Any and All Trend Projection Models Showing Slow, Incremental Future Increases in Longevity are Simply Wrong
This open access paper is an example of a model of future life expectancy that projects existing trends, with a little variation in here and there based on whether or not public health measures related to smoking and diet prove to be more successful or less successful. It predicts an average global increase in life expectancy of 4 to 5 years by 2040. In recent years I would have said that this is probably incorrect. I think we are at the point now in the development of rejuvenation therapies at which I can say that it is definitely incorrect. Any study that fails to consider progress in the treatment of aging as a medical ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 18, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
A Need for Gender-Based Violence Prevention Programs in Somalia
Humanitarian emergencies increase the risk of gender-based violence, or violence that occurs based on socially ascribed gender differences. Recently our team at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing published a study on gender-based violence in Somalia, a country that has faced decades of war and natural disasters that have resulted in massive population displacements. Somalia’s Humanitarian
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - August 13, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: New Domestic violence gender based violence Global health humanitarian emergency Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 245
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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 245
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 20, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mark Corden Tags: Frivolous Friday Five George Otto Gey Glanzmann's thrombasthaenia Hela cells Henrietta Lacks NEJM new england journal of medicine Sildenafil smallpox viagra Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 245
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 245
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 20, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mark Corden Tags: Frivolous Friday Five George Otto Gey Glanzmann's thrombasthaenia Hela cells Henrietta Lacks NEJM new england journal of medicine Sildenafil smallpox viagra Source Type: blogs
Arms Sales: Pouring Gas on the Fires of Conflict
Do arms sales cause war? Or do wars cause arms sales? Critics of arms salesoften argue that selling weapons abroad fuels conflict. And indeed, one can point to one or more sides using American weapons in many recent conflicts including Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Skeptics argue,on the other hand, that weapons don ’t start the fire and that conflicts would arise whether or arms exporters like the United States sell weapons abroad.The debate has important implications for foreign policy. If selling or transferring weapons abroad makes conflict more likely, or intensifies conflicts already in process, then the United States sho...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 2, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall Source Type: blogs
Clashing Generations
I ’ve written before about the worrisome gap between the American people and foreign policy elites (see e.g.here andhere). Whereas most Americans believe that the U.S. military exists chiefly to defend the United States andits economic and security interests, the intelligentsia is committed to a broader set of objectives, including defending the security of others, shaping the international system, and advancing the cause of democracy and human rights. These slightly differing impulses often worked hand in hand. A large and active U.S. military that was focused mostly on U.S. security and prosperity typically helped othe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 28, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
Government Claims It Has “Extensive” Analysis Backing the Travel Ban—It’s Not True
In justifying President Trump ’s travel ban to the Supreme Court last month, his attorneys repeatedlyreferenced a confidential report. They told the Court that this “extensive” analysis of “every country in the world” resulted from a “worldwide multi-agency review” and proves that the president did not act with religious animus. Yet they refuse to release it, and the information that they have released about it refutes their claim that it was extens ive. In fact, it was far from rigorous.In response toa lawsuit by the Brennan Center for Justice in New York, the governmentdisclosed that its final secret report...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 24, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
U.S. Approves Far Fewer Muslim Refugees, Immigrants, & Travelers
ConclusionPresident Trump appears to be fulfilling his campaign promise.
The United States is accepting the fewest Muslim refugees in
decades, and immigration from the Muslim world has received an
unprecedented cut under his administration. On the campaign trail,
President Trump assured voters that the Muslim ban would be a “temporary ban.” In the coming months, we will find out how
temporary these policies discouraging Muslim immigration turn out
to be. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 23, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Contrary to Theresa May ’s Comments, the West Is Interfering in Syria’s Civil War
Shortly after the air and missile strikes that U.S., British and French forces launched against the Syrian government ’s alleged chemical weapons sites, British Prime Minister Theresa Mayinsisted that the goal simply was to degrade the ability of Bashar-al Assad ’s regime to use such weapons in the future and to bolster the longstanding international taboo. “These strikes are about deterring the barbaric use of chemical weapons in Syria and beyond.” May stressed: “This was not about interfering in a civil war. And it was not about regime change.”Her comment simply lacks credibility. There is no such thing as ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 19, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Profiles of Every Terrorism Vetting Failure in the Last 30 Years
In my newpolicy analysis released today, I identify 65 vetting failures where the visa vetting system allowed a foreign-born person to enter the United States as an adult or older teenager when they had already radicalized —80 percent occurred before 9/11. Just 13 vetting failures have occurred since 9/11, and only one—the last one (Tashfeen Malik)—resulted in any deaths in the United States. That’s one vetting failure for every 29 million visa or status approvals, and one deadly failure for every 379 million visa or status approvals from 2002 to 2016.As I note, 9/11 is reasonable point of analysis because after th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Increased Civilian Casualties and a Disturbing Question from President Trump
Back in 2015, candidate Donald Trump caused a stir when hepublicly advocated murdering the families of terrorists. At the time, this was widely condemned for its immoral cruelty and as a violation of the laws of war. Richard D. Rosen, director of the Center for Military Law and Policy at the Texas Tech University School of Law,described “a policy of intentionally and directly targeting the families of terrorists” as “a war crime.” To the relief of many, theNew York Times reported in March 2016 that Trump had “reversed course on his vow to kill the families of terrorists…saying he now recognized that such...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 6, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
Counterinsurgency Math Revisited
When does 32,200 – 60,000 = 109,000? That seemingly inaccurate equation represents theestimated number of Islamist-inspiredterrorists when the war on terror began, how many the U.S.has killed since 2015, and the number thatfight today. And it begs the question of just how can the terror ranks grow so fast when they ’re being depleted so rapidly.As early as 2003, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hinted at the potential mathematical problem when he asked, “Are we capturing, killing, or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and dep...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 2, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall, Erik Goepner Source Type: blogs
All I Want for Christmas is the Travel Ban to End
On December 4, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Courtallowed thethird version of the President ’s travel ban, which limits the entry of citizens fromeight countries, to go into effect. The White House claimed the Supreme Court decision as a victory, with spokesman Hogan Gidleysaying, “The proclamation is lawful and essential to protecting our homeland. We look forward to presenting a fuller defense of the proclamation as the pending cases work their way through the courts.”While thedomestic implications of the Supreme Court ’s decision will unfold in the next few weeks, the foreign policy implications will be widespread, and...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 14, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Sahar Khan Source Type: blogs
Muslim Ban? Fewer Muslim Refugees, Immigrants, and Travelers Enter U.S. in 2017
During his campaign, President Trumppromised to ban all Muslims outright until he could figure out “what is going on.” Helater explained that this idea had developed into several policies that would have the same effect. Since his inauguration, Trump has begun to implement them —they includeslashing the refugee program,banning all immigration and travelers from several majority Muslim countries, andimposing new burdens on all visa applicants as part of “extreme vetting” initiatives. So far, these policies appear to have “worked,” strongly reducing Muslim immigration and travel to the United States.Muslim refu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 12, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
All I Want for Christmas …Is Information about U.S. Military Deployments
2017 has been a year of massive expansion for the Global War on Terror, but you could be forgiven for not noticing. In addition to the media focus on the ongoing chaos in the Trump White House, the Pentagon has consistently avoided disclosing where and who America ’s armed forces are engaged in fighting until forced to do so.Take Syria, where the Pentagon long claimed that there wereonly 500 boots on the ground, even though anecdotal accounts suggested a much higher total. When Maj. General James Jarrardaccidentally admitted to reporters at a press conference in October that the number was closer to 4000, his statement w...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 11, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Emma Ashford Source Type: blogs
