MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'border'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:22:09 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5181765&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fr0cNjxl2pWc%2F By David RittgersThe controversy over the ATF’s ill-conceived scheme to “walk” guns across the border with Mexico finally resulted in the removal of one high-ranking official: Acting Director Kenneth Melson. The U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, Todd Jones, will fill the position for now. A quick review:  ATF supervisors ordered agents to facilitate firearm sales to known or suspected “straw buyers” that intended to move the guns across the border and give them to drug cartels. Gun dealers in the U.S. reported the suspicious transactions to the ATF, expecting to cooperate in apprehending the gunrunners. As it turns out, the suspect buyers had disqualifying conditions that should have shown up in federally mandated instant background checks…but didn’t. The firearms trafficked acro... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5181765 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:24:18 +0100 5181765 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4899858&cid=t_151792_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2011%2F06%2F03%2Ftunisia%2F Shousha camp, Tunisia – May 2011 Hundreds of thousands of refugees have passed through Shousha camp since the start of the Libyan conflict, but some 4,000 people – mainly sub-Saharan Africans – cannot be repatriated due to the situation in their country of origin and face an uncertain future. Since early March, MSF has been running a mental health programme for people who have fled the conflict in Libya, giving over 9,000 mental health consultations. Many people have had traumatic experiences, either witnessing or directly experiencing violence in the course of their escape from Libya. In addition, thousands of sub-Saharan African refugees are survivors of persecution and ill-treatment that took place in Libya prior to the conflict. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4899858 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:49:03 +0100 4899858 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4841430&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FIEQtOIOuKS4%2F By Daniel GriswoldCredit: Chiapas state government website Authorities in Mexico intercepted two semi-trucks on Tuesday containing more than 500 migrants being smuggled across the border from Guatemala and presumably headed for the United States. An x-ray of one of the trucks that revealed the migrants struck me for its resemblance to those 18th century woodcarvings of slave ships crossing the Atlantic. That analogy shouldn’t be taken too far, of course. According to the news reports, the migrants voluntarily paid $7,000 each for the chance to be smuggled into the United States. But like the slave ships, the conditions in the trucks were horrific, putting the lives of the men, women and some children in real danger. People across the spectrum will try to make hay from this, but to me it ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4841430 Thu, 19 May 2011 18:48:27 +0100 4841430 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4517209&cid=t_151792_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F24567879%2F0%2Fneuromarketing%7EBorder-Bias-How-to-Beat-It.htm When we lived in Indiana, our first house was quite ordinary but had one feature some found a little odd: one edge of our little lot was the Michigan state line. An errant frisbee throw required one to retrieve the disc from another state. There was absolutely nothing to distinguish that lot line from any [...] CommentsCommentsRelated StoriesDoes Paper Outweigh Digital?Seating Secret: How To Soften Up Your ProspectsThe Last Name Effect: Why Zimmerman is Impatient (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4517209 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:54:14 +0100 4517209 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4411507&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fxdrsv6IonIM%2F By Jim HarperIn response to civil unrest, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. According to the blog post at the link just above, Egypt’s four main ISPs have cut off their connections to the outside world. Specifically, their “BGP routes were withdrawn.” The Border Gateway Protocol is what most Internet service providers use to establish routing between one another, so that Internet traffic flows among them. An attack on BGP is one of few potential sources of global shock cited by an OECD report I noted here the other day. The report almost certainly imagined a technical attack by rogue actors but, assuming current reporting to be true, the source of this attack is a government exerci... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4411507 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:53:04 +0100 4411507 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4399500&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FP8LrZTmuJoU%2F By Jason KuznickiFrom a press release by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: [A] U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent… was fired for saying in a casual conversation that legalizing and regulating drugs would help stop cartel violence along the southern border with Mexico. After sharing his views with a colleague, the fired agent, Bryan Gonzalez, received a letter of termination stating that his comments are “contrary to the core characteristics of Border Patrol Agents, which are patriotism, dedication, and espirit [sic] de corps.” Last week, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, Gonzalez filed a lawsuit seeking damages. I know very little about employment law and have no idea whether the agent has a case. But just consider that even som... