Character – “Caught” Or “Taught”?
By Emma Young
How do you measure the success of a child’s education? Test results are one thing, and according to a recent global survey, British children have risen in the league tables for both maths and reading. However, these same teens reported among the lowest levels of life satisfaction. They may be performing well academically, but they’re not thriving.
This isn’t a problem only in the UK, of course. At a recent conference that I attended, organised by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, research psychologists, education specialists, economists and philosophers from around the world met to discuss how t...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Educational Feature Morality Source Type: blogs
Alcohol Use Disorder in the API Community
Asian-American Pacific Islanders, also known as the API Community, are one of the fastest-growing minority groups in America. Due to model minority stereotypes and a lack of empirical data, the API community has been thought to have lower than expected rates of substance use disorders and behavioral addictions. However, alcohol use disorder in the API Community still exists, and it presents its own set of unique issues compared to other ethnicities and communities. These can include specific risk factors and barriers to treatment that other groups do not face.
What is the API Community?
In 1968, the term “Asian Amer...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - January 24, 2020 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Alcohol Alcohol Rehab Information Alcoholism Detox Resources for Alcohol and Drugs/Opiates alcohol abuse alcohol dependence alcohol detox alcohol treatment alcohol treatment center alcohol treatment facility alcohol use Alcoholics An Source Type: blogs
Sri Lanka's Easter Attacks: Dismantling Myths to Prevent the Next Attack
On Easter Sunday, suicide bombers hit six locations across Sri Lanka, killing and wounding hundreds of people. Even before ISIS claimed responsibility, there was no obvious connection to the quarter-century of violence that afflicted the nation until 2009. It is worth dismantling a few myths that might prevent better preparation for similar attacks in the future. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - May 5, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Jonah Blank Source Type: blogs
Ethics and Society Newsfeed – May 2, 2019
Politics Guatemalan Teen Falls Ill, Dies After Transfer to U.S. Border Shelter “The boy was the third migrant child to die in federal custody in the past five months, as a soaring number of Central American families and unaccompanied minors have been trying to enter the United States via the southern border. Advocates for immigrants […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 3, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Ethics and Society Tags: Health Care Informed Consent AI big data Brain Death catholicism Contemporary Ethical Issues Donald Trump facebook immigration In the News measles Newsfeed Sex Abuse Sri Lanka syndicated William Barr Women of Color Source Type: blogs
Measles: Correlation of Vaccine Uptake with Disease Rates
The following is a country-by-country analysis of measles reporting trends vs. vaccine uptake. For purposes of consistency, incidence data and population statistics used to calculate rates per 100,000 will be limited to those published by the World Health Organization (WHO). Resultant graphs were generated by Gideon and abstracted from the Gideon e-book series [1,2] True estimates of vaccination update statistics are those published by WHO, in most cases available only since 1980. Data published by the countries themselves were not used, to avoid possible bias or inconsistency when comparing data among countries. H...
Source: GIDEON blog - May 2, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Graphs Outbreaks ProMED Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
May 2, 2019 Edition.-----The election campaign is rolling on and seems, at the present, to be a contest which becomes more and more willing and aggressive as each day passes. An amazing number of candidates have been kicked out for racism, homophobia etc. They really seem to be a collection of twits - both on the Lib and Labor side! The health debate just revealed the power of the Pharmacy Guild to stifle sensible change!In the US we are seeing a debate about impeachment flare. It will be interesting to see just where this all goes. It is totally clear that Trump worked with the Russians to win the election, and what flows...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 1, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Another factor contributing to PTSD onset; the NUMBER of traumatic events
A scientific friend and colleague, Professor Thomas Elbert from Konstanz University in Germany, has had a long interest in applying “simple” treatments to individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSDs). With his wife Maggie and others, he has developed and applied such treatments to war victims, primarily in Africa and Sri Lanka. There, literally millions of individuals have endured great personal losses and multiple horrifying experiences. If and when these individuals are resettled back to their homes in Uganda or Liberia or Sierra Leone or Rwanda or Sudan or the Congo Republic or wherever...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - May 1, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Merzenich Tags: Brain Fitness Brain Trauma, Injury Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, et alia Source Type: blogs
What Can Brain Imaging Tell Us About Violent Extremism?
