Trump Cut Muslim Refugees 91%, Immigrants 30%, Visitors by 18%
ConclusionThe bottom line is that the Trump administration is leading a major overhaul in the types of travelers, immigrants, and visitors who are coming to the United States. His administration reduced Muslim refugees by 91 percent and has overseen a 30 percent cut to immigrant visas for majority Muslim countries and an 18 percent cut to temporary visas. These policies lacka valid national security justification, but they are nonetheless having a significant effect. President Trump is certainly following through on his promise to limit Muslim immigration, even if a “total and complete shutdown” has not happened.Table ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition 2018 now open for submissions
Last year, to celebrate our transition from BioMed Central to BMC, we held our first ever ‘Research in progress’ photo competition. We received hundreds of fantastic entries covering everything from microscopy, ecology, and public health.
A year on, we are pleased to announce the launch of the 2nd ‘Research in progress’ photo competition. Once again we want to see your enthusiasm for science and progress reflected in your photography.
Your image should be related to research and can be focused on any area of your work and from any discipline including physical sciences, mathematics and engineering. Anyone with an i...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 27, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Davy Falkner Tags: Open Access Publishing Source Type: blogs
The Chance of Being Murdered or Injured in a Terrorist Attack in the United Kingdom
On Tuesday, a Sudanese immigrant to the United Kingdom namedSalih Khater crashed his car into cyclists and pedestrians in a terrorist attack in London. Fortunately, Khater did not murder anybody in his attack but he did injurethree pedestrians, one of whom was so lightly wounded that he was treated at the scene and released. The other two wounded people have since been released from the hospital. Terrorism has been relatively common in the United Kingdom for decades, from the Irish Republican Army to al Qaeda to ISIS. However, there islittle research on the actual risk of a British person being killed or injured in a ter...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 15, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
A Breakthrough in Care for Women Affected by Female Genital Cutting
By: Mara Evans June 2016 It is pushing 100 degrees under the South Sudanese sun as a goat wanders past the hospital entrance and a crackly voice on my walkie talkie reminds me to bring extra mosquito nets to the maternity department. At the same time, I am attending my Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - July 18, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse dnp Female Genital Cutting FGC Source Type: blogs
Africa Is A Hotspot For Digital Health
Digital health in Africa is booming, and that’s the greatest news since the invention of broadband internet connection. The flourishing of disruptive solutions might go down to the fact that instead of relying on traditional infrastructure and a conventional healthcare system, populations in Africa need cheap, easily accessible and genuinely problem-solving technologies. Why, when and how have they got there? Read on!
Disrupted infrastructure should be …
Africa has the world’s worst health record. The birth-continent of the homo sapiens bears one-quarter of the global disease burden, yet it spends only 1 percent of t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 5, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy 3d printing Africa digital digital health digital technology Innovation mhealth mobile mobile health smartphone Source Type: blogs
The Digital Future of Pathology
Pathology is the motor that drives healthcare to understand diseases. While it does the job via the same methods as it did for the last 150 years, it’s time to change. Digital technologies could push the field into becoming more efficient and more scalable. They could transform the job of pathologists into a more creative and data-driven profession while allowing patients to receive diagnoses faster and more accurately. Let’s see how the digital future of pathology looks!
The foundation of medicine, pathology, has not changed for over 150 years
Although the whole edifice of medicine rests on the pathologist’s diagno...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence biotechnology deep learning digital digital health medical imaging pathology precision medicine Radiology 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
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
Inflation Is Largely a Global Phenomenon
When economic journalists speculate about loominginflation risks in the U.S. or any other country, they implicitly assume that each country ’s inflation depends on that country’s fiscal or monetary policies, and perhaps the unemployment rate. YetTheEconomist for March 3rd–9th shows approximately 1 –2 percent inflation in the consumer prices index (CPI) for virtually all major economies. Inflation rates were surprisingly similar regardless of whether countries had budget deficits larger than ours (Japan and China) or big surpluses (Norway and Hong Kong), regardless of whether central banks experimented with“quant...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 9, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
A Message to the Nurse's Future Self
So nurse, it ' s twenty years in the future, and you have two more decades of nursing under your belt. You ' ve cared for thousands of patients, held thousands of hands, and looked into thousands of pairs of eyes. What do you remember, and what do your patients recall? What stands out for you? How does your career compare to your expectations, dreams and aspirations? How would you like that 20 years to live in your mind and heart? You can create it now.Patients RememberNurse, what do your patients remember about you? First, they probably don ' t remember your name, and that ' s almost a certainty. Maybe a special one or tw...
Source: Digital Doorway - February 26, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers healthcare careers nurse nurse careers nurses nursing Source Type: blogs
Matthew Holt ’ s EOY 2017 letter (charities/issues/gossip)
Right at the end of every year I write a letter summarizing my issues and charities. And as I own the joint here, I post it on THCB! Please take a look–Matthew Holt
Well 2017 has been quite a year, and last year 2016 I failed to get my end-of-year letter out at all. This I would like to think was due to extreme business but it probably came down to me being totally lazy. On the other hand like many of you I may have just been depressed about the election–2016 was summed up by our cat vomiting on our bed at 11.55 on New Years Eve.
Having said that even though most of you will never comment on this letter and I ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Matthew Holt Charity Patient Activism 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
Prior Presidents ’ “Travel Bans” Are Different From President Trump’s Ban
President Trump ’stravel ban Proclamation that bans immigration and travel from seven countries (and limits it from an eighth) is based on authority in immigration law that other presidents have used. But all but one of these bans were quite different from President Trump ’s. They banned at most a few thousand—almost always specifically named—individuals based on their personal conduct, not their nationality. In the one exception, not all nationals were banned, and the requirements to end the ban were very clear. Neither of which can be said for the Trump ban.Different in ScaleNo president has attempted to ban as m...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 16, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Make “Enhanced” Vetting Great Again
ConclusionThe enhanced vetting procedures for refugees are modest extensions of current vetting procedures. Before President Trump took office, refugee vetting was already extreme and difficult to further enhance. The eleven countries singled out for intensive new refugee scrutiny make little sense from a national security perspective and even less sense if the goal is to secure the public safety of Americans. No refugee from any of those nations has murdered an American in a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and their incarceration rates, except for Somalis, are all well below those of native-born Americans. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 31, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Travel Ban Is Based on Executive Whim, Not Objective Criteria
ConclusionFor countries on the list, and for any country wishing to remain off the list, it is vitally important that they understand which factors led to their inclusion or exclusion. If the United States is acting in good faith —seeking to change behavior as opposed to looking for an excuse to ban people—its criteria should be clearly explained and understood. The Iran nuclear deal, for example, hasvery precise requirements for Iran to avoid sanctions, down to the exact percentage of purity for its enriched uranium. This is very far from the case here.No consistent combination of factors or mitigating factors trigger...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