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4399500 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:15:02 +0100 4399500 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3920818&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fay4G6Wp58_Y%2F By Jim HarperIn the sumer of 1992, I lived and studied in Prague. I was keen on seeing life in Eastern Europe after the end of Soviet domination. It was invigorating to think that my local law professor headed over the Vltava River in the afternoons to work on the new constitution in the Prague Castle. It was fascinating to learn of the “lustration” process by which participants in Soviet-era wrongs were penalized but not ostracized. Out of habit, no Czechs ever talked on the subway. Americans did. There were other reminders of the old order. My overnight train to Katowice, Poland, from which I planned a connection to Krakow, stopped in the middle of nowhere. In the pitch black night, the sound of border guards throwing open train compartments and making demands in a foreign t... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3920818 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:42:58 +0100 3920818 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3858141&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTqwbOHfkRQ0%2F By Daniel GriswoldA $600-million bill to enhance border enforcement has hit a temporary snag in the Senate, but it is almost inevitable, with an election only a few months away, that Congress and the president will spend yet more money trying to enforce our unworkable immigration laws. “Getting control of the border” is the buzz phrase of the day for politicians in both parties, from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Never mind that apprehensions are down sharply along our Southwest border with Mexico, mostly I suspect because of the lack of robust job creation in the unstimulated Obama economy. Meanwhile, since the early 1990s, spending on border enforcement has increased more than 700 percent, and the number of agents along the border has increased five-fold, f... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3858141 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:36:28 +0100 3858141 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3808822&cid=t_151792_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2010%2F08%2F02%2Farizona-mexico-border-2020%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on Politics Daily. Arizona-Mexico Border, 2020. Filed under: Politics Daily Tagged: arizona, border, comics, humor, illegal immigrants, immigration, mexico, political cartoon (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3808822 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:51:37 +0100 3808822 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3772183&cid=t_151792_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F07%2Fappendix-rupture%2F In rupture or perforated appendicitis, the most common location is the antimesenteric border of the middle third because this area has the most anatomically deficient blood supply. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3772183 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:00:21 +0100 3772183 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3679750&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FXsYCxScVoto%2F By David BoazDespite the claims of immigration opponents such as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, the rate of violent crime at the border and across Arizona has been dropping in the past few years, the New York Times reports — a fact you could have read here at Cato@Liberty back on April 27 and May 25. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3679750 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:44:27 +0100 3679750 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3603573&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FSA6hCAPXJyA%2F By David RittgersPresident Obama is sending 1,200 National Guard troops to the border with Mexico. This should not be viewed as an innovative solution; Bush sent 1,600 troops to the border under parallel circumstances in 2002. As Ilya Shapiro recently wrote, sending some Guardsmen is no substitute for substantive immigration policy reform. The National Guard, and the military generally, should not be seen as the go-to solution for domestic problems. Certainly the role they will play on the border will not be as offensive as policing the streets of an Alabama town after a mass shooting (which the Department of Defense found was a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, but declined to pursue charges) or using a city in Iowa as a rehearsal site for cordon-and-search operations looking for weap... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3603573 Thu, 27 May 2010 02:13:47 +0100 3603573 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3529984&cid=t_151792_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2010%2F05%2F03%2Fusa-to-mexico-the-grass-is-always-greener%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. USA to Mexico: The Grass Is Always Greener. Filed under: Politics Daily Tagged: arizona, border, chaos theory, illegal immigrants, immigration, mexico, papers please, political cartoon (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3529984 Mon, 03 May 2010 17:01:56 +0100 3529984 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3505099&cid=t_151792_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2010%2F04%2F25%2Fimmigration-arizona-cracks-down-what-if-theyre-wrong%2F My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up. Immigration: Arizona Cracks Down (What If They’re Wrong?) In memory of the women of Juarez who disappeared. As a native Texan who grew up around immigrants and believes they are the hope of our country, I’m appalled by this law. I understand the frustration of Arizonans, but as a nation we need to recognize the war taking place on our southern border. We can’t “wish away” organized crime. America had it in the 1930s, and Mexico has it now. It’s real, it’s powerful, and innocent people are rightfully terrified. America likes to think of itself as a civilized and generous nation. If that’s what we are, we should give Mexicans a legal way to immigrate quickly in massive numbers — with federal help to ... