Mandatory SARS-CoV-2 Vaccinations in K-12 Schools, Colleges/Universities, and Businesses
Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown University), Jana Shaw (SUNY), Daniel Salmon (Johns Hopkins University), Mandatory SARS-CoV-2 Vaccinations in K-12 Schools, Colleges/Universities, and Businesses, J. Am. Med. Ass ’n. (2021): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued guidance that fully... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 1, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Lone Star Republic
For quite a while now, there has been a movement for Texas to secede from the U.S. I think this is a great idea! There might be a few minor complications, however.First, all of the U.S. military bases in Texas would immediately close. All of the moveable equipment would be trucked out, and all the personnel would leave. Too bad for local businesses. Since Texas would now need its own army, navy and air force, it might be able to use the bases, but it would have to buy all of the aircraft, ships, trucks, tanks and weapons. Texas would also need its own coast guard, of course, and it would need to patrol its own borders, wit...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 25, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
You Need a Cyber Team
By KIM BELLARD
Maybe you, like me, are an Olympics fan (in my case: Summer Games, track & field). Most Americans look forward eagerly to the Super Bowl, while the rest of the world (and, increasingly, many in the U.S.) are waiting for the World Cup. But too few of us are aware that next summer will be the inaugural International Cyber Security Challenge, an esports event that pits teams from multiple countries against each other in cybersecurity skills. The U.S. is sending a 25 person team.
So what, you might say? Well, if you work in healthcare (or any industry, for that matter), or use any kind of di...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology cyber attacks Cyber Games Cybersecurity esports hackathon Hacking Hacking Healthcare Hacking HIPAA Healthcare IT Internet of Things Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Time to Stand Up For The Morality of Vaccine Mandates
Arthur Caplan, PhD
ABPD Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates For All Eligible Americans The Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD) represents the leadership of nearly 100 academic bioethics programs at medical centers and universities across North America. In the face of the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines have been medically shown to greatly reduce rates of COVID-19 infection, transmission, severe disease, and death. With full approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of one COVID-19 vaccine and others soon to follow, the clear benefits of vaccination when com...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 4, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Arthur Caplan Tags: Featured Posts Professionalism Public Health Vaccines Source Type: blogs
When Exemptions Discriminate: Unlawfully Narrow Religious Exemptions to Vaccination Mandates by Private Colleges and Universities
Ronald J. Colombo (Hofstra University), When Exemptions Discriminate: Unlawfully Narrow Religious Exemptions to Vaccination Mandates by Private Colleges and Universities, 44 New Eng. L. Rev. (forthcoming July 26, 2021): Numerous colleges and universities have imposed COVID-19 vaccination mandates upon their... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 29, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
There ’s Surprisingly Little Evidence Behind Common Beliefs About The Best Way For Immigrants To Adapt
By Emma Young
The world is full of migrants — not only refugees from places like Afghanistan and Syria, but also people who have travelled to study, or to work in another country. In fact, 281 million people live outside their country of birth or citizenship. They face all kinds of challenges, and adapting well to life in a new culture is a critical one.
Current thinking holds that what an immigrant does is important for how well they adapt both psychologically and socially. A combination of maintaining one’s own culture while also engaging in the mainstream culture is widely held to be the best strategy. This i...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 28, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Social Source Type: blogs
It's Alright, Ma, It's Life and Life Only: Have Universities Been Meeting Their Legal Obligations to High-Risk Faculty During the Pandemic?
