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Source: Minding Our Elders - April 22, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
PhD Student position at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain)
PhD Student position at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.euINFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITION Position: PhD studentResearcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1- up to the point of PhD)Number of vacancies: 1Project: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Plan Nacional RTI2018 093547 B I00 (LANGCONN)Location: Spain> Donostia-San SebastianResearch Field: Neuroscience> Cognition and LanguageType of contract/Duration of Contract : Temporary> 4 yearsJob Stat...
Source: Talking Brains - April 16, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Corporate Taxes: Rates Down, Revenues Up
Chris EdwardsU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recentlycomplained about a“30-year race to the bottom on corporate tax rates,” and is pushing for a higher U.S. rate and a global minimum rate. Yellenwants to make sure that corporate taxes “raise sufficient revenue to invest in essential public goods and respond to crises.” EconomistGabriel Zucmanapproved of the proposed tax hike, saying corporations should “pay more in taxes, instead of them paying less and less. "Zucman ’s claim about “less and less” is incorrect when looking across the major economies in recent decades. TheNew York Times charts the OECD ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Digital Therapeutics, Megan & Me!
Anyone who follows me knows that I’ve been questioning whether digital therapeutics are real and more importantly whether the people building and trying to sell them are simply trying to replicate the American drug pricing model–patent, protect, prescribe & price gouge. So who better to have this conversation with than the person in charge of explaining and selling the notion of digital therapeutics to the world? Megan Coder is Executive Director of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance. She graciously and bravely agreed to talk to me. Who won the argument? You’ll have to watch to decide, but I found our ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 31, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Matthew Holt digital therapeutics dtx Megan Coder Source Type: blogs
Latin mottos translated
A puerile joke I’ve been making since schooldays when our motto was carpe diem is that it actually means “seize the fish”. Of course, it actually means “fish of the day” (see Garden, G. ISAHUC) and in a similar educational vein, a few more:
In loco parentis – Mum and Dad are coming by train after lockdown
Audio hostem – It’s my house, I get to choose what records to put on
Quid pro quo – The Italian branch of Poundland, just behind the Colloseum Bingo hall
Caveat emptor – we’ve run out of Spanish bubbly again
Status Quo – the same thing over and over a...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 25, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Here ’s What We Listen For When Deciding Whether A Speaker Is Lying Or Uncertain
By Emma Young
How do you know whether to trust what someone is telling you? There’s ongoing debate about which cues are reliable, and how good we are at recognising deception. But now a new paper in Nature Communications reveals that we reliably take a particular pattern of speech pitch, loudness and duration as indicating either that the person lying or that they’re unsure of what they’re saying — and that we do it without even being aware of what we’re tuning into.
In an initial study, Louise Goupil at Sorbonne University, France, and her team manipulated the pitch, loudness and duration of a series ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 24, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Language Lying Perception Source Type: blogs
Nanoparticles On My Mind
By KIM BELLARD
Nanoparticles are everywhere! By that I mean, of course, that there seems to be a lot of news about them lately, particularly in regard to health and healthcare. But, of course, literally they could be anywhere and everywhere, which helps account for their potential, and their potential danger.
Let’s start with one of the more startling developments: a team at the University of Miami’s College of Engineering, led by Professor Sakhrat Khizroev, believes it has figured out a way to use nanoparticles to “talk” to the brain without wires or implants. They use “a novel clas...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard nanoparticles Source Type: blogs
Test the Waters Family Exploration Kits
There is still time to snag a Test the Waters Kit for your library! All you have to do is sign up to be an NNLM member (and if you haven’t, it’s quick, easy and free to do!)
In partnership with Cornerstones of Science and the NIH All of Us Research Program, the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) is offering an exciting new citizen science resource to public libraries. The Test the Waters Family Exploration Kit is a fun, accessible, loanable kit which includes four family friendly activities, and all the instructions and materials needed (audio file guides are available in in Arabic, Chinese, En...
Source: BHIC - March 22, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: hollystevenson Tags: General Source Type: blogs
The Spanish Pension System: An Update in the Wake of the Pandemic - Banco de Espa ña Contribution to the Committee on the Monitoring and Assessment of the Toledo Pact Agreements
Pablo Hern ández de Cos, The Spanish Pension System: An Update in the Wake of the Pandemic - Banco de España Contribution to the Committee on the Monitoring and Assessment of the Toledo Pact Agreements, Banco de Espana Occasional Paper No.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 19, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
This Is How We Can End COVID In 6 Steps
There is frankly one question today on everybody’s mind: when will all this end? And although deep inside we all know this won’t really be over till it’s… over, we strive for a definite answer. Say, in June. The sad news is, the pandemic will be with us until we finally take individual responsibility. Instead of trying to avoid the jab, we should get ourselves vaccinated as soon as possible. Why? I’ll tell you in six simple, self-explanatory logical steps.
1. COVID-19 will end when the coronavirus becomes endemic
A virus becomes endemic when it has a constant presence within a population in a certain ar...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 25, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Healthcare ethical vaccination coronavirus lockdown vaccine flu hospitals Italy Spanish flu Source Type: blogs
This Is How We Can End COVID In 6 Logical Steps
There is frankly one question today on everybody’s mind: when will all this end? And although deep inside we all know this won’t really be over till it’s… over, we strive for a definite answer. Say, in June. The sad news is, the pandemic will be with us until we finally take individual responsibility. Instead of trying to avoid the jab, we should get ourselves vaccinated as soon as possible. Why? I’ll tell you in six simple, self-explanatory logical steps.
1. COVID-19 will end when the coronavirus becomes endemic
A virus becomes endemic when it has a constant presence within a population in a certain ar...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 25, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Healthcare ethical vaccination coronavirus lockdown vaccine flu hospitals Italy Spanish flu Source Type: blogs
The Trial of “Citizen Trump”
Gene HealyEven if some senators started totune out yesterday, the House impeachment managers got off to a very strong start in the second impeachment trial of (now‐ex) president Donald Trump. Their first‐day presentations were so compelling, in fact, that one Republican senator, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, briefly forgot the line of work he’s in, actually listened to the arguments, andpronounced himself convinced. At the end of January, Cassidy had voted for Sen. Rand Paul ’s motion to kill the proceedings on the grounds that you can’t try an ex‐president; on Tuesday, however, he switched to “yea”...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 12, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Gene Healy Source Type: blogs
High-Quality Hospital Care — Minus the Hospital
John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article.In a time of COVID, the current care models just can ’t remain in place. We need innovative ways to address the high cost of acute care. One solution that is taking a front seat is telemedicine. Telecare has accelerated from 3-4% of visits in January 2020 to 90% in April to a new normal of 20% in 2021. Cultural change has modified patient expectations for the care they can get at a distance, which can be more convenient, less likely to result in C...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - February 12, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
The COVID-19 Shock on the Labour Market: Poverty and Inequality Effects across Spanish Regions
Juan C. Palomino (University of Oxford), Juan Gabriel Rodriguez, Raquel Sebastian, The COVID-19 Shock on the Labour Market: Poverty and Inequality Effects across Spanish Regions, SSRN: We evaluate the distributional consequences of social distancing for the case of Spanish regions.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 12, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
