The Counterintuitive Sensibility of Taiwan's New Defense Strategy
As the United States prepares to deter China from attacking Taiwan and defend it from an attack, are the Taiwanese themselves doing everything they can to defend their territory? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 6, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Raymond Kuo Source Type: blogs
Taiwan Is Safe Until at Least 2027, but with One Big Caveat
Although Chinese President Xi Jinping clearly seeks to bring Taiwan to heel, and by force if necessary, he also continues to promote“peaceful reunification” as Beijing ' s preferred means. Xi likely would have toughened up his language by now if he thought war was a real possibility. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 10, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
How Can You Improve Your Mental Health With Technology
Technology and mental well-being might seem like profoundly antagonistic terms. However, there are excellent digital tools to help you reach mindfulness and to practice meditation. You can even use smartphone apps, virtual reality solutions and digital devices as a form of relieving stressing and achieving digital detox – as, after a while, you will be able to practice all types of anti-anxiety skills on your own.
During the pandemic many organisations have warned to prepare of the biggest wave of all – a state we called “depidemic” in our related article. A worldwide scale of anxiety, loneliness and fear, assoc...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 9, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Telemedicine & Smartphones Virtual Reality depression digital health Innovation technology mental health mental wellbeing emotional emotional health stress management anxiety Source Type: blogs
HOW TO Improve Your Mental Health With Technology
Technology and mental well-being might seem like profoundly antagonistic terms. However, there are excellent digital tools to help you reach mindfulness and to practice meditation. You can even use smartphone apps, virtual reality solutions and digital devices as a form of relieving stressing and achieving digital detox – as, after a while, you will be able to practice all types of anti-anxiety skills on your own.
During the pandemic many organisations have warned to prepare of the biggest wave of all – a state we called “depidemic” in our related article. A worldwide scale of anxiety, loneliness and fear, assoc...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 9, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Telemedicine & Smartphones Virtual Reality depression digital health Innovation technology mental health mental wellbeing emotional emotional health stress management anxiety Source Type: blogs
Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, AbbVie, Sanofi & Bristol Myers Squibb: Big Pharma ’s Extending Digital Health Reaches
A few weeks ago, we kickstarted a new series of articles contemplating the moves of pharmaceutical heavyweights in the digital health arena. The first batch of companies, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Bayer and Novartis, seem to have some interest in remote healthcare solutions and DTx.
In this second article, we will explore which trends pharma giants Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, AbbVie, Sanofi and Bristol Myers Squibb are eyeing.
Merck: big tech-friendly
A big pharma company itself, Germany’s Merck hasn’t shied from teaming up with big tech companies in recent years as it aims to make a lasting footpri...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 26, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Biotechnology Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy pharmaceutics 23andme philips big pharma Merck Source Type: blogs
Biden and His Foreign Policy Team At Least Need to Get on the Same Page Regarding Taiwan
Ted Galen CarpenterStatements by the Biden administration about U.S. policy toward Taiwan have taken on a very disturbing pattern. The latest episode occurred on October 21 during a CNN town hall session when the president was asked whether the United States would defend Taiwan from an attack by the People ’s Republic of China (PRC). Bidenresponded unhesitatingly: “Yes, we have a commitment. ” He flatly misstated what U.S. policy has been since Washington established formal diplomatic relations with the PRC in 1979 and adopted theTaiwan Relations Act (TRA) to clarify economic and cultural ties with Tai...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 25, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
The “Secret Sauce” – A Comparison of TSMC and Pfizer
By MIKE MAGEE
This week’s Tom Friedman Opinion piece in the New York Times contained a title impossible to ignore: “China’s Bullying Is Becoming a Danger To The World and Itself.” The editorial has much to recommend it. But the item that caught my eye was Friedman’s full-throated endorsement of Taiwan’s “most sophisticated microchip manufacturer in the world,” Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).