Gary J. Simson (Mercer University), Mark L. Jones (Mercer University), Cathren Page (Mercer University), Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne (Mercer University), It's Alright, Ma, It's Life and Life Only: Have Universities Been Meeting Their Legal Obligations to High-Risk Faculty During the Pandemic?,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 28, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Area Cartel Laments Cost of Joining, Proposes Government Pay the Tab
Scott Lincicome and Ilana BlumsackCiting the high cost of attending law school in the United States today, the American Bar Associationhascalled on the federal government to suspend or forgive certain lawyers ’ student loans, and isco-sponsoring a “Student Debt Week of Action” this week to lobby Congress “for additional student loan debt relief.” Unmentioned in this advocacy, however, is that the ABA and its member associations in states across the country are at least partially responsible for the extreme tuition and debt levels that today’s law school graduates must incur.It ’s undoubtedly true that law sch...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 23, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome, Ilana Blumsack Source Type: blogs
Cato Files Amicus Brief in Major School Choice Case
Trevor Burrus andNived RajendranThe fight for school choice has always faced push ‐back when it comes to funding religious education. Even though Pell Grants and federal student loans can be used to attend religious universities, people become wary when school‐choice dollars—whether in the form of vouchers, tax credits, or whatever—are given to religious K-12 school s. Over the years, the Supreme Court has weighed in on this issue a few times, and the justices have usually concluded that states can ’t discriminate against religion in their school‐choice programs. Last year was the most recent deci...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 14, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Trevor Burrus, Nived Rajendran Source Type: blogs
Immigration Undermines Affirmative Action in American States
Alex Nowrasteh and Michael HowardA newargument against liberalized immigration has recently emerged: more immigration will increase affirmative action. There are two arguments for why more immigration could increase the scale and scope of affirmative action. The first is that most immigrants are not white. As a result, they would benefit from affirmative action and, thus, demand it. The second is that immigrants mostly vote for Democrats who support expanding affirmative action. To answer whether more immigration is correlated with affirmative action, we look at whether a larger immigrant population on the state level i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh, Michael Howard Source Type: blogs
Women And Early Career Academics Experience Imposter Syndrome In Fields That Emphasise Natural Brilliance
By Emily Reynolds
Imposter syndrome — the feeling that you don’t belong or aren’t capable at work or in education — can affect anybody. But people from underrepresented backgrounds are more likely to experience imposter syndrome: first generation university students, for example, or people of colour.
Imposter syndrome can be particularly acute in academia, where intellectual flair is prized. In fact, a new study published in the Journal of Educational Psychology finds that in fields in which intellectual “brilliance” is perceived to be a prerequisite to success, imposter syndrome is more like...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Educational Gender Source Type: blogs
Big Tech In Medicine: How Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM & NVIDIA Disrupt Healthcare
We’ve spent a good part of our summer writing about Big Tech and how these companies, Amazon, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, IBM and NVIDIA have approached medicine and its trillion-dollar market possibilities. These six companies have the most projects in healthcare, and their presence is not negligible at all: they all have the power and the incentive to transform and help digitise this market.
Moreover, all of these companies have something peculiar and very unique to give. Amazon’s distribution network can change the way we think of pharmacies in the future. Microsoft can bring steadiness, reason and predict...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 24, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: TMF Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Insurance Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphon Source Type: blogs
How to read, understand and write great medical research
These excellent tips are kindly shared by RK Sharma and HL Ogle, two medical students at the University of Exeter, aiming to clear up many of the inaccurate assumptions of how difficult publishing is and provide a clear guide for students to begin their own writing journeys.
#1. Find your why: Evidence-based medicine means that these are vital skills, and it has long been thought that the habits should be learned from early on.
#2. Play to your strengths and be realistic: A little bit of thought and planning at this stage will create a much friendlier introduction to research. Take a little time to reflect and think about ...
Source: SharpBrains - August 23, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health evidence-based-medicine how to read and understand how to remember what you read medical research read research tips Source Type: blogs
Is Orban Protecting Hungary from Libertarianism?
David BoazTucker Carlson spent a week in Hungary extolling the accomplishments of Viktor Orban, the proud father of “illiberal democracy.” In an earlier edition of his show, Carlson hadpraised Orban for not “abandoning Hungary’s young people to the hard‐edged libertarianism of Soros and the Clinton Foundation.”Absurd, right? George Soros and the Clinton Foundation libertarian, much less “hard‐edged” libertarians? Hardly.And we might just have a laugh and leave it there. But maybe there ’s a deeper sense in which Carlson has a point.Libertarianism may be regarded as a polit...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 11, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Is It Time to Minus PLUS?
Neal McCluskeyFederal student loans are having a moment, and not a good one. With the COVID-19 repayment pausedue to end in October, House Speaker Nancy Pelosiopposing massive loan forgiveness, andtwoWall Street Journalarticles shining spotlights on how federal programs enable staggering tuition inflation, much attention is being paid to the crippling unintended consequences of federal higher ed “help.”But what to do about it?As I have arguedfor years, the right thing to do is phase out all federal aid programs, starting with those least focused on the poor and basically working our way down. Of course, ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 30, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
