s me ssage is critical of the influence of social media on young girls, but the film itself attracted significant controversy for its scenes depicting the dance group’s provocative performances.There is room for reasonable debate as to wh...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 8, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry Source Type: blogs
mRNA Vaccines: From Tackling A Pandemic To Treating Cancer
The story of the multi-decade uphill battle Katalin Karikó and her fellow researchers fought to prove messenger RNA can viably be used in medicine is widely known today. In just as little as two years, the world has learned about mRNA technology and how fast it can react when the need arises holding almost unlimited promises in future applications. As always is the case with “instant hits” in science, the ride was actually very long and bumpy, but more on that later.
What is mRNA?
In very simple terms: messenger ribonucleic acids (or mRNAs in short) are the body’s natural way to transport messages from o...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Biotechnology Future of Medicine Nanotechnology cancer cancer research covid19 vaccine research HIV mRNA messenger RNA cancer vaccine malaria malaria vaccine HIV vaccine pancreatic cancer pancreatic cancer va Source Type: blogs
mRNA Vaccines: From Tackling Pandemic To Treating Cancer
The story of the multi-decade uphill battle Katalin Karikó and her fellow researchers fought to prove messenger RNA can viably be used in medicine is widely known today. In just as little as two years, the world has learned about mRNA technology and how fast it can react when the need arises holding almost unlimited promises in future applications. As always is the case with “instant hits” in science, the ride was actually very long and bumpy, but more on that later.
What is mRNA?
In very simple terms: messenger ribonucleic acids (or mRNAs in short) are the body’s natural way to transport messages from o...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Biotechnology Future of Medicine Nanotechnology cancer cancer research covid19 vaccine research HIV mRNA messenger RNA cancer vaccine malaria malaria vaccine HIV vaccine pancreatic cancer pancreatic cancer va Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 659
This week ' s case features adigitally-scanned section of a subcutaneous nodule from the thigh of a man living in rural Senegal. The man presented with a several month history of severe itching in his lower extremities and abdomen, accompanied with a papular skin rash and focal loss of skin pigmentation. Here is a low power view of the skin and underlying nodule:Diagnosis? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - November 1, 2021 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 656
It ' s time for our monthly case with Idzi Potters and theInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp:The following was seen in a urine sediment from a backpacker returning to Belgium following a 2-month ' s trip in Northern Senegal. During his travels, he reports being bitten by insects, drinking and eating local foods, and swimming in fresh water lakes. He is asymptomatic, but is concerned that he may has picked up a parasite along the way. How would you interpret this finding? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - October 5, 2021 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 628
This week ' s case if from Idzi Potters and theInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. It looks somewhat similar tolast week ' s case, but it is very different! The following objects were seen in a stool specimen from a middle-aged male with recent travel to Senegal.Thoughts? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - March 1, 2021 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Separation Anxiety – Should Treatment be Imposed for Conjoined Twins?
by Dominic Wilkinson @Neonatalethics On the BBC News website this week, there is a feature on a pair of conjoined twins from Senegal who are currently living in Wales. They have an extremely rare condition – fused at the lower abdomen they have separate brains, hearts and lungs, but shared liver, bladder and digestive system. […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 24, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Dominic Wilkinson Tags: Clinical Ethics Decision making Health Care Children and Families Critical Care Dominic Wilkinson's Posts syndicated Source Type: blogs
DAI Course – Public Feedback From Alumni
This is a continuation of yesterday’s post on the impact and results of the recently created Deep Abundance Integration course, which was designed to help people shift from scarcity to abundance in many areas of life.
In the previous post, I shared some feedback in summary form as well as charts and graphs of people’s ratings. In this post I’ll share the direct words from course alumni who offered to share some public feedback about the experience.
