PROP s Disproportionate Influence on U.S. Opioid Policy: The Harms of Intended Consequences
ConclusionDespite being turned back from an effort to bluntly reduce opioid prescribing by the FDA in 2013 based on a lack of scientific evidence for its position (17,18), PROP has had a disproportionate effect on opioid policy in the Untied States for almost a decade. PROP found a willing federal regulatory partner in the CDC, and while PROP may not have secretly written the 2016 CDC Pain Guidelines (75), they certainly enjoyed disproportionate representation on CDCs review panels and Core Expert Group (23-25) in a process that lacked transparency (22, 23, 26, 27). When the CDC admitted that its Pain Guideline had been...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - May 3, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC health policy kollas opioids pain prop Source Type: blogs
I'' m just going to rip off the American Constitution Society on this one
This is really off topic for this blog, but it ' s important to continue to emphasize that a good percentage of the population exists in an alternate, Faux News-induced non-reality. Robert Mueller, unfortunately, had the highly legalistic attitude that if he couldn ' t indict, he shouldn ' t make any judgment. Since he believed that it was not possible to indict a sitting president, he didn ' t draw conclusions about Individual One. This is unfortunate because -- along with AG Barr ' s initial misrepresentation of the report -- it allowed Faux News and others in the alternate reality sphere to claim that the report exonera...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 29, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - April 27, 2021.
----- This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters. I will also try to highlight ADHA Propaganda when I come upon it. Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! Its pretty sad! Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon. ---...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
I want to say one word to you, just one word:
Plastics. That was famous advice given to Dustin Hoffman ' s character in The Graduate, and if we were only concerned about Benjamin Braddock ' s financial future, it was actually excellent advice. But the recent discussion in the comments prompted me to hoist the issue to the front page. The problem of plastic waste is already catastrophic, and it ' s on track to get worse. There are lots of good sources about this, including the Wikipedia article, but look out: there are industry front groups that are pretending to want to do something about it but they ' re largely fraudulent. As commenters have noted, recycl...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 16, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How To Simplify Your Life And Be Happy
Conclusion
These are some of the proven tips you can use to simplify your life.
But don't just read this article and go about your way.
Write down three things that you can start this week.
Let me know what you're going to try - I'd love to hear about it.
And what are your favorite rules for living a more simple life?
Brooks is an entrepreneur, sponge, father, husband, & follower of the golden rule. He’s also addicted to starting new businesses and any food that includes chocolate and peanut butter. He’s a firm believer in creating multiple streams of income and creates conten...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: conklbm Tags: confidence featured motivation philosophy self-improvement courage pickthebrain self improvement simple simplicity Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Change of command
In Deuteronomy 31, the passing of leadership from Moses to Joshua begins. There ' s a lot of repetition of the prophecy of the conquest of the promised land, followed by apostasy and Yahweh temporarily abandoning the people. Then there ' s a lot of business about writing down the law -- again, not clear if it ' s the whole of the law as given in Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy, or some excerpt. Finally, God has Moses write a song, but we don ' t get to read the lyrics until the next chapter. Unfortunately, the music is not supplied, and we don ' t know much about the music of that culture.According to Wikipedia:The earli...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 3, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Top 6 Crowdsourcing Examples In Digital Health
During your school years, you might have encountered several instances where your teacher laid out a task or asked a question, and asked you and your classmates to come up with an answer or solution. This “method” somewhat exemplifies crowdsourcing, albeit in analogue form. In essence, the term refers to the act of gathering information or input into a task from a large group of people; or simply, “outsourcing work to the crowd” as the Wired editors who coined the term in 2005 described it.
However, one must not confuse crowdsourcing with crowdfunding. The latter involves raising relatively small amounts of fu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 3D Printing Biotechnology Digital Health Research E-Patients Personalized Medicine Telemedicine & Smartphones aids crowdsourcing fda artificial pancreas 3d printed vaccination covid19 immunity passport gaming Foldi Source Type: blogs
A Brief History of ‘Deep Deplatforming’
Will DuffieldOver the past two weeks, a host of internet infrastructure providers have withdrawn service from websites associated with or used by the far-right. Parler, a Twitter alternative popular among Trump supporters, was quickly removed from the Apple and Google app stores before being dropped by its web host, Amazon. This decision knocked Parler ’s website offline and prompted a new wave of concerns about the power of technology companies to curtail speech. While infrastructural deplatforming is not unprecedented, the current cascade of refusals is broader and more politically salient than past episodes. The momen...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 22, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Will Duffield Source Type: blogs
What If Healthcare Was Like Wikipedia?
