The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
March 10 2022 Edition ----- We have had 2 issues this week – a war in the other side of the world and biblical flooding in the East side of Australia. Really enough for a month’s worth of news!Both these news items have a long way to play out and both are going to lead to change that right now cannot be predicted.
----- Major Issues. ----- https://ww w.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/unis-should-be-punished-for-producing-poor-quality-teachers-20220224-p59zgi Unis ‘should be punished’ for producing poor-quality teachers Julie Hare Education editor Feb 27, 2022 – 4.44pm Universities that allow student teacher...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Get Ready for (Healthcare) Microgrids
BY KIM BELLARD
We depend on it. Indeed, our daily lives are unimaginable without it. The trouble is, it’s become unreliable. Lives have been lost because it wasn’t performing when it needed to be. It’s built around large facilities that are often decades old. Parts of it don’t communicate/coordinate well with others. Its workforce is aging and burnt out. There is no person or agency charged with ensuring its resiliency. It badly needs to be rethought for the 21st century.
Oh, you thought I was talking about our nation’s power grid? I was talking about ou...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Kim Bellard microgrid Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Only 46 Percent of Employment ‐Based Green Cards Went to Workers in 2020
Alex NowrastehThe immigration system of the United States favors family reunification even in the so ‐called employment‐based green card categories. Under current interpretations of U.S. immigration law, family members of immigrant workers must use employment‐based green cards. Family‐based immigration is the norm across the developed world. Japan is the onlyOECD country that has more immigrant workers than immigrant family members, but the difference is larger in the United States that other countries. Instead of a separate green card category for the spouses and children of workers, those family mem...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 26, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Children ’s books still feature more male than female protagonists
By Emily Reynolds
There are many fields in which women are underrepresented: in certain areas of education and academia, in politics, and in senior leadership roles. Efforts have been made across sectors to improve this representation, as we’ve particularly covered in the case of STEM.
Unequal representation may start before the workplace or university, however — even before school. Exploring children’s literature, a new study in PLOS One from researchers at Princeton and Emory universities finds an overrepresentation of male protagonists in children’s books, potentially reinforcing damaging societal expecta...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Gender Reading Source Type: blogs
Automatic Blood Smear Preparation for Reliable Malaria Diagnosis
Researchers at Cambridge and Bath universities in the UK, along with colleagues at the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania, have created two devices, called autohaem, that assist in creating blood smears, a common technique for diagnosing malaria. A blood smear involves manually smudging a drop of blood across a microscope slide to allow observation of the blood in detail, enabling a diagnosis. While this sounds simple, it requires dexterity and skill to perform correctly, and these latest devices are intended to streamline the process and allow health workers in low-resource areas to replicate high-quality smears consist...
Source: Medgadget - January 19, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Pathology Public Health Source Type: blogs
The Need for “Big Bioethics” Research
This editorial appears in the Jan 2022 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics.
Joel E. Pacyna and Richard R. Sharp
Empirical bioethics research has become an established field of study, with its own unique goals, vocabulary, and methods (Camporesi and Cavaliere 2021; Lee and McCarty 2016; Sugarman 2010), and with many universities and academic health centers hosting bioethics programs that support a variety of educational and translational research activities. Appropriately, the success of these programs has prompted closer scrutiny of their impact and relevance to the aims of medicine.… (...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 3, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Editorial-AJOB Education Ethics Featured Posts professional ethics Source Type: blogs
The Need for Big Bioethics Research
This editorial appears in the Jan 2022 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics.
Joel E.Pacyna andRichard R.Sharp
Empirical bioethics research has become an established field of study, with its own unique goals, vocabulary, and methods (Camporesi and Cavaliere 2021; Lee and McCarty 2016; Sugarman 2010), and with many universities and academic health centers hosting bioethics programs that support a variety of educational and translational research activities. Appropriately, the success of these programs has prompted closer scrutiny of their impact and relevance to the aims of medicine.… (Sou...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 3, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Editorial-AJOB Education Ethics Featured Posts professional ethics Source Type: blogs
Truth
We hear complaints all the time from conservatives that universities " indoctrinate " students with liberal ideas, and are hostile to conservatism. Not so. We don ' t " indoctrinate " students, we educate them. The problem is that modern conservative beliefs are incompatible with truth and logic. Here are many true facts.The universe is approximately 13.81 billion years old. The earth is a bit more than 4.5 billion years old. The earliest compelling evidence for life on earth is about 3.7 billion years old.The oldest known fossils that are anatomically the same as ours are about 300,000 years old.All life on eart...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 23, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Watching A Lecture Twice At Double Speed Can Benefit Learning Better Than Watching It Once At Normal Speed
By Emma Young
Watching lecture videos is now a major part of many students’ university experience. Some say they prefer them to live lectures, as they can choose when to study. And, according to a survey of students at the University of California Los Angeles, at least, many students also take advantage of the fact that video playback can be sped up, so cutting the amount of time they spend on lectures. But what impact does sped-up viewing have on learning? The answer, according to a new paper in Applied Cognitive Psychology, is, within some limits, none. In fact, if used strategically, it can actually improve learni...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 21, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Educational Source Type: blogs
How Turkey Lost Its Freedom — and Even Its Bread
Mustafa AkyolTheHuman Freedom Index 2021 just came out. It shows a concerning decline in freedom in countries where 83 percent of the global population lives. Among these, there are five countries whose trajectories in the past ten years are the worst of all. These are Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bahrain, and my home country, Turkey.The graph above, adapted from theHuman Freedom Index, puts Turkey ’s tragic decline visually: in 2009, Turkey ranked 83rd on the index. In ten years, it declined to 139th place. It is a remarkably downhill slide.How did this happen? How did Turkey lose its freedom so dramatically?The ans...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 17, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Mustafa Akyol Source Type: blogs
Supreme Court Should Take Up Challenge to UNC ’s Racial Preferences Alongside Harvard’s
Ilya Shapiro andGregory MillThe University of North Carolina (UNC) explicitly awards racial preferences to “underrepresented minorities” in the admissions process for its undergraduate students. This preference is not merely a small part of its decision making process. In many circumstances, UNC ’s admissions officers explicitly focus on racial classifications, treating an applicant’s race as a top ‐line qualification alongside GPA and SAT scores.As a companion case to its challenge to Harvard ’s system of racial preferences—which on its face seems statistically more significant—a group ca...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Gregory Mill Source Type: blogs
How Erdogan ’s Pseudoscience Is Ruining the Turkish Economy
Mustafa AkyolOne of the most startling stories in the world these days is what the Wall Street Journal recently called “The Erdogan Lira Crisis. ” The crisis is that Turkey’s national currency has been plummeting at an astonishing rate: in 2012, 1 U.S. dollar equaled 1.8 Turkish liras. Today,after an accelerating downward spiral of the Turkish currency, 1 dollar equals 13.7 liras.This economic catastrophe is really an “Erdogan crisis,” because its key factor is what experts have called “Erdoganomics”: Turkey’s all‐powerful president believes in a bizarre economic theory that if the central bank low...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 3, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Mustafa Akyol Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 8th 2021
In conclusion, in less common and visible cardiovascular diseases, it is crucial to recognize substantial progress and achievement, given that penetration of such information into clinical practice and the patient community can be inconsistent. Diseases such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and ATTR cardiac amyloidosis, once linked to a uniformly adverse prognosis, are now associated with the opportunity for patients to experience satisfactory quality of life and extended longevity.
VitaDAO, a Novel Approach to Crowdfunding Life Science Research
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Source: Fight Aging! - November 7, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
VitaDAO, a Novel Approach to Crowdfunding Life Science Research
How to crowdfund the development of products, with variants such as crowdfunding to purchase equity in a company rather than a product, is a solved problem. Enabled by the internet, crowdfunding clearly works well when those who provide the funds will obtain something of concrete value in the near term as a result, be it a product or equity. Unfortunately, the established approaches to crowdfunding, exemplified by platforms such as Kickstarter, fail to work at scale when the goal is to fund scientific research. People have tried, numerous times, to make a Kickstarter for scientific research, with Experiment being perhaps t...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 5, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
An Example of the Growth in Investment Funds Dedicated to the Longevity Industry
Cambrian Biopharma started as a venture fund, but is a business development company now. The most important difference between those two business models is that a fund waits for startup companies to form and be ready for investment, while a development company sets out to create startups. The longevity industry is still comparatively small, and the arrival of new investment opportunities is thought by many, including the Cambrian Biopharma principals, to be too sparse to sustain larger funds. The solution, in an environment rich with promising scientific projects, is to create those opportunities: bring together scientists...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 3, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
