President Biden ’s Minimum Wage Proposal
Chris EdwardsAs part of his $1.9 trillion relief plan, President Joe Bidenproposes to double the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour.If enacted, the higher mandated wage would eliminate jobs for younger and less ‐skilled workers. In 2019,58 percent of minimum wage workers were age 24 or younger. Biden ’s websitesays that he wants to create jobs for young people to “reach full employment as fast as possible,” but his minimum wage plan would do the opposite. Young people need entry‐level jobs to start climbing the career ladder but raising the minimum wage would break the bottom steps.A m...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 29, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Strados RESP Monitors Lung Sounds, Now FDA Cleared
Strados Labs, a company based in Philadelphia, PA, but with R&D offices in Atlanta, GA, won FDA clearance to introduce its RESP system for monitoring lung sounds. The RESP device has already been employed in clinical trials to help monitor how various therapies, patient reports, and other vital signs correlate with changes in lung sounds. The same capabilities can now be utilized by clinicians to monitor their patients, and perhaps even to track what effect COVID-19 has on the lungs.
RESP attaches to the chest and much like a stethoscope listens for typical auscultation sounds, as well as coughs and wheezes. The...
Source: Medgadget - January 7, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Diagnostics Medicine Source Type: blogs
Canada Fiscal Record Not Supportive of Keynesian Theory
Chris EdwardsCongress is debating another aid package for the states and private sector. Further aid for the states is a bad idea. Aid for small businesses makes more sense, but a better approach would be for state governments to end mandated shutdowns which are starving businesses of revenues.Many economists are saying that more federal aid is needed to boost GDP. But, as notedhere, GDP shot up in the third quarter even as government spending fell.Canada ’s experience in the 1990s also does not support the Keynesian idea that higher government spending boosts growth. Canada cut spending in the mid‐1990s and its...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 14, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
BioAge Raises $90M and Prepares for Clinical Trials of Small Molecules to Slow Effects of Aging
The first wave of longevity industry companies to reach clinical trials and large funding rounds are those that focus on the well established methodology of small molecule development. Many are also platform companies that have developed approaches to speed up the expensive and time-consuming tasks of screening and designing small molecules. With the exception of the small molecule senolytics companies, these treatments presently tend to epitomize what the SENS Research Foundation folk would call "messing with metabolism," a poor alternative to actually targeting and fixing underlying causes of aging. This messing with met...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 7, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Governor of Vermont, Phil Scott
Chris EdwardsThe top grade in Cato ’s governorsreport this year went to Republican Chris Sununu of New Hampshire. He is a solid fiscal conservative and was just re‐elected by a 65 to 33 percent margin, even though the state went to Joe Biden over Donald Trump 53 to 46. New Hampshire is a unique state in the region, with smaller government andmore freedom than its neighbors.Next door, Vermont seems quite different. It is the land of Bernie Sanders. It has higher taxes, larger government, andless freedom. Yet Vermont is headed by a Republican governor who favors restrained budgets, low taxes, and leans moderate ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 18, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
USDA Once Again Tries to Regulate Small Farmers Out of Business
Mallory ReaderThe Department of Agriculture (USDA) is once again trying to interfere with farming practices in the name of consumer health.The USDA ’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) invited the public to comment on a plan to mandate the use of radio frequency identification tags on cattle, as opposed to the metal tags now in use. One reason for tagging cattle is to trace animals ’ movements, in order to then track diseased and at‐risk exposed animals. The agency believes that being able to identify these animals electronically might allow government veterinarians to better contain disease ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Mallory Reader Source Type: blogs
How to balance family and professional needs during the pandemic [PODCAST]
“The reality of being a medical practice owner is that we are small business owners and very vulnerable to the impact of COVID. Having previously worked in the telemedicine industry and because I am a psychiatrist, I initially felt that I was in a good position to adapt to this crisis – and this has […]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 - November 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sharon-m-batista" rel="tag" > Sharon M. Batista, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
The Office Of The Australian Information Commissioner Has Had A Busy Week Or Two.
