The Texas Terrorist Attack and the Foreign ‐Born Terrorist Threat
Alex NowrastehMalik Faisal Akram took four hostages in the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas on the morning of January 15, 2022. Akram let one of the hostages go and the other three eventually escaped. FBI agents then shot and killed Akram when they entered the synagogue. Fortunately, Akram ’s terrorist attack ended without any innocent people being murdered or physically injured. Still, Akram’s attack provides some valuable lessons and insights to understanding foreign‐born terrorism.Akram was born in the United Kingdom and entered the United States in late December, likely through theVisa Waiver Pro...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 21, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Whiteness
We have the classic race vs. class debate going on in the comments. I have also received (and not published) a mind-boggingly absurd comment arguing that slavery was not a fundamentally racist institution. Let me say first that in my view it really isn ' t possible in the United States to separate the issues of class and race. The basic reason why we have never developed an effective workers ' party and had a relatively weak labor movement and a very limited socialist tradition compared to most of western Europe is because the working class has been divided by race. Yes, there have been attempts to organiz...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 21, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 7th 2021
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Source: Fight Aging! - June 6, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Highly Active Tsimane People Exhibit Slower Neurodegeneration with Age
You may recall the data on cardiovascular health published in recent years for the Tsimane population in Bolivia, characterized by a physically active lifestyle and a diet that lacks most of the problem components found in wealthier parts of the world. The rates of cardiovascular disease are far lower in the Tsimane than in US populations. While there are certainly inevitable processes of aging that can only be addressed by the development of new medical biotechnologies, it is also the case that a sizable fraction of cardiovascular and muscle degeneration in the wealthier populations of the world appears to be self-inflict...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 3, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Cerner's VA EHR Rollout Experiences Months' Long Delay and Rising Costs
Here's a report from theDark Daily about the increasing cost of the Cerner/VA contract for a new EHR to replaceVistA (see:Implementing a New EHR at the Veterans Administration Is Taking Longer and Costing More than Earlier Estimates) and below is an excerpt from the article: Originally estimated to cost $10 billion, a contract to replace the federal Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) electronic health record (EHR) system will now cost $16.1 billion, according to new estimates, and this has drawn increased scrutiny from regulators and the media.ProPublica reports that the initial deal signed in May 2018 between t...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 10, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Source Type: blogs
A Capitalist Went To Cuba...
Mrs. Dalai and I continue to travel to weird and wonderful places, and with me being officially retired, we hope to do so even more often. Cuba has always intrigued me, and I had even strongly considered joining a religious mission trip here some years ago. Yes, there is a very small, but very vibrant Jewish community in Cuba. We never did makethat trip, but we are now circumnavigating the island nation on a very nice cruise ship. While other ships have made the run, this is the first visit for our particular liner, and I feel a bit like a pioneer. Our first stop was in Santiago, very near Guantanamo, then to Cienfuegos wi...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - March 27, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
New Reports Detail the Jones Act ’s Cost to Puerto Rico
Last year the American Maritime Partnership released a report claiming that the Jones Act, a protectionist law which requires domestic water transport to be performed by vessels that are U.S.-made, crewed, owned, and flagged, imposes no cost on consumers in Puerto Rico. Riddled with apples-to-oranges comparisons and an opaque methodology —the no cost assertion was in large part based on a cost comparison of a mere 13 items sold by Walmart at its stores in Jacksonville, Florida and San Juan, Puerto Rico—the reportwas deeply flawed.Just how flawed became more apparent last week when several Puerto Rico-based business gro...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 25, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Puerto Rico, LNG, and the Jones Act
In 2017 the United States reached a milestone: for the first time since 1957 the country was a net exporter of natural gas. Today ships laden with U.S.-produced liquified natural gas (LNG) travel the globe delivering their cargo everywhere from Japan to Jordan and Spain to South Korea. One place U.S. LNG is not exported to, however, is Puerto Rico.Incredibly, that ’s not despite the fact that Puerto Rico is part of the United States, but because of it. As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico is subject to the Jones Act, a 1920 law which restricts the transport of cargo between two points in the United States to vessels tha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 8, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
New Immigrants Are More Culturally Different than They Used to Be
Native-born American concerns about immigration are primarily abouthow immigration will affect the culture of the country as a whole and, to a lesser extent, how the newcomers will affect the economy. One’s personal economic situation is not a major factor. It’s reasonable to assume that the degree of cultural difference between native-born Americans and new immigrants affects the degree of cultural concern. Thus, Americans would likely be less concerned over immigrants from Canada or Singapore than they would be over immigrants from Egypt or Azerbaijan. A large team of psychologists recently created an index o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
National Digital Health Strategies Around the World
As healthcare systems struggle with unsustainability, a shortage of medical professionals, while technological development is soaring, digital health seems to be a viable path toward making healthcare feasible. We looked around the world, which countries have the same idea in mind trying to put it into practice. The following national digital health strategies are the examples we found.
Why does every country need a digital health strategy?
Three reasons necessitate the urgent introduction of a digital health strategy in every country.
(1) First and foremost, healthcare systems are unsustainable. According to OECD projecti...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 16, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy australia Denmark digital health strategy healthcare system healthcare systems Innovation Israel new zealand rwanda 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
Malaria in Trinidad and Tobago
The following background data on malaria in Trinidad and Tobago are abstracted from Gideon and the Gideon e-book series. [1.2]
Trinidad and Tobago was certified “malaria-free” by WHO in December 1965.
84 cases of malaria were reported during 1968 to 1986 (29.8% due to Plasmodium falciparum)
213 cases were reported during 1968 to 1997 (40% P. falciparum) These figures included 164 cases imported during 1968 to 1977 – 48.8% from Africa.
118 cases were reported during 1989 to 1998 (33.8% P. falciparum)
Incidence data for malaria are depicted in the following graph. Peaks reported during 1966 and 19...
Source: GIDEON blog - April 28, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Graphs ProMED Source Type: blogs
Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Why Racism Is The Antithesis Of Self Development
I spent a day or so in the ER this past weekend.
The details aren’t important other than to say chest pain and shortness of breath don’t necessarily mean you are about to become an ex-Life Coach and shuffle off this mortal coil.
During the time I spent there I probably came into direct contact with about 50 members of staff.
That’s a lot in such a short period of time until you realize I had 3 lots of blood taken, 2 chest x-rays, 2 nuclear medicine scans, a stress test and 2 CT scans over about a 24-hour period.
I don’t like watching TV lying in bed and my phone service was intermittent at best so between the batt...
Source: A Daring Adventure - August 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 196
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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 196.
Question 1
What happens if you swallow chewing gum?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 6, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five catatumbo chewing gum children Constipation drowning growth lightning pancreatitis Schaltenbrand syndrome scorpion bite spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak Source Type: blogs
