The Democrats' Search for a New Foreign Policy
A. Trevor Thrall andJordan CohenCato will be hosting a panel discussion on January 28,The Future of Progressive Foreign Policy: 2020 and Beyond, featuringKate Kizer from Win Without War, Loren DeJonge Schulman from the Center for a New American Security,Dan Nexon from Georgetown University,Adam Mount from the Federation of American Scientists, andMena Ayazi from the Alliance for Peacebuilding.To provide some broad perspective for the discussion, we are sharing a slightly updated version of an article wepublished in the November/December issue of the German magazine,Internationale Politik. In it we use speeches and campaign...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 16, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall, Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Human Freedom Waning in Many Countries
This article originally appeared on theFraser Forum on January 2, 2020. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Tanja Por čnik Source Type: blogs
Body Sensors Made of Magical Self-Healing Threads
A team of scientists in South Korea has developed a remarkable new body sensor technology that consists of flexible threads that can heal on their own. The fabric-like threads, which are made of carbon fiber electrodes coated with a citric acid-based polymer, can measure electrolyte concentrations within sweat.
The team used their material, which after being broken rejoins and grows together like something out of science fiction, to make a sweat monitoring patch attached to a headband. It can measure potassium and sodium ions with impressive accuracy and the soft sensing component, which is what rubs against the skin, c...
Source: Medgadget - January 6, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Super-resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy to Find Clogged Blood Vessels
Researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea have developed a new photoacoustic imaging system that can visualize microvasculature without a contrast agent. The new system is 500 times faster than conventional photoacoustic imaging, and features a spatial resolution enhanced by 2.5 times. This system can one day help improve detection and therapy for strokes and heart attacks by imaging vasculature and identifying clotted or burst vessels.
Photoacoustic microscopy is a research tool being used ever more to image anatomy and molecular information in humans and animals. Conventional systems,...
Source: Medgadget - December 19, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Siavash Parkhideh Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
RSNA 2019 AI Round-Up
Shah Islam
Hugh Harvey
By HUGH HARVEY, MBBS and SHAH ISLAM, MBBS
AI in medical imaging entered the consciousness of radiologists just a few years ago, notably peaking in 2016 when Geoffrey Hinton declared radiologists’ time was up, swiftly followed by the first AI startups booking exhibiting booths at RSNA. Three years on, the sheer number and scale of AI-focussed offerings has gathered significant pace, so much so that this year a decision was made by the RSNA organising committee to move the ever-growing AI showcase to a new space located in the lower level of the North Hall. In some ways it made sense to offe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech Start-Ups AI Hugh Harvey Radiology RSNA RSNA 2019 RSNA19 Shah Islam Source Type: blogs
Making an Offer South Korea Can't Accept
Eric GomezLast year, the United States asked South Korea for a hefty, 50 percent increase in financial support to cover some of the costs of basing 28,000 troops on South Korean territory. American and Korean negotiators eventually settled on a $925 million, one-year deal that marked an 8.2 percent increase from the previous year. President Trump, evidently dissatisfied by this sum, upped the ante this year and is demanding$5 billion, a 500 percent increase, in the current round of cost-sharing talks.What makes Trump ’s $5 billion shakedown especially vexing is the fact that South Korea has been a very good ally when it ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 6, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
South Korea Should Consider Sticking with Intelligence-Sharing Pact with Japan
Amid the downturn in South Korea ' s relations with Japan this summer, Seoul gave three months ' notice of its intent to withdraw from the two countries ' direct intelligence-sharing arrangement. But it is not too late for the Moon administration to reverse course. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 4, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Scott W. Harold Source Type: blogs
3D Printed Cells and Bioinks for Making Implantable Blood Vessels
Researchers based in South Korea and Hong Kong have developed a method to create biomimetic blood vessels by directly 3D printing vascular cells and bioinks containing collagen and vascular tissue extracellular matrix components. The resulting constructs closely mimic natural blood vessels, suggesting that such techniques could pave the way for custom vascular grafts to treat various cardiovascular diseases.
Vascular grafts typically involve removing a healthy blood vessel and implanting it elsewhere to restore blood flow or replace a diseased vessel. However, suitable vessels are not always available, and even if they ...
Source: Medgadget - October 25, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Materials News Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Why Is an Energy Powerhouse Importing Russian LNG?
