Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Thelaziasis
The following background data on Thelaziasis are abstracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com. Primary references are available from the author.
Thelaziasis (“oriental eye worm”) in humans was first reported in China in 1917, and autochthonous cases were initially limited to Asia. Over 1,000 cases of human infection were estimated for Asia during a 20-year period (2016 publication) Cases have since been reported in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. The condition is most common during summer and fall, and involves proximity to dogs. 61% of patients are either elderly adults, or children ages three to six...
Source: GIDEON blog - September 23, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: General Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201, courtesy of Dr Hakan Yaman from RFDS.
Question 1
What is the rate of severe permanent TBI in the Asterix comics, 0%, 25%, 50% or 90%?
http://www.asterix.com/the-collection/albums/asterix-and-the-picts.html
+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answer
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five asterix CRP Death dying Felty's syndrome fingernail GCS head injury hospital Pain pencil RA rheumatoid arthritis TBI Source Type: blogs
Why isn ’t everyone exfoliating with AHAs? Episode 159
Why isn’t everyone exfoliating with AHAs?
Melissa says…I’ve been using an night cream with glycolic acid and I noticed that my skin is actually brighter, clearer, and softer. I’ve been using this product for years and I still love it but I worry that it may be too good to be true. Are there any risks associated with alpha hydroxy acid products? Why aren’t we are using them?
Thanks Melissa. Long time fans of the show will remember that I love getting questions about Alpha Hydroxy Acids because it gives me an excuse to retell the story of the marketing director for St. Ives didn’t quite get the ac...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Why isn ’ t everyone exfoliating with AHAs? Episode 159
Why isn’t everyone exfoliating with AHAs?
Melissa says…I’ve been using an night cream with glycolic acid and I noticed that my skin is actually brighter, clearer, and softer. I’ve been using this product for years and I still love it but I worry that it may be too good to be true. Are there any risks associated with alpha hydroxy acid products? Why aren’t we are using them?
Thanks Melissa. Long time fans of the show will remember that I love getting questions about Alpha Hydroxy Acids because it gives me an excuse to retell the story of the marketing director for St. Ives didn’t quite get the ac...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Hypocrisy on Election Interference
In his press conference last month, President Barack Obama sternlyvoiced concern about “potential foreign influence in our election process.”The goal may be a valid one, but it cloaks hypocrisy of staggering proportions. The United States has been assiduously intervening in foreign elections for decades —perhaps even for centuries.The central issue in the 2016 election was with some hacked emails, published by Wikileaks, indicating that some top members of the Democratic National Committee were rooting for Hillary Clinton to win their party ’s nomination for president. This seems to have been the extent of the “i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 4, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: John Mueller Source Type: blogs
Venezuela Enters the Record Book, Officially Hyperinflates
Venezuela ’s inflation has officially become the 57th official, verified episode of hyperinflation and been added to the Hanke-Krus World Hyperinflation Table, which is printed in the authoritative Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History (2013). An episode of hyperinflation occurs when the monthly inflation rate exceeds 50 percent for 30 consecutive days. Venezuela’s monthly inflation rate first exceeded 50 percent on November 3rd and continues to do so, sitting at 131 percent as of December 11, 2016. The peak monthly inflation rate thus far was 221 percent, which is relatively low in the context of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 12, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Steve H. Hanke Source Type: blogs
“The entrance to the grounds of the Serbian Orthodox...
"The entrance to the grounds of the Serbian Orthodox monastery in Decani, in western Kosovo. In January, 4 armed Islamists passed through the checkpoint and were arrested at the monastery gates. In the 17 years since an American-led intervention pulled Kosovo from Serbian oppression, Saudi money and influence have transformed a once-tolerant Muslim society at the into a font of Islamic extremism. Kosovo now finds itself, like the rest of Europe, fending off the threat of radical Islam. Over the last 2 years, the police have identified 314 Kosovars who have gone abroad to join ISIS. The photographer Andrew Testa took this p...
Source: Kidney Notes - May 22, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Russia and NATO Meet: Time for Allies to Call off Mini-Cold War with Moscow
The NATO-Russia Council met in Brussels for the first time in nearly two years. “We are not afraid of dialogue,” announced alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Alas, he explained: “it was reconfirmed that we disagree on the facts, on the narrative and the responsibilities in and around Ukraine.”
