How to Deal with Honduras ’ Quagmire
There are good reasons to believe that fraud took place in Honduras ’ presidential election.The Economistdid astatistical analysis of the election results and found “reasons to worry” about the integrity of the vote—although they were not conclusive. Areport from the Organization of American States Observation Mission points out “irregularities, mistakes, and systemic problems plaguing this election [that] make it difficult… to be certain about the outcome.”At the heart of the controversy is how the results of the presidential election shifted dramatically after a blackout in the release of information that l...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 6, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Juan Carlos Hidalgo Source Type: blogs
A Safer Way To Legalize Marijuana
Eight US states, the District of Columbia, and the country of Uruguay have recently legalized the recreational use of marijuana, with Canada and more US states poised to do the same. The new laws include limits on youth access, operation of motor vehicles when using, and high-volume purchases or possession. However, none of the laws consider which kinds of marijuana products should and should not be legally sold.
While we take no position on the overall desirability of marijuana legalization, we propose here that policy makers in favor of it consider only permitting the sale of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) extracts intended ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 8, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Rebecca Haffajee, Alex C. Liber and Kenneth E. Warner Tags: Featured Public Health drug policy legalization of marijuana Source Type: blogs
Anti-Paper Prophet: Comments on The Curse of Cash
ConclusionRogoff raises many other interesting issues in his response, and trying to cover them all would make this article much too lengthy. His arguments are generally sophisticated and sometimes challenging, even when I disagree with him or believe he hasn’t adequately addressed my concerns. Our most fundamental difference remains our analysis of the State. Rogoff unreflectively adopts what Harold Demsetz characte rizes as the“nirvana” approach to public policy. This makes him far more optimistic than is justified about the overall benevolence and competence of governments, particularly in developed countries. H...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 15, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Source Type: blogs
Clayton Yeutter, RIP
After a long battle with cancer, Ambassador Clayton Yeutter passed away on Saturday at the age of 86 at his home in Potomac, Maryland. With his passing, the world parts not only with a brilliant, effective, accomplished leader, but an extraordinarily generous, decent man whose enduring kindness and humble demeanor made politics and policymaking in Washington more tolerable for all involved.Clayton Yeutter had a long an illustrious career spent in both the private and public sectors, as well as in academia, but he is probably best known for his service during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.As Reagan ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 6, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit
Ten years ago, the world was a different place when it came to tobacco. Fewer than twenty developing countries in the world had even one strong tobacco control policy in place. The tobacco industry was beginning an aggressive ramping up of nefarious activities to grow their market share in vulnerable developing countries. And although advocates for tobacco control measures had a major public health victory in passing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world’s first public health treaty, little financial or technical help was available to support countries that wanted to put life-saving, proven tobacco contr...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Kelly Henning Tags: Featured Global Health Policy GrantWatch Public Health Source Type: blogs
Lighthizer Completes Trump's Protectionist Triumvirate
Former Reagan administration deputy U.S. trade representative and longtime trade-remedies attorney, Robert Lighthizer, is President-elect Trump ’schoice for United States Trade Representative. Considered in conjunction with the appointments of Peter Navarro to head the newly-created National Trade Council at the White House (my take) and Wilbur Ross at the Commerce Department (my take), Lighthizer ’s selection seems to confirm fears that U.S. trade policy is descending into darkness. At the very least, it is reasonable to assume that for the foreseeable future trade policy will be overwhelmingly enforcement-oriented,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 3, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
Ambiguities in U.S. Trade Laws Imperil Our Economy and Constitutional Order
Inyesterday ’sInvestor ’s Business Daily, Club for Growth President David McIntosh and I had a short piece on the perilous implications of President-elect Trump ’s threats to unilaterally withdraw the United States from our trade agreements or impose punitive and wide-ranging tariffs on imports. The economic effects of Trump’s promises have been explored at length (see, e.g., this new one onNAFTA and Texas), but most trade law experts are just now digesting the legal issues. What we ’re finding is, to use the technical term, a big mess that could have unforeseen economicand constitutional implications in the Age ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 29, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
A bigger signature correlates with social bravado and narcissism
By Christian Jarrett
When you sign your name, do you like to fill the available space with bold strokes or is your personal scribble a more modest mark? A group of psychologists from Uruguay, the Netherlands and Curaçao say that the answer could be a sign of your personality – from analysing the traits and signatures of 192 women and 148 men (psych students in Uruguay), they found that men and women with bigger signatures tended to score higher on “social dominance” – measured by agreement with statements like “I certainly have self confidence” and “I am not shy with strangers”...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Personality Source Type: blogs
A Roll Cloud Over Uruguay via NASA
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Source: Kidney Notes - June 12, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Could Dangerous Mandatory Vaccines Containing Aluminum Salts be Responsible for Microcephaly in Brazil?
