Government Ownership Sucks
TheWall Street Journaltoday profiles South Africa ’s electric power company, Eskom. What a mess—something we have seen many times with government-owned businesses. Eskom has a bloated workforce, provides terrible service, fails to maintain its facilities, and is transmitting economic damage in every direction. It has rotten management and appar ently corrupt dealings with politicians.Three decades afterMargaret Thatcher this should not be happening. Governments should not own businesses that can earn revenues in the marketplace. For citizens, there is no advantage to government ownership —there is only high costs, de...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 15, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
University of Witzwatersrand and Xsens Model The Biomechanics of a Paralympian
Biomechanics is complex. The body moves in a three-dimensional space, pulling and rotating. We see athletes perform stunning movement combinations on TV in a variety of sports. A basketball player pivots, fades back, and fires a three-pointer. A badminton player jumps, twists, and snaps their arm and racket like a whip onto a shuttlecock. A shot putter compresses, extends, and explodes out a cannonball from their arm.
Such complexity is hard to break down into its important parts simply by watching the action. At the highest levels of sport, a few extra degrees of leg flexion during a jump may give an athlete just enough o...
Source: Medgadget - February 6, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Exclusive Informatics Neurology Rehab Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
University of Witwatersrand and Xsens Model The Biomechanics of a Paralympian
Biomechanics is complex. The body moves in a three-dimensional space, pulling and rotating. We see athletes perform stunning movement combinations on TV in a variety of sports. A basketball player pivots, fades back, and fires a three-pointer. A badminton player jumps, twists, and snaps their arm and racket like a whip onto a shuttlecock. A shot putter compresses, extends, and explodes out a cannonball from their arm.
Such complexity is hard to break down into its important parts simply by watching the action. At the highest levels of sport, a few extra degrees of leg flexion during a jump may give an athlete just enough o...
Source: Medgadget - February 6, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Exclusive Informatics Neurology Rehab Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
How the ultra-rich deal with stress
From the Guardian: Burned-out billionaires are taking extended multimillion-dollar 'sabbaticals' to recharge:A 40-year-old tech CEO, fresh off selling his multimillion-dollar business, embarked on an extended world tour, visited 66 countries over two years via private jet. The trip included learning to hunt with a bow and arrow with the San people in the Kalahari Desert and filming a documentary in South Africa – and it cost "well into the seven figures.""It could be a couple of million dollars to take your family around the world with a teacher in tow."These wealthy clients are looking for an escape, and some want that ...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - January 21, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Stress Source Type: blogs
Bringing Emergency Medicine to Eswatini
BY ADERONKE SUSAN AKAPO, DO; KATHLEEN ANNE ROCCO, MD; EDWARD KAKISH, DO; & KRIS BRICKMAN, MDEswatini, known as Swaziland until April 2018, is a small South African country approximately the size of New Jersey. It has 1.3 million people, and is bordered by South Africa and Mozambique.The country primarily comprises rural tribal areas with two major cities, Manzini and Mbabane, in the central portion of the country. Eswatini holds the unfortunate distinction of having the highest HIV rate in the world—approximately 26 percent of its population. Emergency medicine within this small country is clearly in its developme...
Source: Going Global - December 21, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
More Support for Universal Savings Accounts
Ryan Bourne and Iproposed that America adopt a Canadian-British innovation to encourage more personal savings. Those nations created accounts that are like supercharged Roth IRAs, and which have revolutionized savings for families at all income levels.Republicans in Congress adopted the idea and included USAs in their Tax Reform 2.0 package, which passed the House in September. Individuals would deposit after-tax funds in the accounts, and then the earnings would grow tax-free and could be withdrawn at any time for any reason with no taxes or penalties. USAs would allow Americans to save without the restrictions and comp...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 4, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
High Lateral STEMI
High lateral STEMI (ST elevation myocardial infarction). Localised leads I and aVL, reciprocal ST depression and T wave inversion inferior leads.
The post High Lateral STEMI appeared first on Life in the Fast Lane. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 19, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: ECG Diagnosis ECG Library High lateral Lateral STEMI South African Flag Sign Source Type: blogs
Medical Professionals Put The Ask Me About Digital Badge Into Action Worldwide
70, 22, 380, 6 – Can you guess what these figures stand for? No, unfortunately, we have no clue about how to win the lottery. These are our magic numbers when it comes to the Ask Me About Digital campaign. 70 medical professionals asked The Medical Futurist team to send out 380 badges and/or pins to 22 countries worldwide in the course of the last 6 months. That’s what we call a boost to the patient-doctor communication!
