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New Massachusetts Task Force: Disabilities in Higher Ed
I am on a Task Force headed up by State Rep Tom Sannicandro and Dr. Dana Mohler-Faria, President of Bridgewater State University. The Task Force is having four hearings (the first of which was today, sorry to be late with this announcement), in different parts of Massachusetts, to hear testimony from the public about the need for and matters pertaining to the inclusion of people with developmental disabilities in Massachusetts state colleges and community colleges. Here is a press release to explain in-depth and for all upcoming hearings: Higher Education Task Force Focuses on Including Students with Disabilities Higher Ed...
Source: Susan's Blog - November 1, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

John Holland, 83
John Holland, 1995 Virologist John Holland passed away on 11 October 2013. I asked former members of his laboratory for their thoughts on his career and what he meant to them. Bert Semler For more than 35 years, John Holland was a major figure and leading contributor in the study of RNA viruses.  His early pioneering work on poliovirus was the first demonstration that the block to poliovirus growth in non-primate cells was due to the absence of specific receptors on non-susceptible cells.  This critical discovery has been a guiding beacon for many subsequent studies on virus-cell interactions.  Holland was also a centra...
Source: virology blog - November 1, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Events Information John Holland mentor quasispecies vesicular stomatitis virus viral vsv Source Type: blogs

Does Brilinta's Brilliance Beggar Belief?
The European Medicines Agency is demanding more information from AstraZeneca on its troubled heart pill Brilinta. This rounds off a tough few weeks for the firm as it comes after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) took the unusual decision to investigate the product in late October. Neither AZ nor the DOJ have disclosed the exact nature of the investigation, but analysts believe it relates to various aspects of the study that have been criticised by external researchers. This includes comments from James DiNicolantonio of Ithaca New York, and Ales Tomek of Charles University in Prague, who said in a recent paper that pa...
Source: PharmaGossip - November 8, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

How To Create Medical Research To Support Bogus Therapies, In Nine Easy Steps
Twenty years ago I started my job as ‘Professor of Complementary Medicine’ at the University of Exeter and became a full-time researcher of all matters related to alternative medicine. One issue that was discussed endlessly during these early days was the question whether alternative medicine can be investigated scientifically. There were many vociferous proponents of the view that it was too subtle, too individualised, too special for that and that it defied science in principle. Alternative medicine, they claimed, needed an alternative to science to be validated. I spent my time arguing the opposite, of course,...
Source: Better Health - July 7, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: admin Tags: Humor Quackery Exposed Research Alternative Medicine Bad Research Bogus Claims CAM Complementary And Alternative Medicine False Claims Misinformation Pseudoscience Statistics Source Type: blogs

Obama’s Immigration Executive Order – Policy Implications
Conclusion Whether this executive order is constitutional is the major question that is still unanswered.  Portions of this executive order will be unambiguously constitutional while others will skirt the line or could even cross it.  Ignoring that vital question for now and viewing the executive order in purely policy terms, it will produce positive economic effects and legalize a significant number of unlawful immigrants. [i] Amuedo-Dorantes, Bansak, and Raphael, “Gender Differences in the Labor Market: Impact of IRCA,” American Economic Review, 2007.   Rivera-Batiz, “Undocumented Workers in th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 19, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs

The Medical School as Hereditary Plutocracy - Retiring Board Chair Sanford Weill of Cornell Weill Medical School Names His Own Daughter as New Chair
As I have written before, sometimes you just could not have made this stuff up.The Retiring Board Chairman Appoints His Own Daughter to Succeed Him The most even handed reporting on this story was in Inside Higher Ed,Leadership of the board that oversees Cornell University’s medical college is passing from father to daughter, an unusual transition of power for a higher education board.Weill Cornell Medical College’s Board of Overseers has been chaired for the past two decades by its namesake and major donor, Sandy Weill, the former CEO of Citigroup.His daughter, Jessica Bibliowicz, is now set to take over Weill's ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: boards of trustees Citigroup finance medical schools Weill Cornell Medical College You heard it here first Source Type: blogs

Finland to Break New Ground with Basic Income Experiment
Despite some of the breathless headlines, Finland is not adopting a national universal basic income. That is, Finland is not scrapping the existing welfare system and distributing the same cash benefit to every adult citizen without additional strings or eligibility criteria. Finland is moving forward with one of the most extensive and rigorous basic income experiments in decades, which could help answer some of the lingering questions surrounding the basic income. The failures of the current system are well documented, but there are concerns about costs and potential work disincentives with a basic income. Finland’s exp...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 9, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs

Generic Management of Health Care Non-Profits, Brought to You by Leaders of (Sometimes Failed, or Bailed Out) Finance on the Board?
Introduction - Managerialism  We have frequently posted about what we have called generic management, the manager's coup d'etat, and mission-hostile management. Managerialism wraps these concepts up into a single package.  The idea is that all organizations, including health care organizations, ought to be run people with generic management training and background, not necessarily by people with specific backgrounds or training in the organizations' areas of operation.  Thus, for example, hospitals ought to be run by MBAs, not doctors, nurses, or public health experts.  Furthermore, all organizations ou...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 7, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: boards of trustees finance generic management generic managers managerialism Source Type: blogs

Why We Stopped Participating In US News’ Medical School Rankings
Every spring, the snows recede, birds migrate north, and U.S. News & World Report releases its annual “Best Graduate Schools” rankings. The issue is a predictable hit with prospective graduate students and anxious parents who want to make sure their child gets into the “right” school. Universities that do well amplify the buzz by boasting of their ranking in ads, articles, and campus banners. The hoopla ensures that the issue is an annual moneymaker for the magazine. Much of the data U.S. News uses to generate its rankings is provided by the schools themselves. A few months ago, when we received the magazine’...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 6, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Arthur Kellermann and Charles Rice Tags: Equity and Disparities Featured Health Professionals Quality Graduate medical education Liaison Committee on Medical Education medical school rankings Physicians Uniformed Services University of the Health Services US News & World report Source Type: blogs

Bad Apple or Bad Orchard? - A Narrative of Alleged Individual Research Misconduct that Sidestepped the Pharmaceutical Corporate Context
Conclusion So it seems that in this case a study which may not have been conducted according to research standards was likely a pharmaceutical sponsored, designed, and controlled Phase II trial done as part of an effort to seek approval for a new drug.  Hence this case was not only about allegations of individual research misconduct, but about yet more problems with the implementation of commercially controlled human experiments designed to ultimately further marketing as well as science.  Yet none of the public discussion so far of this case was about whether Pfizer had any responsibilities to assure the quality...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 7, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect clinical research integrity clinical trials New York University Pfizer pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs

E-Verify Gaining Ground in Texas
Texas State Senator Charles Schwertner (R-Georgetown) recently filedSB 23, a bill that would put into statute Governor RickPerry ’sexecutive order mandating E-Verify for all state contractors and force all state contracts to include a paragraph specifying that they must participate in the program. There ’s a good faith exemption, in case the contractor receives inaccurate information from the E-Verify system (false confirmations that later come to light).SB 23 adds an enforcement mechanism that Governor Perry ’s executive orderlacked. Under the proposed law, a contractor ’s failure to use E-Verify would bar them f...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs

Executive Functions in Health and Disease: New book to help integrate Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology
__________ Neuroscience used to be the monopoly of a few elite universities located in a handful of countries. Neuropsychology used to be a quaint niche discipline relatively unconnected to the larger world of neuroscience and content in its methods with paper-and-pencil tests. Neuroscience itself was relatively unconcerned with higher-order cognition, and the very term “cognitive neuroscience” was often met with rolled eyes by scientists working in more established areas of brain research (a personal observation made in the 1980s and even 1990s on more than one occasion). And the interest...
Source: SharpBrains - August 8, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Professional Development Alexander-Luria clinical psychologists cognition cognitive-psychologists disease Executive-Functions frontal-lobe medical neurologists neuropsychologists Neuropsyc Source Type: blogs

Don ’t Ban H-1B Workers: They are Worth Their Weight in Innovation
Alex NowrastehThe Trump Administration is reportedly working on anexecutive order to ban the issuance of new H-1B visas. His order is expected to be issued before the end of this month. His order would be quite a negative blow to the U.S. economy and hit American economic innovation the hardest. The H-1B visa system has problems: It ’s unreasonably costly to change firms, workers are restrained from starting their own firms, and the wait times to adjust their status to a green card are absurdly long. Complete H-1B worker portability between firms, allowing workers to sponsor themselves if they start a firm...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 14, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 15th October, 2022.
This article uses the one that divides providers into groups depending on the life cycle stage the clinic is at the given moment. According to this classification, medical providers fall into three groups:BeginnersGrowing clinicsWell-established providersHealth care providers are business entities, so their life cycle, like that of any business, consists of the early stage or launch, growth and maturity. At each stage, providers have different priorities and goals, and the choice of medical software solutions should be made accordingly.Medical software for beginnersThe launch phase can be tough. At this stage, the profits ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 25: The RFC, Continued
George Selgin(This is the second installment of a three-part essay. The first part ishere.)Big Engines that Couldn ' tAlthough Hoover ' s Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was " more largely a banker ' s loan bank than anything else " (Ebersole 1933, 477), financial institutions were never the only firms eligible for its support. Railroads were an important exception from the start, though they were so mainly because financial institutions, commercial banks, and insurance companies especially, were railroads ' main investors. Thanks to New York and other state regulatory authorities ' inclusion of many railroad bond...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 20, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs