Revamping Malawian Commodity Exchanges through Import Substitution – Wheat Being First Commodity
Brian Phiri Kampanje (Blantyre International University), Revamping Malawian Commodity Exchanges through Import Substitution – Wheat Being First Commodity (2023): National Planning Commission undertook an important study on the Commodity Exchanges in Malawi in 2021 and this study used PESTLEE Analysis... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 1, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Life as a physician is sometimes like a runaway trailer
It was a hot day in Northern California, and my clothes were covered with the red dust of summer. At age 9, I couldn’t take a step on our property without grasshoppers launching themselves from the dry wheat grass. Colorful ladybugs were also out in force. I searched everywhere for a container to keep my
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Life as a physician is sometimes like a runaway trailer originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Christopher Nyte, DO Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Hit the snooze button
Thank the Lord, we ' re almost through Chronicles. Just a few more chapters to go. Jotham is mentioned very briefly in the Book of Kings, so that is not the source referred to at the end here. What is odd, however, is that the Chronicler usually refers to what appear to be two separate books, the book of the Kings of Judah and the book of the Kings of Israel. Here he refers to a single book, but it can ' t be the canonical Book of Kings because that does not include any additional detail about Jotham.Of course we get the usual absurd amounts of tribute.27 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he re...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 15, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Quotations Missing from Bartlett ’s
David BoazOverat The Dispatch (ungatedhere) I have a critique of the latest edition ofBartlett ' s Familiar Quotations. As I say,Bartlett ' sis " the gold standard of quotations, the place anyone can go to confirm a quote and see the source. " But its editors " seem far more familiar with the words of liberal, leftist, and socialist sources than those of conservatives and libertarians. "Over the past 40 years, since the rise of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, John Paul II, and even Deng Xiaoping, the world has seen a turn toward markets and economic freedom (albeit with a fall in 2020 during the pandemic lockdowns). But...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
5 Best Practices To Build A Future-Ready Digital Health Company
Transparent communication, clinically-validated technologies, and addressing real-life clinical needs might sound like no-brainer components to a digital health company since they are working in the healthcare sector. It is also a rapidly expanding one where investments were heavily channelled during the pandemic.
However, some estimate that 90% of digital health startups will go bust or be ‘acqui-hired’ within a few years of being founded. If digital health represents the future of medicine and healthcare, it is important to understand why this is the case.
We previously dissected the reasons why digital h...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Science Fiction Telemedicine & Smartphones theranos study inves Source Type: blogs
The Secret to 4x Faster Weight Loss Revealed: The Natural Supplement Found in Leeks, Wheat, Onions & More
The supplement is found naturally in many healthy foods. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Chicken with Dried Mushrooms & Tomatoes
When it comes time to figure out what to make for dinner, I love the internet as much as anyone. I usually head straight to the NY Times Cooking section, or to Epicurious, Saveur or Food 52 for ideas and inspiration. But one weekend this past year, with our Philly travel plans cancelled by an upcoming storm (there is nothing worse than the Jersey turnpike in a thunderstorm with tornado and flood warnings), I had the unexpected luxury of free time on a Saturday morning. Sitting with a cup of coffee, I opened Biba’s Taste of Italy, a cookbook whose spine I had yet to crack in the year since it had been gifted to me by ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - January 19, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Borgotaro braised Chicken Dinner party Dried mushrooms Emilia Romagna italian Make-ahead PGI Porcini recipe Stove top Tomatoes Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Xerox machine
2 Chronicles 2 is the same story as 1 Kings 5. There are some slight differences in language, which simply suggests that the chronicler was working from a different manuscript than the one that became canonized. (The title of this post is intended to be ironic because the point is, there weren ' t any copying machines, only human scribes whose copying was imprecise, whether accidentally or on purpose.) As usual, the numbers are ridiculous. The Tanakh seems to multiply everything by 10, approximately.2 [a]Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of theLord and a royal palace for himself.2 He conscripted ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 18, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Tax Increases and the Great Depression