TSMC owns 50% of the world’s microchip manufacturing market, and along with South Korea’s Samsung, is one of only two companies currently producing the ultra-small 5-nano...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology microchip Mike Magee Pfizer Privacy TSMC Vaccination Vaccinations Vaccine vaccines Source Type: blogs
Biden Administration Shows Unwavering Support for Taiwan
Ten months into the Biden administration, it is abundantly clear that the United States will continue to strengthen ties with Taiwan and defend the island if ever attacked by China. Through both word and deed, the United States has continued to demonstrate that Taipei should have no worries about Washington ' s commitment to the island. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - October 20, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 14 2021 Edition ----- The strategic competition between the US and China – and the proxy of the status of Taiwan – has dominated the news this week – along with the worsening global energy crisis caused by all sorts of factors including wrong demand predictions and a shortage of supply. Europe being short 400,000 truck drivers is hardly helping. Right now the energ y crisis is still getting worse!
The UK is looking like it will have a ‘winter of discontent’ like the 1970’s with shortages of all sorts of things – especially heating! In OZ ScoMo is now out of quarantine while we are all waiting to see ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 14, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
House 2022 National Defense Authorization Act Amendments on Arms Sales and Security Assistance
Jordan CohenThe House is set to vote on theNational Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2022. Prior to the structured Rule for the act, there were a total of fifty amendments that, if passed, would directly impact weapons sales legislation. Overall, these bills are divided into five broad themes: congressional power, increased monitoring and reporting surrounding human rights violators, weapons sales to the Middle East, weapons sales to counter Russia, and weapons sales to counter China.Readers should examine the2020 Arms Sales Risk Index for our latest data on risks associated with the weapons sales proc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Roger Chou s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDCs 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity
by Chad D. Kollas MD, Terri A. Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie JudyI ' m present. Uh I do have a conflict. I receive funding to conduct reviews on opioids, and I ' ll be recusing myself after the um, director ' s, uh, um, um, uh update.- Dr. Roger Chou, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) Meeting Friday, July 16, 2021.IntroductionFor those familiar with the controversial relationship between the anti-opioid advocacy group, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP, recently renamed, Health Pro...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 17, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas lewis opioid pain schechtman Source Type: blogs
Roger Chou ’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity
by Chad D. Kollas MD, Terri A. Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy“I ' m present. Uh … I do have a conflict. I receive funding to conduct reviews on opioids, and I ' ll be recusing myself after the um, director ' s, uh, um, um, uh … update.”- Dr. Roger Chou, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) Meeting Friday, July 16, 2021.IntroductionFor those familiar with the controversial relationship between the anti-opioid advocacy group, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP, recently renamed, He...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 17, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas lewis opioid pain schechtman Source Type: blogs
More Laughing, More Thinking
By KIM BELLARD
There was a lot going on this week, as there always is, including the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the beginning of the NFL season, so you may have missed a big event: the announcement of the 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Awards (no, those are not typos).
What’s that you say — you don’t know the Ig Nobel Awards? These annual awards, organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, seek to:
…honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in scie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Research health research Ignobel Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Breast Cancer Screening: We Can Do Better
The three risk assessment tools now in use fall far short. Using the latest deep learning techniques, investigators are developing more personalized ways to locate women at high risk.John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article.The promise of personalized medicine will eventually allow clinicians to offer individual patients more precise advice on prevention, early detection and treatment. Of course, the operative word iseventually.A closer examination of the screening tools available to detect breast c...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - August 31, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Đài Loan có thuộc Trung Quốc không? Tìm hiểu lịch sử Đài Loan
Những năm gần đây, du học sinh Đài Loan được xem là một chủ đề hot được nhiều người quan tâm nhờ vào đây là một một trường có nền kinh tế phát triển, nền giáo dục được đầu tư và cơ hội việc làm cao. Tuy nhiên, Đài Loan có thuộc Trung Quốc không? Đài Loan thuộc nước nào? “Đài Loan, Trung Quốc” được xem là một thuật ngữ mang tính chính trị và không rõ ràng giữa Đài Loan và Trung Quốc. Nếu bạn còn băn khoăn thì hãy cùng Teco tìm hiểu ngay dưới đây.
Đài Loan có thuộc Trung...
Source: A Daring Adventure - July 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: admin Tags: Tin tức & sự kiện đài loan trung quốc Source Type: blogs