By KIM BELLARD
Last week I wrote about, well, how awful social media has become, so this week it’s nice to write about pretty much the opposite: Wikipedia turned twenty last Friday (January 15).
In person years that’s not even old enough to buy alcohol, but in Internet years that makes it one of the grand old masters, like Google or Amazon. Wikipedia is one of the most visited Internet destinations, with its 55+ million articles, in 300+ languages, getting some 10b+ views per month.
It is something that, by all rights, shouldn’t exist, much less be successful. A non-profit, volunt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Wikipedia Source Type: blogs
Happy 20th Anniversary, Wikipedia!
Ryan BourneToday marks the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia ’s website going live. The online, collaboratively sourced encyclopedia is one of the internet’s biggest success stories, but one that, on the face of it, conventional economic analysis would suggest was the least plausible.The free, volunteer ‐edited site today hosts 55 million articles in 300 languages, including 6.2 million individual content pages in English that have been subject to almost 100 million edits. TheWikipedia page about Wikipedia itself cites articles claiming it is the 13th most popular site on the internet, with 1.7 billion unique visitors...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
The Great Transformation, cont.
So in our last installment, I showed a bit of the Communist Manifesto and how Marx and Engels viewed the emergence of capitalism. Polaynyi, writing 100 years later, had a longer and somewhat different perspective. A central point, to him, which Marx and Engels don ' t much note, is that in pre-modern societies, most people had limited interaction with markets as we understand them -- systems of capital accumulation and exchange facilitated by money. To be sure, money and markets have existed since ancient times, and while they were of varying importance at different times and places for the most part they were second...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 23, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Great Transformation
This is the title of a book published in 1944 by the Hungarian-American political economist Karl Polanyi. It is widely considered to be an important work in political economy, so read it if you can.But the Wikipedia summary actually isn ' t bad. Polanyi addresses many of the problems and issues that concerned Karl Marx, but with 100 years of added perspective, including of course the experience of actually existing Communism. I ' m going to run a trick play here and quote from the Communist Manifesto, which was first published in 1848. (The wordsmithing was actually mostly by Friedrich Engels, who was a better commun...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 21, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Paleolithic War
As I say, we don ' t actually know, but here ' s the Wikipedia article, for what it ' s worth.Their conclusion is that systematic warfare was exceedingly rare prior to the neolithic and associated sedentism. Could be wrong. Raymond believes that this period of " Paleolithic warlessness " persisted until well after the appearance ofHomo sapiens some 315,000 years ago, ending only at the occurrence of economic and social shifts associated withsedentism, when new conditions incentivized organized raiding of settlements.[5][6]Of the manycave paintings of the Upper Paleolithic, none depicts people attacking other people ex...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 17, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
On conservatism
Continuing my self-revelation, as it were, I will discuss my personal feelings about " conservatism. " That means different things to different people, and exactly what conservatives believe or espouse necessarily varies somewhat by time and place. Here ' s how Wikipedia defines it (which is quite consistent with dictionary definitions.)Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization. The central tenets of conservatism include tradition, hierarchy, and authority, as established in respective cultures, as well as property rights. If ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 2, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Year of Content Moderation and Section 230
Matthew Feeney andWill DuffieldMany Americans will remember 2020 as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Trump v. Biden presidential election campaigns. As COVID-19 spread and the election came closer, millions of Americans took to online platforms to express their opinions, theories, and stories and to seek information. Platforms were put in the unenviable position of developing content moderation policies related to the pandemic and election season, trying to halt the spread of potentially life ‐threatening medical misinformation and political conspiracy theories.These efforts made “Big Tech” content modera...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney, Will Duffield Source Type: blogs