Chris EdwardsDid tax increases deepen and extend the Great Depression?That is one topic explored in a new book by Art Laffer, Brian Domitrovic, and Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield,Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States. The authors include a discussion of federal, state, and local tax increases during the 1930s.Many economists would point to monetary policy mistakes for causing the initial slide into the Great Depression. The nation ’s money supply fellnearly 30 percent between 1930 and 1933.But Laffer and coauthors argue that the “chief cause of the Great Depression was taxation.” That is ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Explain it to me because I don't get it
Chapter 21 repeats the story of 2 Samuel 24 -- the last chapter of Samuel -- but does try to fix one obvious problem. In Samuel, God tells David to take the census, and then gets mad at him for doing it. That doesn ' t seem to make any sense, so the Chronicler has Satan tell David to take the census. There are several other discrepancies as far as the census numbers, and the number of people God kills because David took the census. (Might have been 70,000, might have been 200,00) Either way, the census numbers are ridiculous. In Samuel, there are 1.3 million soldiers in Israel and Judah, while in Chronicles there are 1.5 m...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 13, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Monstrous Driver of Higher Halloween Candy Prices
Gabriella Beaumont-SmithThe last two Halloweens looked very different amidst the COVID-19 pandemic as people wore very different types of masks. Unfortunately, this Halloween will continue to be filled with more tricks as candy prices are up13.1 percent since September last year —Hershey and Nestlereported raising prices 14 percent and 6.5 percent, respectively.While inflation is haunting many food products, candyflation could be lower if the U.S. government did not cartelize sugar. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides a sugar program to purposefully keep the price of sugar high. Figure 1 illust...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 31, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
The 26 Best Poems About Life of All Time
In today’s post I want to share timeless poems about love, happiness, death and beauty.
These are 26 of the best poems about life of all time (in my opinion).
Some from recent times. Some from several hundred years ago.
I hope you’ll find these poems as beautiful and insightful about living life, common life struggles and the fleeting nature of our existence as I have. And that at least one or a few of them will help you to understand yourself a bit better or to improve today in some way.
And if you want even more timeless inspiration then check out this post with quotes on inner peace and also this one filled with un...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - October 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Is It Revolutionary? A 6-Question Checklist To Assess Any Digital Health Announcement
The sheer amount of press releases, news articles, and corporate announcements on digital health technologies is overwhelming. You see dozens every day, and they all sound grandiose and important – obviously.
But how can you separate the wheat from the chaff? How to decide if the given report is about something important, about a technology or method that might become really significant? This is what we try to do with the team of The Medical Futurist by providing context, but the goal is that you can do it as well.
We collected a six-question checklist to help with this. The method is simple: if the answer ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Digital Health Research artificial intelligence future Medicine technology medical technology health technology med tech Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
August 04, 2022 Edition-----The war seems to grind on sadly and Pres. Biden is having a second round with COVID as unprecedented weather happens all over the US. It all feels rather like ‘the end of days’!In the UK we see an increasing chance of a third female PM being elected as the country seems to be struggling. We do need to remember however the UK remains a significant power with nuclear weapons and home-grown nuclear submarines!In OZ we have had last week working out how to progress the First Nations ‘Voice’ as we wrap up the 1st session of Parliament for the new Government. Comments welcome on how you think ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Clouded Yellow butterflies
In the summer of 2020, just after the first covid lockdown, I visited Waresley Wood, which is a few miles west of the city of Cambridge. The wood itself is good for Silver-washed Fritillary and the adjacent Brown’s Piece has plenty of Marbled White. That summer, there was a small patch of meadowland next to a maize crop where Common Blue and Brown Argus danced among clover, borage, viper’s bugloss and vetch.
Clouded Yellow butterfly Location: ///finalists.legend.exhaled
On that visit, I also spotted a couple of fast-moving and vivid butterflies chasing up and down this ad hoc meadow. They were Clouded Yellow bu...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - July 20, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
