Where ’s Our Infrastructure Plan B?
By KMI BELLARD
I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure. In particular, what to do when it fails.
There was, of course, the tragic collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. Watching the video – and, honestly, what were the odds there’d be video? — is like watching a disaster movie, the bridge crumbling slowly but unstoppably. The bridge had been around for almost fifty years, withstanding over 11 million vehicles crossing it each year. All it took to knock it down was one container ship.
Container ships passed under it every day of its existence; the Port of Baltimore is one of the busie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Bridges Change Healthcare GPS Infrastructure Internet Cables Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Revisiting Involuntary Isolation as a Tuberculosis Control Measure in the Post-Pandemic Era
Elizabeth Bonomo (University of Maryland), Revisiting Involuntary Isolation as a Tuberculosis Control Measure in the Post-Pandemic Era (2024): Despite emerging scientific evidence demonstrating that the public health benefit of isolating people with tuberculosis (TB) is low, state laws empowering health... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 28, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
On the importance of managing negativity bias to protect cognitive control and prevent depression relapse
Many people around the world suffer from depression. Though depression can be extremely debilitating, evidence-based treatments (like cognitive-behavioral therapy) provide hope, because they can be very effective in treating the negative thinking that accompanies depression.
Still, many people who recover from depression relapse later on. The reasons may be varied, but a new study suggests one possible contributor: Formerly depressed people dismiss positive emotional content too easily and hold on to negative content too strongly.
“This may be one of the reasons why people who’ve had depression ruminate over and over a...
Source: SharpBrains - January 30, 2024 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning anti-depressants cognitive-behavioral-therapy cognitive-control depression emotional experiences Gratitude mindfulness negativity negativity bias positive Source Type: blogs
Funny How Your Past Can Come Back All In A Rush! A Good Reminder Of Times Past.
I noticed this a day or so ago.
Colorful Mystery Solved: Scientists Discover Enzyme That Makes Urine
Yellow
Finding
Could Illuminate Future Studies of Gut Health and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Researchers
at the University of Maryland and National Institutes of Health have identified
the enzyme responsible for giving urine a yellow hue, and it ’s more than a
matter of idle curiosity or (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Accounting for Disability in International Humanitarian Law
Janet Lord (University of Maryland), Accounting for Disability in International Humanitarian Law (2022): The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) represents an important and (potentially) progressive development in the protection framework under international humanitarian... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 30, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
A bit more on Israel/Palestine
I ' m just going to outsource to Josh Marshall here, this is a bit he shows on his front page so no problem sharing it, although the rest of it is paywalled.In a few recent posts we ’ve discussed the question of whether one
state or two states is the most logical or possible resolution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (You can see my argumenthere.) A few days ago TPM ReaderRC sent me this AprilForeign Affairs article,Israel ’s One-State Reality.
It was written by three scholars at GW and another at the University of
Maryland. The piece was interesting to me because it illustrates a lot
of what the one st...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 23, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Global Health Landscape: The Proliferating Actors Influencing Global Health Governance
Benjamin Mason Meier (University of North Carolina), Matiangai V.S. Sirleaf (University of Maryland), Global Health Landscape: The Proliferating Actors Influencing Global Health Governance (U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-14) (2023): This chapter, Global Health Landscape, delineates the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 13, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Cognitive Aging and Opinion Writing Among Federal Circuit Court Judges
Ryan C. Black (Michigan State University), Ryan J. Owens (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Patrick C. Wohlfarth(University of Maryland), Cognitive Aging and Opinion Writing Among Federal Circuit Court Judges (2023): Federal judges are older and are serving longer than ever before. Lifetime... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 17, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Decolonization of Global Health Law: Lessons from International Environmental Law
Alexandra Phelan (Johns Hopkins), Matiangai V.S. Sirleaf (University of Maryland), Decolonization of Global Health Law: Lessons from International Environmental Law, 51 J. of L., Med.& Ethics (2023): Global health law for pandemics currently lacks legal obligations to ensure distributional... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 11, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Effects of Lifetime Tenure and Aging in the United States Federal Judiciary
Ryan C. Black (Michigan State University), Ryan J. Owens (University of Wisconsin), Patrick C. Wohlfarth (University of Maryland), The Effects of Lifetime Tenure and Aging in the United States Federal Judiciary (2023): Many federal judges in the United States are... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 25, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
How to Put RAND Findings on Veteran Support for Extremism in Context
A RAND survey found that U.S. veterans appeared to support extremist groups at a rate lower than the general population. In contrast, a new University of Maryland study found that veteran status was the most prominent characteristic among extremists involved in terrorism attacks with four or more victims. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 11, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Todd C. Helmus Source Type: blogs
Bridging the Representation Gap in Biomedical Research
“We hope that students come out of our program feeling like they’re part of a community. Many of us feel inadequate or struggle in some way during graduate school—it can be a challenging time. I want to build a community that our students can always come back to for support,” says Elana Ehrlich, Ph.D., the co-director of the Bridges to the Doctorate Research Training Program (B2D) at Towson University in Towson, Maryland, alongside Michelle Snyder, Ph.D..
The Towson B2D is one of several NIGMS-supported B2Ds, which are dedicated to developing a diverse pool of well-trained biomedical scientists who will transiti...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Training Source Type: blogs
A Theory of Genetic Dimensions in the Law
Yaniv Heled (Georgia State University), Liza Vertinsky (University of Maryland), Ana Santos Rutschman (Villanova University), A Theory of Genetic Dimensions in the Law, 99 Ind. L.J. (2023): Since the biotechnology revolution of the 1970s, genetic science and genetic technology have... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 28, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
University of Maryland Doctor Tells Public He's Not Sure Smoking is Any More Hazardous than Vaping
In anarticle published today byABC News, a physician from the University of Maryland is quoted as telling the public that he isn ' t sure that smoking is any more hazardous than vaping.According to the article: "' We just cannot make a conclusion that it [vaping] is safer than cigarettes, '
said Dr. Jason Rose, a Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician who is also
the Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Innovation& Physician Science at The University of Maryland. " Of course, stating that you ' re not sure if vaping is safer than cigarettes is equivalent to saying that you ' re not sure smo...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 31, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