Conclusion
There is mounting evidence to suggest that vaccinations and medications containing aluminum salts are harmful to brain development. We need to ask ourselves why a vaccination known to contain well above the recommended levels of aluminum has been passed as safe for use in pregnancy by the Brazilian Health Ministry.
For more information on the dangers of aluminum, I recommend parents read the growing number of articles, studies and peer-reviewed papers that the Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute have listed on their website.
References:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7087284
www.cdc.gov/vaccines...
Source: vactruth.com - March 1, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Logical Top Stories adjuvants Aluminum Salts Brazil Dr. Sears Microcephaly Source Type: blogs
Preventing Traveler ’s Diarrhea Can Be Surprisingly Tasty. See How I Did It.
Potato chips for Preventing Traveler’s Diarrhea? It doesn’t seem likely, but it’s a cheap and easy trick that actually works… if you do it right. And it’s FAR safer for preventing traveler’s diarrhea, than to wait until you get it and take dangerous antibiotics, such as the Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics, that are often used for the treatment of diarrhea, that can cause dangerous ‘superinfections’ such as C-Difficile Infection.
But before I tell you how to make potato chips your best friend on a trip to a foreign land, first I’ll tell you how I know it works. Since my hon...
Source: Immune Health Blog - January 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Digestive Health gut health prebiotics prevent traveler's diarrhea probiotics resistant starch travel tips Source Type: blogs
Preventing Traveler ’s Diarrhea Can Be Surprisingly Tasty. See How I Did It.
Potato chips for Preventing Traveler’s Diarrhea? It doesn’t seem likely, but it’s a cheap and easy trick that actually works… if you do it right. And it’s FAR safer for preventing traveler’s diarrhea, than to wait until you get it and take dangerous antibiotics, such as the Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics, that are often used for the treatment of diarrhea, that can cause dangerous ‘superinfections’ such as C-Difficile Infection.
But before I tell you how to make potato chips your best friend on a trip to a foreign land, first I’ll tell you how I know it works. Since my hon...
Source: Immune Health Blog - January 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Digestive Health gut health prebiotics prevent traveler's diarrhea probiotics resistant starch travel tips Source Type: blogs
Preventing Traveler’s Diarrhea Can Be Surprisingly Tasty. See How I Did It.
Potato chips for Preventing Traveler’s Diarrhea? It doesn’t seem likely, but it’s a cheap and easy trick that actually works… if you do it right. And it’s FAR safer for preventing traveler’s diarrhea, than to wait until you get it and take dangerous antibiotics, such as the Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics, that are often used for the treatment of diarrhea, that can cause dangerous ‘superinfections’ such as C-Difficile Infection.
But before I tell you how to make potato chips your best friend on a trip to a foreign land, first I’ll tell you how I know it works. Since my hon...
Source: Immune Health Blog - January 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Digestive Health gut health prebiotics prevent traveler's diarrhea probiotics resistant starch travel tips Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Trade, Health, And Tobacco Exceptionalism: The TPP Tobacco Carve-Out
Last Thursday the White House notified Congress of its intent to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the trade agreement reached in October between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim countries, not including China. The notification and release of the agreement’s text commences a lengthy period of Congressional and public review. Among the issues that will receive close attention is the so-called tobacco carve-out.
The tension between free trade and public health is both ancient and enduring. From a free-trade perspective, public health regulations often appear as barriers to trade, sometimes with good reason. Nation...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Wendy Parmet Tags: Equity and Disparities Featured Global Health Public Health free-trade investor-state dispute systems tobacco Trans-Pacific Partnership World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