What’s the Ask Me About Digital campaign all about?
We cannot believe how time flies. We launched the Ask Me About Digital campaign in June 2018 with the goal to bridge a communication gap betwee...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 17, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: From Chance to Choice Medical Professionals Policy Makers Ask Me About Digital badge campaign digital health doctor-patient doctor-patient relationship health communication Source Type: blogs
A Conversation About the Dangers of Overhydration with Professor Timothy Noakes
By SAURABH JHA MD
Professor Timothy Noakes, a South African exercise scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town who has run over 70 ultramarathons, speaks to me about the dangers of overhydration in endurance sports.
Listen to our conversation at Radiology Firing Line Podcast.
Saurabh Jha is a contributing editor to THCB and host of Radiology Firing Line Podcast of the Journal of American College of Radiology, sponsored by Healthcare Administrative Partner (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Physicians Uncategorized exercise hydration marathons overhydration Radiology Firing Line running Saurabh Jha spots Water water intoxication Source Type: blogs
University of Missouri Research Reactor Now Supplying Iodine-131 for Thyroid Treatment
Medical radioisotopes are widely used in cancer treatment, but their production has been hampered to the point that obtaining them has become a challenge. The lack of Technetium-99m is probably the most widely known, but there’s also a shortage of Iodine-131 (I-131), a radioisotope commonly used for diagnosing and treating thyroid conditions because the thyroid absorbs iodine naturally.
Things are now looking up as the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR), a 10 megawatt reactor, has just produced the first commercial batch of I-131. International Isotopes, Inc. is the buyer and distributor. This is t...
Source: Medgadget - November 12, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Nuclear Medicine Oncology Public Health Radiation Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
International Healthcare: Standards, Patients, and Personal Experiences – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Jessica Maxine Selby (@JessMSelby) on the topic of “International Healthcare: Standards, Patients, and Personal Experiences“.
Jess Maxine Selby considers herself a Global Citizen. Living in 4 countries over 3 continents and traveling to over 26 countries in 26 years, this accident-prone marketer has personally experienced what many countries healthcare system has to offer. Due to her passion for community service and a two-week adventure with Global M...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 6, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITsm Topics Info World International Healthcare Medicasoft Source Type: blogs
Trump Should Warn South Africa on Land Expropriations
According topress reports, South Africa ’s government has begun expropriating privately-owned farmland without financial compensation, thereby ignoring the post-apartheid political settlement, which allows for land redistribution in the country on a “willing buyer, willing seller” basis.Eighteen years ago, Zimbabwe embraced a similar policy. As a consequence, South Africa ’s northern neighbor’s economy collapsed and the country descended into penury and political violence. This scenario is likely to repeat itself in South Africa. An attack on property rights will result in the destruction of South Africa’s farm...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 20, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Marian L. Tupy Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 506
Answer: Hard tick, Hyalommasp.As many of you noted, this is one of the " Old World " ticks found in many parts of North Africa, South Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.Here are a few important facts about this tick :They are one of the most medically important ticks in the Old World. Important species includeHyalomma marginatum(MediterraneanHyalomma), H. trucantum, H. asiaticum, H. excavatum, H. aegyptium, H. scupense andH. rufipes. They are vectors for several important disease agents, including Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, several Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma phagoc...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - August 12, 2018 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Doctors need to lead the way on divestment from fossil fuels
In the recent weeks we’ve seen frequent headlines alerting people around the country to dangerous heat waves. Physicians and nurses see these headlines and the human results of the heatwaves in the form of heat illness, people burdened with lung ailments and suffering from deteriorating air quality, and a range of individual harms brought on by wildfires and torrential downpours. Current trends in extreme temperatures are alarming and clearly linked to climate change.
Amid the headlines and the spreading realization that something is different, one bold step that was taken by doctors to reverse the trend lines of c...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 31, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mona-sarfaty" rel="tag" > Mona Sarfaty, MD, MPH < /a > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs
