Two Years Later: Biden Has Finally Taken the First Step on Stopping Risky Arms Transfers
Jordan CohenPresident Joe Biden ’s administration just released itsConventional Arms Transfer policy, which dictates who can buy U.S. weapons and how the arms transfers process should function. These policies come directly from the White House; former President Donald Trump issued the last Conventional Arms Transfer policy in 2018, which was primarily focused on the economic benefits from weapons transfers.The Biden administration ’s Conventional Arms Transfer policy makes two notable changes. First, it adds text about norms and human rights. Specifically, it notes that the U.S. should “prevent arms transfers that ri...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 23, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs

The Yemen War Powers Resolution Vote Is An Important Step Towards Recalibrating the U.S.-Saudi Relationship
Jordan Cohen andJonathan Ellis AllenThe War in Yemen is the worst manmade humanitarian disaster in the 21st century, and the United States has sponsored it from the start. Nevertheless, on December 13, 2022, the Senate will vote to dischargeS.J. Resolution 56, also known as the Yemen War Powers Resolution, from committee. If passed, the legislation would “remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities against the Houthis in Yemen within 30 days of the enactment of this joint resolution unless Congress authorizes a later withdrawal date, issues a declaration of war, or specifically authorizes the use of the Armed Forces.”...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 13, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen, Jonathan Ellis Allen Source Type: blogs

Pure Health, UAE ’s Largest Healthcare Platform, Signs a Deal with Equity Group Investments to Invest Half a Billion Dollars in a U.S. Healthcare Company
$500m investment expands Pure Health’s footprint in the United States healthcare market. Ardent Health Services is the fourth largest private hospital operator in the United States with operations across six states. Alpha Dhabi Holding subsidiary, Pure Health, the largest integrated healthcare platform of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), today announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire a minority equity investment in Ardent Health Services (Ardent), a leading U.S. healthcare provider based in Nashville, Tennessee, for a total investment of $500 million. The investment is subject to custo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Alpha Dhabi Holding Ardent Ardent Health Services EGI Equity Group Investments Farhan Malik Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Marty Bonick Middle East Healthcare Pure Health Sam Zell U Source Type: blogs

No, the United States Should Not Kowtow to Saudi Arabia to Stick It to Russia
Justin LoganThe war in Ukraine grinds on, and Western observers seem to be growing frustrated with Russia ’s ability to sustain the war. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen has recently arrived at a ceasefire, although there are plenty of reasons to worry that it will revert to form. Some authors have begun to weigh tradeoffs in U.S. efforts in both theaters.Fareed Zakariawrites that in order to impose more stringent energy sanctions against Russia, Washington needs to go hat in hand to Saudi Arabia and cut a deal for it to pump more oil:The only plausible path to keep the pressure on Russia while not crip...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 27, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Justin Logan Source Type: blogs

The War in Afghanistan Has Not Ended If “Over the Horizon” Operations Continue
Jordan CohenSecretary of Defense Lloyd Austin recently testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee and said that despite not having U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the difficulty of “over the horizon operations” can be overcome by using intelligence from “a variety of sources. ” These types of operations rely on intelligence and the ability to station U.S. soldiers in partner countries. In return, the U.S. is technically still fighting, though without directly risking American lives. If this continues, it means that the U.S. is not withdrawing from Afghanistan, instead choosing to continue fighting a losi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 13, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs

Gold Nanoparticles Inside Contact Lenses Correct Color Blindness
Researchers in the United Arab Emirates have developed contact lenses that can help to correct color blindness. Containing gold nanoparticles, the lenses help to increase red-green contrast in wearers while also functioning as corrective lenses. The particles give the lenses a rose tint, which will hopefully result in wearers having a more positive experience when viewing the world, rather than the misplaced optimism typically associated with such tinted eye wear. Red-green color blindness can pose a variety of challenges, such as having difficulty knowing when to stop at traffic junctions in response to a red light. Re...
Source: Medgadget - March 4, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs

What the UAE Weapons Deal Says About the United States and Its Alliances
Various U.S. administrations have long wanted U.S. allies to do more, but in many parts of the world the most logical partners are authoritarian states with different interests than those of the United States. The sale of military equipment to the United Arab Emirates provides just the latest example. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 1, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Raphael S. Cohen Source Type: blogs

Prediksi Arsenal vs Manchester United 30 Januari 2021
– Semenjak dipecatnya Unai Emery dari skuat Arsenal kemudian digantikan oleh Mikel Arteta pertengahan musim kemarin, sepertinya tim dengan julukan the Gunners tersebut belum mendapatkan penampilan terbaiknya. Justru di musim kemarin Arsenal gagal mendapatkan tiket menuju liga Eropa hingga Liga champions. Pasalnya, Arsenal hanya bisa finish di urutan ke – 8 di musim kemarin. Tak jauh berbeda dengan musim kemarin Arsenal pun masih belum bisa mendongkrak penampilannya dan masih harus berjuang di papan tengah. Persaingan ketat pun masih akan terus bergulir dimana sesaat lagi Arsenal harus menjalani pertandingan yang c...
Source: Nursing Comments - January 26, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: nursingcomments Tags: Prediksi Bola Source Type: blogs

