Economic Forecasts Are Fiction
TheWall Street Journalreports:ECB economists have cut their economic growth forecast for 2019 to 1.1% from the 1.7% they had expected in December. The European Central Bank has decided that just three months ago it was overestimating growth by 55 percent. That is a big error for growth not years ahead but immediately ahead.Media reports sometimes treat central bankers and other government experts as seers, but in predicting the future they seem quite useless. The ECBemploys more than 2,500 presumably high-paid officials with high-tech models, and they can ’t project accurately a few months ahead.In his book examining g...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 8, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Training Your Mind with Meditation
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“Meditation is a science, the systematic process of training the mind.” – John Yates, Ph.D.
By sophomore year of high school, it had become clear that my mind was completely out of control. After a series of car crashes resulting from my own distraction and declining grades in school, I was promptly diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and prescribed several medications. This came on top of...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: liammccl Tags: featured meditation self improvement adhd health pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Senator Hawley ’s Apostasy and the Substantive Due Process Problem
A week or so ago, the nomination of George Mason Law ’sNeomi Rao to fill Justice Brett Kavanaugh ’s seat on the D.C. Circuit ran into someunexpected headwinds when Missouri ’s freshman Republican senator, 39-year-old Josh Hawley, raised several concerns about her views, all centered around his opposition to abortion. Fearing that the nomination might fail in committee, theWall Street Journal’s editorial board took the extraordinary step last week of running notone buttwo house editorials questioning Senator Hawley ’s “judgment.” In the end, the senator came around. On Thursday, Prof. Rao, since July 2017 the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 6, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Roger Pilon Source Type: blogs
China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American (Yale) Expertise - from a Yale scientist sadly all too familiar to this author
You saw it here on Healthcare Renewal first.In 2005 and 2007 I ' d written the posts:"Academic abuses in biomedicine vs. Indigenous Peoples: The Genographic Project" (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/09/academic-abuses-in-biomedicine-vs.html)and"Informed consent, exploitation and developing a SNP panel for forensic identification of individuals" (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/07/informed-consent-and-developing-snp.html)respectively.The theme of these posts was that genetics research (especially that centering on profiling) by unscrupulous scientists could have unforeseen, adverse (if not devastating) consequences to...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 25, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: Allele Frequency Database China genetics Kelsang Dolma Kenneth Kidd Uighurs Yale Yale Daily News Source Type: blogs
Failing Healthcare ’ s ‘ Free Market ’ Experiment in US: Single Payer to the Rescue?
This article originally appeared on LinkedIn here. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 19, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Politics ACA Health insurance Khurram Nasir Single payer Source Type: blogs
People Who Are Most Fearful Of Genetically Modified Foods Think They Know The Most About Them, But Actually Know The Least
via Fernbach et al, 2019
By Jesse Singal
There are few subjects where a larger gap exists between public opinion and expert opinion than people’s opinions on foods, like corn or wheat, that have been genetically manipulated to, for example, increase crop yields or bolster pest-resistance. Experts generally view so-called GM foods as totally safe to consume, while the public is suspicious of them — and this divide is massive. One Pew Research Center survey found that just 37 per cent of the American public believed GM foods are safe to eat, compared with 88 per cent of members of the American Association for the Advanc...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Decision making Educational Political Source Type: blogs
Psychologists find that adults take girls' pain less seriously
From Science Daily 01/25/19Gender stereotypes can hurt children -- quite literally. When asked to assess how much pain a child is experiencing based on the observation of identical reactions to a finger-stick, American adults believe boys to be in more pain than girls, according to a new Yale study in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. The researchers attribute this downgrading of the pain of girls and/or upgrading of the pain of boys to culturally ingrained, and scientifically unproven, myths like "boys are more stoic" or "girls are more emotive."For moreclick here. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - February 3, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Improving Healthcare Efficiency with Incentives: Interview with Ben Kraus, CEO of Stellar Health
We present simple reminders to the provider at the point-of-care. For example: “There are two things that you really need to do for this patient today, based on their history.” It simplifies everything and prioritizes the actions that contribute to a healthier patient in the long-run. Trying to use an EHR to do this doesn’t work because EHRs were designed to serve as a complete clinical record of a patient, which is cavernous and lacks actionability. EHRs were not designed to align payor and providers incentives and create a prioritization framework to maximize health outcomes.
There are innovative companies out th...
