One Day I ’ll Fly Away, COVID Permitting
With Fall in full swing, many of us are asking “when will I begin to live my life again?” Life involves traveling, yet 2020 was the worst year in tourism history, with 1 billion fewer international arrivals than 2019. And now, after an optimistic summer, travel bookings for Labor Day were down 15% from 2019, indicating that the Delta variant dissuades people from traveling. Still, getting away is a human need, and an economic need. In a recent press release, the U.S. Travel Association urges everyone to vaccinate, for their own protection, and “to help put us on the p...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Talya Miron-Shatz Tags: confidence creativity featured health and fitness philosophy covid experience happiness travel Source Type: blogs
Disabled Perspectives on Legal Education: Reckoning and Reform
Lilith A. Siegel (UC Berkeley), Karen Tani (University of Pennsylvania), Disabled Perspectives on Legal Education: Reckoning and Reform, 69 J. Legal Educ. (forthcoming Aug. 9, 2021): This is an Introduction to a Journal of Legal Education symposium on "Disabled Law... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 28, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Smart Dental Implant Resists Bacteria and Generates Electricity
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania created a dental implant that resists bacterial growth and generates electricity thanks to its piezoelectric properties. The generated electricity could power a light source for on-board phototherapy, a technique that could help protect gum tissue from disease and inflammation. The implant contains discs with embedded barium titanate (BTO) nanoparticles that work to create a negative surface charge on the material that repels bacteria.
Dental implants are used to replace teeth that are lost through decay or gum disease, and are a more advanced solution to tooth loss than den...
Source: Medgadget - September 10, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dentistry Materials Source Type: blogs
Unobserved Heterogeneity, State Dependence, and Health Plan Choices
Ariel Pakes (Harvard University), Jack R. Porter (University of Wisconsin), Mark Shepard (Harvard University), Sophie Calder-Wang (University of Pennsylvania), Unobserved Heterogeneity, State Dependence, and Health Plan Choices(Harv. Kennedy Sch., Working Paper No. RWP21-020, 2021): We provide a new method to... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 6, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Next Week ’s Conference on Retail Investing and the Future of Equities Markets
Jennifer J. SchulpRetail ––or individual––investors are having a moment. Over the past 18 months, they have entered the equities markets in droves and made headlines across the financial press. TheGameStopphenomenon got the bulk of the attention, but it is only part of the story. Retail investors opened more than10 million new brokerage accounts in 2020 and10 million more so far this year. These new investors aremore diverse, younger, and less wealthy than those who previously participated in the markets. And they not only account for asignificant portion of trading volume as of late, but they are also making a mar...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 1, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jennifer J. Schulp Source Type: blogs
Libertarians Have Been Right about Marijuana Legalization Thus Far
Lachlan MerskyIn anarticle National Review published this month, the author chronicles the alleged negative effects of marijuana legalization, yet his claims are dubious. Marijuana is only legal in18 states, and it is still a federally illegalSchedule I substance, so it is far too early to make any conclusions on legalization. That said, the preliminary data we do have can tell us a lot about what marijuana legalization might look like on a broader scale, and given what we know, this article missed the mark.The author ’s primary argument for prohibition is that “weed is unhealthy,” citing evidence...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 26, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Lachlan Mersky Source Type: blogs
Reckoning with Race and Disability
Jasmine Harris (University of Pennsylvania), Reckoning with Race and Disability, 31 Yale L. J. Forum (2021) Our national reckoning with race and inequality must include disability. Race and disability have a complicated but interconnected history. Yet discussions of our most... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 12, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Neuroscience and the Model Penal Code's Mens Rea Categories
Andreas Kuersten (Georgetown University), John D. Medaglia (University of Pennsylvania), Neuroscience and the Model Penal Code's Mens Rea Categories, 71 Duke L. J. (forthcoming): This Essay addresses recent research and commentary regarding the potential contributions of cognitive neuroscience to law.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 2, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Can ’t Buy Happiness? Research On Money, Digested
This article also appears in the summer issue of The Psychologist magazine.
Emma Young (@EmmaELYoung) is a staff writer at BPS Research Digest (Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST)
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Money Source Type: blogs
What Regulators Can Learn from Global Health Governance
Cary Coglianese (University of Pennsylvania), What Regulators Can Learn from Global Health Governance, 16 Glob. Health Governance 1 (2021): The Great Pandemic of 2020 shows how much public health around the world depends on effective global and domestic governance. Yet... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 29, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Health Tech, Part I: Where We Are Going, Not Just How Fast We Can Get There
By MIKE MAGEE
What will be the lasting impact of the Covid 19 pandemic?
We still don’t know the answer to that question in full. But one thing that can be said with some certainty is that it has strengthened the hand of Big Tech and all things virtual. Consider the fact that within the Biden White House administration, 13 senior aides have Big Tech resumes with time spent in firms like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and more.
This pandemic-induced scrape with mortality has instigated widely varied responses ranging from existential re-awakenings to explosive entrepreneurship.
In health ca...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 25, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Biotech Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
The Road to Transport Justice: Reframing Auto Safety in the SUV Age
John Saylor (University of Pennsylvania), The Road to Transport Justice: Reframing Auto Safety in the SUV Age, Univ. of Pa. L. Rev., (Forthcoming): For the past 50 years, a singular focus on consumer protection has persistently prevented auto-safety regulators from... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 7, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Administrative Law in a Time of Crisis: Comparing National Responses to COVID-19
Cary Coglianese (University of Pennsylvania), Neysun A. Mahboubi (University of Pennsylvania), Administrative Law in a Time of Crisis: Comparing National Responses to COVID-19, 73 Admin. L. Rev. 1 (2021): Beginning in early 2020, countries around the world successively and then... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 4, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Let ’s welcome Mental Health Month (May) by appreciating our beautiful brains
Self Reflected was created over two years by a team that included neuroscientists, engineers, physicists, and students, and is a hyperdetailed representation of 500,000 neurons in a sagittal slice. Credit: Greg Dunn and Brian Edwards.
Between Thought and Expression (Cerebrum):
Greg Dunn was on his way to a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania when he realized that bringing the brain’s beauty to life was a more suitable role for him than lab work. He started in ink, inspired by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean paintings and the similarities he found in the microscopic world of neurons and the macroscopic w...
Source: SharpBrains - April 28, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning beauty Mental Health Month Microetchings neuro art neuroimaging Neurons neuroscience Neurotechnology Source Type: blogs