7 Digital Health Trends We ’ll Keep An Eye On In 2021
Summing up 2020 I was asked many times about the changes COVID-19 have brought about in healthcare. Well, throughout the past year, here at The Medical Futurist we were continuously posting about the technological advancements in the medical field: telemedicine, at-home lab tests, robotics and even doing sports have changed dramatically.  Most of these changes are likely to stay with us even after the pandemic is gone (I mean after we all got vaccinated), and in 2021, some will bear more fruit than ever. Let’s have a look at the 7 most promising trends in healthcare. 1. At-home lab tests Case: It seems that...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 7, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Robotics Security & Privacy Telemed Source Type: blogs

America ’s Foreign Share Is In The Bottom Third Among Richest Nations
David J. BierAmerica ’simmigrant share of its  population stagnated under President Trump for multiple years for the first time since the Great Recession—possibly for the first time during an economic boom since the 1960s. This fact should be assessed against a backdrop in which the United States already had one of the most restrictive migration polic ies in the world.New statistics from the United Nations for 2019confirm that the United States ranks in the bottom third among wealthy countries both in terms of foreign ‐​born share of its population and per‐​capita increase in foreign‐​born population. Pr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 25, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs

An Immunity Passport After COVID-19 And How Digital Health Can Support It
If you’re reading this from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, then you’re likely not the only one. Even at The Medical Futurist, we are working from home to bring you the latest digital health news in a timely manner. One of the latest trends of interest to governments is the immunity passport, or some certified methods to ensure someone has antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in order to move around. We have already discussed scenarios about how and when the pandemic will end, but we’ve also analyzed the ways that life will drastically change. One of the major changes we could experience is the introduction of an immu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 30, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Security & Privacy testing data privacy coronavirus covid covid19 immunity passport Source Type: blogs

Life after COVID-19: What Will Change?
The news is ripe with information surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. We saw the number of confirmed cases is plummeting in countries like South Korea. In a surprise move, Apple and Google teamed up to help track the virus. Some countries are even thinking of lifting their lockdowns altogether. Yes, that’s the good news we’re all looking forward to: when this will be finally behind us. Let’s have no doubt about it, this will come to an end, like we discussed in a recent article. We will have a vaccine and new, approved treatments based on millions of patients’ data. We will have new public health protocols to...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Telemedicine & Smartphones ptsd healthcare systems data privacy tracking coronavirus covid19 immunity passport vaccine research Source Type: blogs

The COVID Pandemic: WHO Dunnit?
By ANISH KOKA, MD COVID is here. A little strand of RNA that used to live in bats has a new host.  And that strand is clearly not the flu.  New York is overrun, with more than half of the nation’s new cases per day, and refrigerated 18-wheelers parked outside hospitals serve as makeshift morgues.  Detroit, New Orleans, Miami, and Philadelphia await an inevitable surge of their own with bated breath.  America’s health care workers are scrambling to hold the line against a deluge of sick patients arriving hourly at a rate that’s hard to fathom.  I pause here to attest to the heroic r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zoya Khan Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka coronavirus Pandemic Sars-CoV-2 WHO World Health Organization Source Type: blogs

Interventionists Evade Responsibility for Their Policy Disasters
Ted Galen CarpenterAs I point out in a newNational Interest Onlinearticle, a multi-sided struggle for power in Libya continues to fester more than eight years after the United States led an air war to help rebels oust longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi.Libya joins Iraq and Syria as a classic example of the failed U.S. regime-change strategy.Fighting between Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar ’s so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) and the even more misnamed Government of National Accord (GNA) has intensified in and around the capital, Tripoli. The LNA boasted on September 11 that its forces had routed troops of the Sarraj milit...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 20, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs

Striking Iran In Response to Abqaiq Attack Would Be a Mistake
Christopher A. PrebleThe smoke hasn ’t yet cleared from the attack on Saudi Aramco’s facility, but U.S. officials were quick to pin blame on Iran, with some even going so far as to suggest thatmilitary strikes could be – and should be – in the offing.Such a move should upset constitutional purists; Congress hasn ’t authorized military action against Iran for these purposes. The case that the Trump administration might present to Congress in an attempt to build support for strikes is unlikely to be compelling. Indeed, the story of the attack and what U.S. military strikes in retaliation would achieve is a lot more...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 16, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs