Biden ’s Asia Dilemma: Allies and North Korea Diplomacy
Eric GomezThe Biden administration is working quickly to make good on its rhetoric about makingAmerica ’s alliance relationships great again. East Asia has been the primary theater for alliance repair work thus far. The new administration moved quickly to reach military cost ‐sharing agreements withSouth Korea andJapan, smoothing over a prominentsource of friction left by the Trump administration.Biden has made it clear that he wants the United States and its allies to move together when solving common problems, but this ideal is starting to run up against an inconvenient truth of divergent priorities in friend...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
Grateful People Are More Likely To Obey Commands To Commit Ethically Dubious Acts
By Emma Young
Gratitude is widely regarded as a positive emotion. When we feel grateful, we are more helpful, generous and fair to others — findings that were supported by a 2017 meta-analysis, which concluded that gratitude is important for building relationships. But now a new study in Emotion suggests that gratitude has a dark side. Specifically, people who felt more grateful were more willing to accede to an instruction to prepare as many worms as possible for grinding to their death. As Eddie M. W. Tong at the National University of Singapore and his colleagues write: “The findings suggest that gratitude can m...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Morality Social Source Type: blogs
For The Good of Kids and Teachers, Unions Should Stop Blocking School Choice
Neal McCluskeyIn March, at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns, the CDCreported: “In other countries, those places who closed school (e.g., Hong Kong) have not had more success in reducing spread than those that did not (e.g., Singapore).” Today, that the default for schools should be in‐person instruction, especially for younger students, has beenreinforcedmyriadtimes. Add to this the release of COVID vaccines, and many jurisdictionsprioritizing teachers to receive them, and you would expect public schools across the nation to be welcoming kids back in droves.Not so fast. In Chicago, under the direction of th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 26, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
When Will COVID-19 Be Over – 2021 Update
2020 has brought previously unseen challenges upon humankind. A virus that, due to globalisation, spread at an unprecedented speed, stormed the entire planet and there is only one thing that can stop it as it is now: a vaccine. And as I wrote in The Medical Futurist vaccine pledge, if you worry about the long-term consequences (which no data indicate for now after having tested the vaccine on tens of thousands of people and vaccinating already millions), you might want to wait out. But then we’ll be in lockdown for years.
Over the past year several lockdowns have taken place. We adopted new habits, learned and worked ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 26, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Telemedicine & Smartphones ptsd healthcare systems data privacy tracking coronavirus covid19 immunity passport vaccine research lockdown Source Type: blogs
When Will Coronavirus Be Over – 2021 Update
2020 has brought previously unseen challenges upon humankind. A virus that, due to globalisation, spread at an unprecedented speed, stormed the entire planet and there is only one thing that can stop it as it is now: a vaccine. And as I wrote in The Medical Futurist vaccine pledge, if you worry about the long-term consequences (which no data indicate for now after having tested the vaccine on tens of thousands of people and vaccinating already millions), you might want to wait out. But then we’ll be in lockdown for years.
Over the past year several lockdowns have taken place. We adopted new habits, learned and worked ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 26, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Telemedicine & Smartphones ptsd healthcare systems data privacy tracking coronavirus covid19 immunity passport vaccine research lockdown Source Type: blogs
Polres Kuansing Ringkus Bandar Judi Sie Jie Tiga Negara
Di berbagai wilayah di Indonesia ternyata masih banyak oknum yang melancarkan perjudian padahal sudah jelas bahwa Negara Indonesia melarang keras adanya segala jenis judi. Sebab itulah di seluruh wilayah Tanah Air, aparat kepolisian pun masih terus menggencarkan penyisiran demi menemukan pelaku-pelaku perjudian yang mungkin belum sempat tertangkap. Di tahun yang baru ini saja sudah bnyak kasus judi yang berhasil diungkap oleh polisi.
Salah satu yang berhasil dibongkar oleh aparat kepolisian adalah perjudian yang dilakukan di Riau. Belum lama ini, Riau menjadi salah satu tempat yang sukses diungkap oleh polisi karena telah ...
Source: Nursing Comments - January 24, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: nursingcomments Tags: Berita Source Type: blogs
Episode 23: Whose Psychology Is It Anyway? Making Psychological Research More Representative
This is Episode 23 of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest. Download here.
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In this episode, Emily Reynolds, staff writer at Research Digest, explores modern psychology’s relationship with race and representation. It’s well-known that psychology has a generalisability problem, with studies overwhelmingly using so-called “WEIRD” participants: those who are Western and educated and from industrialised, rich and democratic societies. But how does that shape the assumptions we make ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 21, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Methods Podcast Source Type: blogs
How To Be A Good Negotiator, According To Psychology
In this study, two people did the negotiating. But what if you used an Artificial Intelligence agent to do your negotiating — a task that AI agents, or bots, are tipped to take over? This does affect our negotiation strategies, according to a recent study in the US. Among other things, the team found that less experienced negotiators are more likely to be deceitful if they assign an AI agent to do their dirty work for them.