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3505099 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:26:19 +0100 3505099 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3056617&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FP1wbE-cyLCA%2F That is one of the conclusions in my new paper, “Made on Earth: How Global Economic Integration Renders Trade Policy Obsolete.” For hundreds of years, trade policy has been premised on the assumptions that exports are good, imports are bad, and the interests of domestic producers are tantamount to the “national interest.” Though that mercantilist worldview has never been accurate, its persistence as a pillar of trade policy into the 21st century is especially confounding given the emergence and proliferation of disaggregated production processes, transnational supply chains, and cross-border investment. Those trends have blurred any meaningful distinctions between “our” producers and “their” producers and speak to a long chain of interdepende... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3056617 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:57:28 +0100 3056617 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984783&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fxa6w9YSpjHE%2F I expected and got some pushback about my post comparing the Berlin Wall to the wall along our southern border. Happily, it was more civil than the reactions I often get when I talk about immigration and free movement of people. One fair comment focused on the key distinction between the Berlin Wall and our border wall: the direction the guards were facing. From the perspective of the state, it’s easy to conceive of border guards facing “in” or “out”—and those facing in suggest much worse than those facing out. But from the perspective of the individual, what matters is whether or not the border guards are facing you. Our border wall keeps Mexicans and Central Americans from freedom and a better life precisely the way the Berlin Wall did East Ge... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2984783 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:25:34 +0100 2984783 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2973903&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F57aEbZfmhEA%2F On his personal blog, Bottom-Up, Cato adjunct scholar Timothy B. Lee compares the Berlin Wall to the wall along the southern border of the United States. There are differences, of course, but important similarities too. [I]t’s jarring that less than 20 years after one Republican president gave a stirring speech about the barbarity of erecting a wall to trap millions of people in a country they wanted to leave, another Republican president signed legislation to do just that. Conservatives, of course, bristle at analogies between East Germany’s wall and our own, but they seem unable to explain how they actually differ. Judging by its ‘wall’ policies, the United States appears to value the freedom of Europeans more than Americans. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2973903 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:51:05 +0100 2973903 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2800369&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPXaZmmp6wYQ%2F Item: The Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, a group of concerned scholars and authors who work on international security and U.S. foreign policy, have issued an open letter to President Obama warning him not to expand U.S. involvement in that country.  (Full disclosure: I was a signatory.)  The list of signatories includes many of the scholars who urged President Bush not to invade Iraq.  Politico was the first to run the story: see here. Item: Via Michael Cohen, former CIA counterterrorism honcho Paul Pillar takes to the pages of the Washington Post to think through the concept of “safe havens” in Afghanistan.  His conclusion? Among the many parallels being offered between Afghanistan and the Vietnam War, one of the most disturbing concerns inadequate examination o... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2800369 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:44:15 +0100 2800369 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2788509&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FznpyTnlvQzw%2F Jack of all trades and master of none: What happens when the government gets so big that it fails to fulfill its most important role. The hard truth about end-of-life care in America. If current trends continue, the U.S. government will soon spend a greater portion of GDP on Medicare and Medicaid than Canada now spends on its entire single-payer government-run system. Here’s a way to fix that. How about a little honesty from time to time in the tobacco policy debate? More drug-related chaos along the Mexican border. Go North Young Man! Will Wilkinson becomes “forever Canadian.” (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2788509 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:34:15 +0100 2788509 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2751883&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FfLCN5LEtKac%2F Conservative columnist George Will wants out of the war in Afghanistan.  And his recommendation is getting some notice.  