On Free Speech, “Lady of Heaven,” and Sectarianism
Mustafa AkyolIn the past few weeks, some Britons had a sense of déjà vu, reminding them the censorship campaign against Salman Rushdie’s blasphemous novel “The Satanic Verses” some thirty‐five years ago. This time, the center of angst was a movie titled, “Lady of Heaven, ” which glorified the story of Lady Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. Yet, in an unmistakably sectarian tone, the movie also demonized some of the most revered figures of Sunni Islam.Hence came protests organized by some Sunni groups, fromBradford to London, in front of movie theaters. There was no violence, but the heated r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 22, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Mustafa Akyol Source Type: blogs
Career Conversations: Q & A with Medicinal Inorganic Chemist Eszter Boros
Dr. Eszter Boros. Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Eszter Boros.
“As a researcher, you get to learn something new every day, and that knowledge feeds more questions. It’s this eternal learning process, and I find that really enticing about being in science,” says Eszter Boros, Ph.D., an assistant professor of chemistry at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. Our interview with Dr. Boros highlights her journey of becoming a scientist and her research on biomedical applications of metals.
Q: What drew you to science?
A: I was born and raised in Switzerland, and I went to a linguistics-focused high school the...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 22, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Profiles Source Type: blogs
Golf Update
Since I know my 2 1/2 readers are all big golf fans I don ' t have to tell you that the U.S. Open champion is a British guy who was previously little known on this side of the pond, although he did win a U.S. amateur championship some years ago and has been successful on the European tour. The tournament was mildly interesting to me because it took place near my former home in Jamaica Plain and I used to drive by the site often on my way to Brookline and points west. Anyway, you couldn ' t care less about any of that. But what is actually interesting is that mass murderer, torturer and tyrant Mohammad bin Salman, the ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 20, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Proximie Raises $80 Million In Series C Funding to Accelerate Product Expansion of Full-Service Connected Surgical Platform
Funding round led by Advent Life Sciences. New investors include Emerson Collective, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, British Patient Capital, Mubadala and the Minderoo Foundation. Proceeds to accelerate development and scale of Proximie’s Operating System for the Operating Room – a centralized platform delivering connected surgical care Proximie, the global health technology platform digitally connecting operating […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Advent Life Sciences British Patient Capital Emerson Collective Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment John Cassidy Minderoo Foundation Mubadala C Source Type: blogs
Delivering racial equality in medicine
This report reveals the possibility of a major exodus of doctors of ethnic minority backgrounds, due to persistent and intolerable levels of racism faced at a personal and institutional level. Nearly one third of doctors surveyed have considered leaving the NHS or have already left within the past two years due to race discrimination, with 42 per cent of Black and 41 per cent Asian doctors in particular having considered leaving or having left.ReportBMA - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 15, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
“More Weight!”
Clark Neily" More weight! " Those are the famous —though perhaps apocryphal—last words of octogenarian farmer Giles Corey, who in 1692 was accused of being a witch and then pressed to death by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts when he refused to enter a plea to the charge. You might think we ' d have made great progress in the ensuing 330 years when it comes to the government ' s use of coercion against recalcitrant defendants, but you ' d be wrong. Pressure is still the mainspring of American criminal justice —we just don ' t use rocks and gravity to produce it anymore. Instead, we ' ve refined our approach to make ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Neily Source Type: blogs
Nocturnal hypertension : Something Important is being cooked in the hypertensive world !
Some physics: Why is blood under pressure?
In perfect vascular climatic conditions, the human circulatory system is comparable to a smooth flowing river irrigating 100 trillion cells, traversing many kilometers of the capillary network, to the far away tissue bed. One major difference in the river analogy is, that in human biology, the entire blood has to return back to the heart in about 30 seconds. (The fact that the venous system does this in style with near-zero pressure head is the greatest wonder in circulatory physiology)
The force per unit area, that drives the blood is the blood pressure. It is expressed...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - June 12, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Hypertension systemic hypertension acc aha esc hypertension guidelines dippers non dippers melatonin for nocturnal hypertension night time bp reverse dipper Source Type: blogs
Knowing about racial disparities in Covid outcomes reduces White Americans ’ concern and support for safety precautions
This study again showed that having more knowledge about racial disparities led to less concern about Covid. However, this effect seemed to be strongest for the group presented with information about the role of systemic issues in producing these disparities. Reduced concern in this group in turn led them to show less support for safety precautions. In essence, it seems as though the more the participants knew, the less they cared.
The authors speculate that explaining how Covid racial disparities are a product of enduring health inequalities affecting non-White communities may have made White participants feel that the...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 9, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Coronavirus Social Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
June 09, 2022 Edition-----The Russian war on Ukraine is now well over 100 days old. The destruction and deaths are just awful and the world is being seriously re-shaped. Where this ends is unknowable but unlikely to be good.In the US we are seeing almost daily mass shootings and no-one seems to know what to do. Just pathetic.In the UK the hangover is slowly lifting after the 4 day royal celebration.In OZ we are having an energy crisis which we hope we will find solutions for soon!-----Major Issues.------https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/australias-labor-government-faces-a-whole-new-economic-ball-game/news...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Hey, Old Guys!
BY KIM BELLARD
OK, how many of you had on your women-in-power bingo cards that, in 2022, Sheryl Sandberg would be out at Facebook but Queen Elizabeth II would still be Queen? It’s the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, marking seventy years on the throne. She’s getting a lot of love for that tenure, but it makes me think, geez, some people just don’t know when to step away.
Perhaps what sparked my cynicism about the Queen was an op-ed by Yuval Levin, Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old? Dr. Levin is, of course, referring to the U.S., and he’s spot-on about our governanc...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Baby Boomers Kim Bellard Politics Source Type: blogs
Regulation of Health-Related Artificial Intelligence in Medical Devices: The Canadian Story
Michael Da Silva (University of Southampton), Colleen M. Flood (University of Ottawa), Matthew Herder (Dalhousie University), Regulation of Health-Related Artificial Intelligence in Medical Devices: The Canadian Story, U. British Columbia l. Rev. (Forthcoming): Artificial Intelligence (AI) may transform Canadian healthcare.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 5, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
What you need to know about monkeypox
Recently, several European countries have reported outbreaks of monkeypox following the first case (index case) reported in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2022, linked to a traveler from Nigeria. Monkeypox belongs to a family of other pox-like viruses and is a rare viral disease characterized by flu-like symptoms and a blistering rash that typicallyRead more …What you need to know about monkeypox originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 4, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/tejas-sekhar-and-divya-srinivasan" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Divya Srinivasan and Tejas Sekhar < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 18: The Recovery So Far
George Selgin(Although my contributions to this series have so far been more-or-less in their proper order, this one isn ' t: it occurred to me only relatively recently that it would be worthwhile to take stock of the overall progress of the recovery up to the outbreak of the Roosevelt Recession before delving into that episode. Had I done this in the first place, this installment would be Part 10 of the series, with the present Part 10 and all subsequent installments moved up a notch. –Ed.)When it struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act in January 1936, the Supreme Court dropped the final curtain on the original New...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
AI are (going to be) people too
BY KIM BELLARD
My heart says I should write about Uvalde, but my head says, not yet; there are others more able to do that. I’ll reserve my sorrow, my outrage, and any hopes I still have for the next election cycle.
Instead, I’m turning to a topic that has long fascinated me: when and how are we going to recognize when artificial intelligence (AI) becomes, if not human, then a “person”? Maybe even a doctor.
What prompted me to revisit this question was an article in Nature by Alexandra George and Toby Walsh:Artificial intelligence is breaking patent law. Their main point is that pa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Artificial intelligence Kim Bellard Patent Uvalde Source Type: blogs
British Doctor Suspended for falsely claiming she was “promised” a laptop. WTF!
BY SAURABH JHA
If forced to choose Britain’s two biggest contributions to civilizations, I’d pick the Magna Carta and the vaguely instructional “f. off.” If permitted a third, I’d choose “managerialism.” Brits are good at telling others what to do. Managerialism is how the Brits once ruled India. Buoyed by the colonial experience, British managers felt they could rule doctors.
The new Viceroy, the manager-in-chief, is the General Medical Council (GMC). The GMC is a physician watchdog, funded by doctors, which works for the public good and is answerable to…well, I’ll get to that later. Their releva...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Politics Laptop Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service Saurabh Jha UK General Medical Council Source Type: blogs