In this study,Sacred Values included:Palestinian right of returnWestern military forces being expelled from all Muslim landsStrict sharia as the rule of law in all Muslim countriesArmed jihad being waged against enemies of MuslimsForbidding of caricatures of Prophet MohammedVeiling of women in publicWhat were theNonsacred Values? We don ' t know. I couldn ' t find examples anywhere in the paper. It ' s crucial that we know what these were, to help understand the “sacralization” of nonsacred values, which was observed in an fMRI experiment (described later). So I turned to the Supplemental Material ofBerns et al. (2012)...
Source: The Neurocritic - January 21, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Center for Immigration Studies Shows a Very Small Threat from Terrorists Crossing the Mexican Border
Todd Bensman, the Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), wrote a recent report entitled “Have Terrorists Crossed Our Border?” in which he presents a list of “15 suspected terrorists have been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, or en route, since 2001.” Bensman lists these 15 individuals, some of which don’t have names, and describes their actions. He writes that his research is based on publicly availab le information, so it is likely a “significant under-count” of the actual terrorists who entered. Bensman also writes that “several reports that strongly ind...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 28, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 251
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 251 Question 1 What are you suffering from if you experience sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia? Reveal the funtabulous answerIce Cream Headache or “Brain Freeze” or ICE-H ...
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 6, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mark Corden Tags: FFFF bell clapper testis brain freeze FPIES ice cream headache ICE-H knowledge translation malaria sphenopalatine ganglionerualgia Sri Lanka testicular torsion Source Type: blogs
Raj of the NHS – How doctors from India and Pakistan saved the NHS
By ROHIN FRANCIS
India and Pakistan celebrate 71 years of Independence today. The British National Health Service owes them a debt of gratitude.
Great Britain’s national dish is famously chicken curry, but South Asia’s impact on this sceptred isle extends far beyond food. It is a testament to how ingrained into the British psyche the stereotypical Indian doctor has become that in 2005 a poll of Brits found the doctor they’d most like to consult is a 30-something South Asian female. In 2010 the BBC even ran a popular TV series simply entitled ‘The Indian Doctor’ following a story played out across the UK in the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: NHS Source Type: blogs
Some Reasons to Trust Mark Zuckerberg with Freedom of Speech
Last week Mark Zuckerberg gave aninterview to Recode. He talked about many topics including Holocaust denial. His remarks on that topic fostered much commentary and not a little criticism. Zuckerberg appeared to say that some people did not intentionally deny the Holocaust. Later, he clarified his views: “I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn’t intend to defend the intent of people who deny that.” This post will not be about that aspect of the interview.Let ’s recall why Mark Zuckerberg’s views about politics and other things matter more than the views of the average highly su...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 24, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: John Samples Source Type: blogs
Get to Know Your Asian Indian Caucus
A monolingual speech-language pathologist recently reached out to ASHA’s Asian Indian Caucus (AIC) for a Tamil-speaking SLP to provide services for a 70-year-old elderly New Jersey man. The patient had expressive aphasia due to a recent stroke.
The AIC community—through its active listserve—immediately located a bilingual SLP who spoke English and Tamil. The SLP worked with the client’s local SLP to help him receive linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
In another instance, a 35-year-old female vocalist— referred to the AIC by a laryngologist in California—was seeking consultation from an SLP with...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Akila Rajappa Tags: Advocacy Audiology Slider Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Cultural Diversity Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Get to Know Your Asian Indian Caucus
The AIC Caucus met this past November at the 2017 ASHA Convention in Los Angeles.
A monolingual speech-language pathologist recently reached out to ASHA’s Asian Indian Caucus (AIC) for a Tamil-speaking SLP to provide services for a 70-year-old elderly New Jersey man. The patient had expressive aphasia due to a recent stroke.
The AIC community—through its active listserve—immediately located a bilingual SLP who spoke English and Tamil. The SLP worked with the client’s local SLP to help him receive linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
In another instance, a 35-year-old female vocalist— referred to th...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Akila Rajappa Tags: Advocacy Audiology Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Cultural Diversity Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 227
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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 227.
Question 1
In 1979 a study was conducted at a tea plantation in Sri Lanka, what was given to the tea pickers to increase their productivity?
+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answer
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 22, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five art Doctor Duncan florence Francis Galton iron deficiency anaemia kings evil medical officer of health monarch prayer radiaid scrofula Sri Lanka Stendhal syndrome TB tea pickers tuberculous lymphadenop Source Type: blogs