Colin GrabowIn the coming days a Spanish-flagged ship, theCatalunya Spirit,will deliver a shipment of Russia-originated liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Puerto Rico. Bizarrely, the United States —aleading exporter of LNG—is nonetheless importing it from a geopolitical rival. And this isn’t a first. Last year a supply of Russian LNGarrived in Boston amidst a spike in demand to fight off the winter cold.So what gives?Basically, the Jones Act. This 1920 law mandates that vessels transporting cargo within the United States must be U.S.-registered, at least 75 percent U.S.-owned, at least 75 percent U.S.-crewed, and U.S.-b...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 23, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Crying Or Kneeling Can Help You Make A Public Apology — But Don’t Expect Faster Forgiveness
This study, which involved 207 American and 190 Korean participants, found that crying had very similar effects to those found for kneeling: participants’ levels of forgiveness were unaffected when the president was portrayed as crying, but they did view her more favourably and perceive her as feeling more remorse. However, this was only the case for the Americans: the Koreans were unmoved by the tears. Exactly why there should be this difference is not clear.
Next, the team turned to real-world transgression and public apologies in which an individual (rather than a group) was at the centre of a scandal. These c...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: leadership Political Social Source Type: blogs
Breathtaking: The Future Of Respiratory Care And Pulmonology
Smoke-measuring smart shirts, breath sound analyzing
algorithms, and smart inhalers pave the way of pulmonology and respiratory care
into the future. As the number of patients suffering from asthma, COPD, or lung
cancer due to rising air pollution and steady smoker-levels will unfortunately
not decrease any time soon, we looked around what technology can do to help
both patients and caregivers. The results are breathtaking.
Attacks of
breathlessness are too common
The diseases which pulmonologists and respiratory care
specialists attempt to fight are among the most common conditions in the modern
world – and the n...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers AI asthma cancer cancer treatment care COPD diagnostics inhaler lung lung cancer management medical specialty pulmonology respiratory respiratory care Source Type: blogs
South Korea – Japan Tensions Complicate U.S. Efforts to Leverage Allies in Competition with China
The rapid deterioration of ties between South Korea and Japan not only undercuts America ' s Indo-Pacific strategy, it also increases the risks to U.S. allies and partners in the region. Just how consequential is the growing South Korea – Japan tension for U.S. strategy and what is Washington doing to address the issue? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 16, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Scott W. Harold Source Type: blogs
Today ’s Hyper-Partisanship Would Have Torpedoed Nixon’s China Initiative
Ted Galen CarpenterMy new article in the September-October issue of theAmerican Conservative ponders whether President Richard Nixon could have pursued his diplomatic initiative to normalize relations with the People ’s Republic of China (PRC) if today’s extreme partisanship in foreign policy had existed then. The shrill partisan criticism directed against President Trump’s attempt to establish a less confrontational relationship with North Korea suggests that that the answer is “no.”Nixon ’s 1972 trip to China marked the abandonment of the U.S. campaign to isolate and demonize the PRC.His conciliatory effort d...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 16, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Magnetically Controlled Microbots for Drug Delivery and Hyperthermia Therapy in Cancer
Researchers in Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea have developed biodegradable microrobots that can be magnetically controlled to deliver drugs and provide hyperthermia treatment at the site of a tumor.
This latest research effort attempts to provide a delivery option for two different therapy pypes by creating biodegradable microrobots that can be activated when they are in the vicinity of a tumor. The microrobots consist of a biodegradable polymer loaded with magnetic nanoparticles and an encapsulated chemotherapeutic drug.
Chemotherapy is currently plagued by serious side-effects, s...
Source: Medgadget - September 9, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
The Trump Administration Misses the Point Again about Burden-Sharing
President Trump and his advisers are beating the drums again about the need for greater burden-sharing by U.S. allies. In early August, Trump demanded that South Koreans pay “substantially more” than the current $990 million a year for defraying the costs of U.S. troops defending their country from North Korea. Just days later, Richard Grenell, the U.S. Ambassador to Germanyblasted that country ’s reluctance to spend more on defense and its continued reliance on U.S. troops for protection. “It is offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayers continue to pay for more than 50,000 Americans in Germany but the Germans ge...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 3, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