Source: Medgadget - January 23, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Mohammad Saleh Tags: Exclusive Informatics Medicine Public Health Society Source Type: blogs
M***Why " Virtual Assistants " Cannot Remove EHR Pain Points
In a recent note, I commented on the emergence of"virtual scribes" (see:Virtual Scribe Vendors Remotely Generate EHR Notes and Coding). This hospital service consists of having the treating physician dictate the details of a patent office encounter. At a later time, a transcriptionist working for a virtual scribe company remotely enters the essential data into the hospital EHR. This is by way of contrast with the original concept of virtual scribes when they were present in the examining room with the doctor and patient and performed all of the EHR keyboard entries. It should not some as a surprise that the...
Source: Lab Soft News - January 21, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Source Type: blogs
Why " Virtual Assistants " Won't Remove EHR Pain Points Quickly
In a recent note, I commented on the emergence of"virtual scribes" (see:Virtual Scribe Vendors Remotely Generate EHR Notes and Coding). This is hospital service with physicians dictating the details of a patient office encounter. At a later time, a remote transcriptionist employed by a virtual scribe company enters the essential dictated data into the hospital EHR. These remote transcriptionists have access to the hospital EHR for this data entry. This is in contrast with the original and continuing idea of EHR scribes who are physically present in the examining room with the doctor and patient and perform ...
Source: Lab Soft News - January 21, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Medical Research Source Type: blogs
Commissioning Healthcare Policy: Hospital Readmission and Its Price Tag
By ANISH KOKA MD
The message comes in over the office slack line at 1:05 pm. There are four patients in rooms, one new, 3 patients in the waiting room. Really, not an ideal time to deal with this particular message.
“Kathy the home care nurse for Mrs. C called and said her weight yesterday was 185, today it is 194, she has +4 pitting edema, heart rate 120, BP 140/70 standing, 120/64 sitting”
I know Mrs. C well. She has severe COPD from smoking for 45 of the last 55 years. Every breath looks like an effort because it is. The worst part of it all is that Mrs. C just returned home from the hospital just days ago.
The yo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Hospitals Medicare Anish Koka hospital readmissions HRRP MedPAC Source Type: blogs
Interfering in the Interaction between Amyloid- β and Prion Protein as a Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease
The damage of Alzheimer's disease mediated by aggregation of amyloid-β and tau protein deposits isn't so much due to the aggregates, but rather the surrounding halo of complex interactions and related proteins. One of those thought to be important is between oligomeric amyloid-β and cellular prion protein, the latter of which is also of note in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Researchers here sought to interfere in this interaction, and achieved interesting results, at least in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. The usual caveats apply, in that Alzheimer's mouse models are highly artificial constructs, since ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 4, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
I recently read the book summary of Big Mistakes by Michael Batnick. The book has an interesting subtitle: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments. Interesting combination, isn’t it? It contains story after story of how very smart people made bad decisions in investing.
But how could that happen? How could these smart people make bad decisions?
In essence, what happened was that they failed to manage their risks. They didn’t prepare themselves for the worst things that could happen. They were overconfident, thinking that good times would last forever. So, when the opposite happened, they lost a lot and sometimes...
Source: Life Optimizer - January 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Thinking Source Type: blogs
Now John Bargh ’s Famous Hot-Coffee Study Has Failed To Replicate
By Jesse Singal
If you Google “holding a warm cup of coffee can” you’ll get a handful of results all telling the same story based on social priming research (essentially the study of how subtle cues affect human thoughts and behavior). “Whether a person is holding a warm cup of coffee can influence his or her views of other people, and a person who has experienced rejection may begin to feel cold,” notes a New York Times blog post, while a Psychology Today article explains that research shows that “holding a warm cup of coffee can make you feel socially closer to those around you.”
These kind of findings are...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Replications Social Source Type: blogs
The Death of Cancer: Book Review and Reflections
By CHADI NABHAN MD, MBA, FACP
Some books draw you in based on a catchy title, a provocative book jacket, or familiarity with the author. For me, recollections of medical school primers written by the renowned lymphoma pioneer Vincent DeVita Jr. and my own path as an oncologist immediately attracted me to “The Death of Cancer.” I felt a connection to this book before even reading it and prepped myself for an optimistic message about how the cancer field is moving forward. Did I get what I bargained for?
Co-authored with his daughter, Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, DeVita brings us back decades ago to when he had just st...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Care Books Physicians Book Review Chadi Nabhan Chemotherapy Oncology randomized controlled trials The Death of Cancer Vincent DeVita Source Type: blogs