My exact wording of the invite was:
If you’re willing to share any thoughts, results, or feedback that we can post publicly (especially to help others de...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - October 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Creating Reality Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 509
This week features our monthly case from Idzi Potters and theInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. The patient is a European male with recent travel to Senegal who presented with right conjunctivitis. On ocular examination, a 10-cm long worm was identified and removed from the right conjunctiva. It measured 470 micrometers in diameter.A Knott ' s concentration was also performed on the patient ' s blood, revealing 6 larvae per milliliter. Each larva measured approximately 375 micrometers long by 10 micrometers wide.Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - September 3, 2018 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 509
Answer:Dirofilariasp.; most likelyD. repensbased on the presentation, geographic exposure, and morphology of the microfilariae in blood.Idzi and his group recently published this case in EID; you can read about all of the important diagnostic details such as the length of the adult worm, its cuticle, and the morphology of the microfilariae HERE.Here a just a few important points from this case:1.Not all round worms removed from the eye areLoa loa.While loiasis is the ocular roundworm infection that most physicians are familiar with, human dirofilariasis is an emerging infection that should be considered whenever ...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - September 3, 2018 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Rutland Osprey Project
A vast drinking water reservoir in the English county of Rutland, about half way between Peterborough and the home of the pork pie, Melton Mowbray, is home to the first Western Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) to breed in England for 150 years. A translocation programme means that these raptors are now breeding at Rutland Water having been settled there, migrated (naturally) to Africa (Senegal, the tracking devices show) and then returned in the spring.
In paying the birds a visit, we made the mistake of heading to the Wildlife Trust’s Rutland Water Nature Reserve in Egleton, near Oakham, paying our money (to a worthy ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 24, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Ucem osce scenario 2017.2
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
After years of preparation, extensive reading, sleepless nights, marriage breakdowns and caffeine – your week of being show ponies has arrived as the F.UCEM examinations are upon us. Giving hope to those who pray to the Utopian FSM we have managed to locate and leak one of the OSCE examination questions for this weeks exam – hope it helps.
UCEM OSCE SCENARIO
You are the ED Consultant in charge of a tertiary hospital ED
You take handover from the night team.
Iss...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 30, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Utopian Medicine Exam F.UCEM Fellowship OSCE Source Type: blogs
Memo To White Nationalists From A Geneticist: Why White Purity Is A Terrible Idea
On
August 14th, UCLA researchers Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan presented
findings of their study, “When Genetics Challenges a Racist’s Identity: Genetic
Ancestry Testing among White Nationalists,” at a sociology
conference in Montreal. They’d analyzed 3,070 comments organized into 70
threads publicly posted to the (sometimes difficult to access) “social movement
online community” Stormfront.Former
KKK Grand Wizard Don Black launched Stormfront on March 27, 1995. Posts exceed
12 million, ramping up since the 2016 election season. Panofsky and Donovan’s
report has ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 29, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Genetics Health Care Ethics and Hate syndicated Source Type: blogs
Part I: SEMBENE X BLACK GIRL X CAMP THIAROYRE: Domestic Slavery and Bioethics
Image: http://www.sembenefilm.com/The 2015 film, Semebene!, is a documentary about the late writer-director, Ousman Sembene, (1923-2007). His bioethics relevant filmography begins with his first film, Black Girl (1966) and finishes with his last work, Moolaadé (2004). The documentary, Sembene!, is directed by Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman. Samba was Sembene’s friend, colleague, and biographer. Sembene! was screened at the 38th Mill Valley Festival in October 2015. A stroke of programming genius also allowed patrons to view the recently restored Black Girl. Black Girl is one of the Wo...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 5, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: September Williams, MD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Zika virus spread
Zika virus has been known to circulate in parts of sub-Saharan Africa for many years since its first isolation in Uganda in 1947-48, and it probably spread to south-east Asia in about 1945-50. Two major lineages then evolved, one in Africa and one in Asia, where it caused a relatively minor disease of fever with a rash and arthralgia. The virus spread from Asia to Yap in 2007 causing the largest known outbreak of human disease, and from Asia to the South Pacific in 2013-14, including French Polynesia where it caused an explosive outbreak with over 28,000 cases, and subsequently spread to Cook Islands, Easter Island, and Ne...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - February 3, 2016 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