For a quick review of what they do – here is the homepage link: https://www.oaic.gov.au/ In terms of what is going on we had 2 interesting reports. First this: Privacy Act review to examine privacy tort, direct action rights, and GDPR compliance The Attorney-General's Department will look at carve-outs, harmonisation with states an d other nations, and a right to erase for Australians. By Chris Duckett | October 30, 2020 -- 06:19 GMT (17:19 AEDT) | Topic: Security Australia's Attorney-General Christian Porter announced on Friday the terms of referenceand issues paper that his department will use as a basis for its review...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 4, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Some Other Ballot Measures To Watch
Walter OlsonVoters will face the usual wide array ofstate and local ballot measures tomorrow, and my colleagues have already done an excellent job reviewing many of the highlights. In particular, you should check out Chris Edwards ’s posts onincome,sales, andproperty tax measures, andwho contributes, as well as onmarijuana legalization measures under consideration in four states, Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota.Michael Tanner has looked at California measures related to poverty, including important votes on rent control andfreelance work.Amid a host of generally dispiriting propositions before San Fra...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Not Just Faxes
By KIM BELLARD
I missed it when it was first announced in Japan, but fortunately the U.S. mainstream media has finally picked up on the story, with articles in both The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal: Japan’s new Administrative Reform Minister Taro Kono has “declared war” on fax machines, among other paper-based traditions.
Wait, what? “Administrative Reform Minister?” The U.S., or at least the U.S. healthcare system, has to hear about this.
Mr. Kono is a well known Japanese politician, including stints as Defense Minister and Foreign Minister. He is thought...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech faxes Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Wanted: Program Director, Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences Branch
We’re recruiting for an accomplished scientist with interest and experience in sepsis, critical illness, and/or polytraumatic injury join the Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences (PPS) Branch of the Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry (PPBC). The successful applicant will be responsible for scientific and administrative management of a portfolio of research, career development, and training grants. Opportunities also exist for Small Business Innovation and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) grants.
The PPS Branch of PPBC supports both basic and clinical research. This ...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - October 19, 2020 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Job Announcements Source Type: blogs
Biden ’ s Nov 9th speech: “Don’t you force me to pass Medicare 4 All”
By MATTHEW HOLT
The new Supreme Court, in all likelihood including just nominated Justice Amy Coney Barrett, will be hearing the California v Texas suit against the ACA on November 10th, seven days after the election. The lower courts have already ruled the ACA unconstitutional. Some hopeful moderates among my Democratic friends seem to believe that the justices will show cool heads, and not throw out the ACA. But it’s worth remembering that in the NFIB vs. Sebelius decision which confirmed the legitimacy of most of the ACA back in 2011 all the conservative justices with the exception of John Roberts voted to ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Featured Health Policy Politics Repeal Replace ACA Biden California v Texas Obamacare Supreme Court Source Type: blogs
Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 151 | MDLive (not?) IPOing, DTx Platform for Schizophrenia, & more
We are forgetting about health tech, and celebrating Chicago-oo! Just kidding, today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess asks me about Truepill getting a 75M Series C after just closing their B, Sana Benefits getting $20.8M, and Decent getting $10M, both of which are in the space of health benefits & insurance for small business have raised funding, MDLive closing a $50M round for their Virtual Primary Care (but weren’t they going public?), Owl Insights getting $15M from Ascension and Blue Ventures, and Boehringer Ingelheim & Click Therapeutics working on a $500M deal together on a DTx platform for Schizophrenia patien...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zoya Khan Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt ascention blue ventures boehringer ingelheim Click Therapeutics decent md live owl insights sana benefits schizophrenia Truepill Source Type: blogs
Wanted: Program Director, Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences Branch
We’re recruiting for an accomplished scientist with interest and experience in total body responses to traumatic and other injuries, as well as sepsis, to join the Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences (PPS) Branch of the Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry (PPBC). The successful applicant will have responsibility for scientific and administrative management of a portfolio of research, career development, and training grants. Opportunities also exist for Small Business Innovation and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) grants.
The PPS Branch of PPBC supports both basic an...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - September 11, 2020 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Job Announcements Source Type: blogs
7 tips to balance family and professional needs during the pandemic
The reality of being a medical practice owner is that we are small business owners and very vulnerable to the impact of COVID. Having previously worked in the telemedicine industry and because I am a psychiatrist, I initially felt that I was in a good position to adapt to this crisis– and this has been […]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 - August 30, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sharon-m-batista" rel="tag" > Sharon M. Batista, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