What about negotiating at home?
If you don’t like a job offer, or a bid for your house, you don’t have to take it. But if you’re in a relationship, and want to stay in it, you will have to...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Feature Occupational Social Source Type: blogs
MFine Raises $16m From New & Existing Investors Led by Heritas Capital as Adoption of Digital Health Soars in India Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic
India’s leading Digital Health startup MFine has raised $16m in a new funding round led by Heritas Capital with participation from Singapore-based family office of Y’S Investment Pte Ltd. Existing MFine investors including SBI Investment, SBI Ven Capital, BEENEXT and Alteria Capital have also followed-on in the round. The oversubscribed round wraps up a strong […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 18, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Digital Health Digital Health Investment Health IT Investment Heritas Capital India Health IT MFine Source Type: blogs
Mitra clip for Rheumatic mitral regurgitation: A break through Indication
Mitra clip is a small metal device that is delivered percutaneously, to clip the incompletely coapting (closing) mitral valve. It was first introduced to treat degenerative mitral regurgitation. It is an interventional imitation of the famous edge to edge Alfieri stitch repair.This procedure in fact converts the single mitral valve orifice into two. In the process, curtails the regurgitation jet orifice significantly. Though the technique looks nice and simple to hear, lots of per and post-procedure issues need refinement. Conceptually it is ideal in primary disorders of the mitral valve. (Read EVEREST 2 criteria for optim...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 5, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: MVPS valvular heart disease alfieri repair mitral valve coapt mitra-fr everest trials mitra clip mitra clip for rheumatic mitral regurgitation Source Type: blogs
The vaccines brought a feeling of hope, but the distribution reality is quickly shattering that
I am angry and frustrated, and these feelings mixed with exasperation have led me to write this. In the U.S., we failed to contain the virus like New Zealand; we failed to mitigate it like Singapore; we failed to test for it like South Korea. We maybe did pretty well with treatment, but with the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 3, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/zoe-mcmillen" rel="tag" > Zo ë McMillen, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Medgadget ’s Best Medical Technologies of 2020
In conclusion, 2020 will certainly be remembered for a world stopped by an pandemic. It will also stand out as a time when people came together to innovate, adapt, and improve the world around them. We wish you all a happy New Year and look forward to better times ahead, together.
Flashbacks: Medgadget’s Best Medical Technologies of 2019; 2018; 2017; 2016; 2015 (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - December 30, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Why There ’ s Hope In 2021
ALMOST THEREWe’re finally about to leave this dreadful 2020 behind! This year was stacked with natural and man-made disasters, economic and mental collapse, bleeding healthcare and the untimely and unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands. No wonder we are all waiting for the year to end and find some peace of mind that it will all be over soon – and that 2021 will be better.
And hope, indeed, is what we have. Because throughout 2020, amazing advances have given hope that rose in science, technology, digital health, leadership and in basic human care and kindness. Anti-racist books topping the lists. More people ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 3, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Forecast Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy science fake news politics 2020 leadership jumanji lockdown vaccine hope 2021 pfizer BioNTech Source Type: blogs
Does This Sound Rather Like A Government Agency We All Know Well?
This appeared last week: Australian government develops its own metrics and ranks NBN highly Department of Communications has chosen to deny reality and impose a view of its own. By Chris Duckett | November 27, 2020 -- 03:33 GMT (14:33 AEDT) | Topic: Networking A year after NBN decided it didn't like the idea of speed testsas a broadband measurement, the viewpoint has spilled over to the Bureau of Communications, Arts and Regional Research (BCARR). In the case of the BCARR, it has paid PricewaterhouseCoopers to develop metrics that are more suitable to it. On the hit list was tossing out perennial chart-topperslike South K...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - December 3, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
It ’s still true: Not all the news about COVID-19 is bad
I thought the pandemic would be over by now. And I’m not alone; there were sophisticated models predicting a dramatic drop in the number of infections by the summer. And while there was understandable worry about the second wave, re-infection, and the coming flu season, there was good reason to believe we’d have the worst of the first wave well behind us.
Now, that all seems like wishful thinking. Here we are, over nine months into the pandemic, with more than 224,000 deaths, and more than 70,000 new cases and 800 deaths every day in this country as of late October. There are new hot spots popping up in the US and all ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 4, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Coronavirus and COVID-19 Health Infectious diseases Source Type: blogs