Of course, this should surprise no one. After all, Russia is in a mini-Cold War with the U.S. and Europe over Ukraine.
Only reassessing everyone’s respective national interests will change the existing relationship. Should the West maintain permanent confrontation with Russia over Ukraine?
None of the allies has m...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 29, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
HPV Vaccines:
Health Professionals Caught Red-Handed in Hiding Serious Dangers
This is surely the most shameful act of all: While news of widespread lies and deceit in connection with promotion of HPV vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix) is spreading rapidly across the world, a group of government officials and scientific and health professionals have collaborated to cunningly conceal information regarding serious dangers of the vaccines.
Evidence of the deceit was received by Dr. Sin Hang Lee, former Associate Professor at Yale University, pathologist of Milford Hospital, and director of the Milford Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory of Milford, Connecticut, and was published in a press release from San...
Source: vactruth.com - January 25, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Sandy Lunoe Tags: Logical Recent Articles Sandy Lunoe Top Stories Cervarix Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris Dr. Margaret Chan Dr. Melinda Wharton Dr. Nabae Koji Dr. Robert Pless Dr. Sin Hang Lee gardasil HPV Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
Improving peer review efficiency: highlights from PEERE
What is PEERE?
PEERE (pronounced Peer-y) is a European project funded by COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) to improve the efficiency, transparency and accountability of peer review.
The aim as outlined here, in an interview with the Chair of PEERE, Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia), is to bring people together to collaborate on quantitative and qualitative research into peer review and to share data, as appropriate, to address evidence-based initiatives in peer review.
What’s new?
Network analysis and making connections were a reoccurring theme of the workshop.
Anuska Ferligoj (University of Ljubljan...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - November 23, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Elizabeth Moylan Tags: Publishing peer review Source Type: blogs
“The Majid family celebrated the Muslim holiday Eid...
"The Majid family celebrated the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, on September 24, with a picnic in the woods in #Kristinehamn, Sweden. Over nearly two months, the family traveled from Syria through Turkey and eight European countries. In Sweden, challenges remain for the family as they try to build a new life. The photographer @limauricio traveled with the Majid family from Belgrade, the Serbian capital, to their final destination in Sweden. To see more photos and read the full story of the family's journey through Europe, visit the link in our profile. #nytweekender" By nytimes on Instagram. Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - October 25, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Sinking the Lusitania: Lying America into War, Again
The British luxury passenger liner RMS Lusitania was torpedoed a century ago. The sinking was deemed an atrocity of war and encouraged American intervention in World War I.
But the ship was carrying munitions through a war zone and left unprotected by the Royal Navy. The “Great War” was a thoroughly modern conflict, enshrouded in government lies. We see similar deceptions today.
World War I was a mindless imperial slugfest triggered by an act of state terrorism by Serbian authorities. Contending alliances acted as transmission belts of war. Nearly 20 million died in the resulting military avalanche.
America’s Woodrow...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
FENS Featured Regional Meeting (FFRM) 2015
The Federation of European Neurosciences Societies (FENS) and the National Hellenic, Israeli and Serbian Neuroscience Societies are honoured to announce that the International FENS conference FENS Featured Regional Meeting (FFRM) will take place in Thessaloniki from October 7-10, 2015 at the “Ioannis Vellidis” congress centre. On a biennial basis, the FFRM enables interdisciplinary scientific interaction amongst leading neuroscientists and pioneering scientists of [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - March 2, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: External announcements Source Type: blogs
Interventionist Wreckage: Kosovo and Libya
Ted Galen Carpenter
Proving that hawks never seem to learn, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and the other usual suspects are advocating more substantial U.S. involvement in the civil wars convulsing such places as Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine. Before we head down that road again, we ought to insist that proponents of U.S. military crusades defend the results of their previous ventures. That exercise would cause all except the most reckless interventionists to hesitate.
It’s not merely the catastrophic outcomes of the Afghan and Iraq wars, which were pursued at enormous cost in both blood and treasure. The magnit...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 20, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