Reports Mike Allen in Politico: George F. Will, the elite conservative commentator, is calling for U.S. ground troops to leave Afghanistan in his latest column. “[F]orces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small, potent special forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters,” Will writes. President Obama ordered a total of 21,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan in February and March, and casualties have mounted as the forces began confronting the Tali... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2751883 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:37:06 +0100 2751883 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473890&cid=t_151792_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2Fiz7BsoGHRsU%2F In this ultra-modern, health-conscious world, one would not have thought this to happen. But the World Health Organization has just declared a swine flu pandemic has begun. WHO declares Swine Flu Global Pandemic, 11 June 2009. Image: Newscom Although the WHO declared the danger as “moderate severity”, the agency stressed that the threat of the H1N1 virus needs to be taken seriously, as “the virus is now unstoppable.” The A(H1N1) virus is a combination of three viruses – human, swine and avian, and that made it particularly dangerous to humans as there is no immunity, nor vaccine (to date), to this strain. UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES As of June11, there are 28,774 people infected by the A(H1N1), and 144 have died. Most of those infected rapidly recovered, and did not need medical treat... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473890 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:11:05 +0100 2473890 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2416797&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FESn0WO91tD0%2F The New York Times writes up the revelation that Pakistan is rapidly expanding its nuclear weapons arsenal.  Congressmen and Senators, we’re told, are worried that US military aid might be diverted to this purpose. Two points here. 1. Insofar as we are giving money to Pakistan, it probably doesn’t matter much if we restrict it to our priorities. Money is fungible — by funding something Pakistan might have paid for itself, we free its funds for other priorities. Maybe it’s the case that the Pakistanis view aid that US gives them for counterinsurgency and counterterrorism capability as purely wasteful — and therefore wouldn’t spend a dime if we didn’t provide it. But probably they would have bought much of this capability if we didn’t, a... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2416797 Mon, 18 May 2009 17:44:41 +0100 2416797 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2364918&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fwf8wiFjD-Cw%2F Oh, the war in Afghanistan. The more I learn, the more I’m convinced that we need to get out. As I described the situation to my Cato colleague Chris Preble, for lack of a better analogy, the Afghanistan–Pakistan border is like a balloon: pushing down on one side forces elements to move to another — it doesn’t eliminate the threat. The fate of Pakistan — a nuclear-armed Muslim-majority country plagued by a powerful jihadist insurgency — will matter more to regional and global stability than economic and political developments in Afghanistan. But if our attempts to stabilize Afghanistan destabilize Pakistan, where does that leave us? Like A.I.G., is Afghanistan too big to fail? No. President Obama earlier this month issued a wide-ranging strategic review of the war and ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2364918 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:22:32 +0100 2364918 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=764199&cid=t_151792_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F28%2Fsally-the-fabulous-hypo-detecting-dog%2F Filed under: Type 1, Research, Support, Complications, PersonalitiesOn the 18th of July I blogged about a study that aims to explain how dogs are able to detect approaching hypoglycemic episodes in diabetic humans. Well, reader Margaret from Cumbria, in the UK, posted a comment about her dog, Sally, who is one of these amazing hypo-detecting dogs. I asked Margaret to tell us more and she obliged. Here is Sally's story:Sally is a thirteen and a half-year-old Border Collie mix who lives with human "parents" Margaret and Alan, and canine buddy Poppy, who is a Cocker Spaniel. That's Sally (right) and Poppy (left) in the picture. Margaret and Alan adopted Sally from an animal shelter when she was just a tiny pup. Little did they know that Sally came complete with a special gift: she knows when ... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=764199 Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 764199 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=692472&cid=t_151792_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F127333236%2F4_tips_on_motivation_from_2_co.html We know more the motivated brain, and about motivation as the key to quality work. But what inspires some people more than others? More importantly – how do successful people sustain personal prompts, long after others give up? Yesterday I saw unique motivation in Killarney, Ireland, as two border collies raced up and down the side of a steep hill to round up several brands of sheep. It dawned on me that motivation is not a magical instinct - but it can be learned by any who apply a few tactics. These dogs showed how it works. Interestingly, no rewards go with their training and each race for the sheep also comes without treats. Yet an inner motivation to round up sheep showed an amazing precision. Here’s my question -- why do border collies maintain such focus and en... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=692472 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:59:55 +0100 692472