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Avian botulism, or feeding the ducks
On a recent visit to Hillsborough Park to feed the geese, ducks and coots, we spotted some peas on the ground by the side of the lake.   We were surprised that birds ate such things, but the Canal and River Trust are recommending that people do indeed feed water birds frozen peas, or lettuce, or grain.  This story was picked up extensively in the UK media yesterday and today.But not bread.  The video in this piece from the Daily Telegraph has figures for the amount of bread that is fed to water birds.   A lot of it is not eaten by the birds, but ends up as a culture medium for microorganisms, ...
Source: Browsing - March 17, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: birds botulism Source Type: blogs

DEA 'Cold Consent' Encounters Constitute Federal Stop-and-Frisk
Adam Bates Over at Forbes, the Institute for Justice’s Nick Sibilla details a new report from the Department of Justice concerning the Drug Enforcement Administration’s practice of cold-stopping travelers at airports, bus stations, and train stations and asking to search their property looking for forfeitable assets. Federal drug agents may be racially profiling and unjustly seizing cash from travelers in the nation’s airports, bus stations and train stations. A new report released by the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice examined the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)’s contr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 20, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Adam Bates Source Type: blogs

Opinion, CIO Magazine: "The medical profession needs to get over its fear of information technology"- their complaints bogus
There comes a time when the pundits defending the status quo in the healthcare information technology sector and health IT utopianism simply need to be thoroughly and definitively refuted.This is such a time.  CIO magazine reaches the country's information technology leadership, including those in heathcare.   Hence, canards and meritless defamation of physicians can (and in my experience does) impact the attitudes and decisions of the leaders of the very technology physicians are increasingly dependent upon to deliver safe care.Ultimately, such misinformation can and does result in patient harm through bad ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 27, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: CIO magazine healthcare IT dangers healthcare IT dissatisfaction healthcare IT usability healthcare IT utopianism Source Type: blogs

Read the Inspiring ‘Questions of Existence’ Letter from the World’s Greatest Thinkers
On July 20, a consortium of scientists funded by billionaire investor Yuri Milner announced a $100 million project to scan the universe for signs of intelligent life. Milner, 53, a prescient technology investor, is also a former physicist. The endeavor, named Breakthrough Listen, is being supported by some of the world’s most well-known scientists and thinkers. As part of the announcement, the group release a letter explaining why the search matters and why it must continue. Here is the document in full. Are we alone? Now is the time to find out Who are we? A mature civilization, like a mature individual, must ask it...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - July 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matt Vella Tags: Uncategorized Innovation Innovation Prizes philanthropy Science SETI Source Type: news

A Basic Geometry Lesson - FDA’s Off-label Losses
This article provides a detailed explanation of the case, including the relevant jury instruction, an overview of the 2014 FDA Guidance document on scientific and medical publications, and possibilities for next steps for compliance officers It is a fundamental tenet of geometry that three points are needed to determine a curve. Concerning the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") and its regulation of off-label promotion versus the First Amendment, with United States v. Vascular Solutions, we now have our third point in the curve. In Vascular Solutions, the government charged both Vascular Solutions and its president, H...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 18, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

British Ship Discovered 170 Years After Its Doomed Northwest Passage Expedition
(TORONTO) — The second of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic nearly 170 years ago during a storied expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage has been found. The Arctic Research Foundation said Monday that the HMS Terror has been located by a research ship. Last seen in the 1840s while under the command of Sir John Franklin, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror have long been among the most sought-after prizes in marine archaeology and the subject of songs, poems and novels. The wreck of the Erebus was found in 2014. “Terror was found on Sept 3. It is a perfect time capsule,” said Adrian Sch...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rob Gillies / AP Tags: Uncategorized Archaeology arctic Canada Discovery United Kingdom Source Type: news

Joint SOGC-CCMG Opinion for Reproductive Genetic Carrier Screening: An Update for All Canadian Providers of Maternity and Reproductive Healthcare in the Era of Direct-to-Consumer Testing.
Authors: Wilson RD, De Bie I, Armour CM, Brown RN, Campagnolo C, Carroll JC, Okun N, Nelson T, Zwingerman R, Audibert F, Brock JA, Brown RN, Campagnolo C, Carroll JC, De Bie I, Johnson JA, Okun N, Pastruck M, Vallée-Pouliot K, Wilson RD, Zwingerman R, Armour C, Chitayat D, De Bie I, Fernandez S, Kim R, Lavoie J, Leonard N, Nelson T, Taylor S, Van Allen M, Van Karnebeek C Abstract OBJECTIVE: This guideline was written to update Canadian maternity care and reproductive healthcare providers on pre- and postconceptional reproductive carrier screening for women or couples who may be at risk of being carriers for autoso...
Source: Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada : JOGC - September 18, 2016 Category: OBGYN Tags: J Obstet Gynaecol Can Source Type: research

Want a New Job in the New Year? Tips for Finding a Federal Position
Thinking of working for the federal government as an audiologist or speech-language pathologist? You can usually find an appealing option depending on the age group you want to treat, your desire to move around and your ability to wait for long periods of time—or not—to find out if you got the job. Nearly all openings for audiologists and SLPs support our military members and their families. Author’s note: The military has active audiologists but not SLPs, so civilian audiologists can get jobs with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. However, many of those openings get filled by veteran audiologists who as ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 20, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lisa Lunsford Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Professional Development Schools Source Type: blogs

Antitrust for Fun and Profit: The Democrats ’ Better Deal (Part 3)
This continuesPart 1 andPart 2 of my critique of the arguments for aggressive antitrust activism offered in Steven Pearlstein ’sWashington Post article, “Is Amazon Getting Too Big, ” which is largely based on a loquacious law review article by Lina Kahn of the Google-funded “New America” think tank. My previous blogs found no factual evidence to support claims of Pearlstein and Kahn that manymarkets(which must includeimported goods and services) are becoming dominated by near-monopolies who profit from overcharging and under-serving consumers.  Yet the wordiest Kahn-Pearlstein arguments for more antitrust suits...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 20, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Protecting the Home from Warrantless Searches
“A man’s home is his castle”—this is not just an aphorism, but a longstanding legal principle. From Biblical times through to the English common law, the home was recognized as a place of refuge in which the owner is protected against uninvited private parties and unjustified government intr usion. That legal shield against arbitrary invasions of the home was embodied in the Fourth Amendment, which resulted in large measure from Americans’ reaction to the British authorities’ use of general warrants to search colonists’ homes without individualized suspicion. As a result of this h istory, “when it comes to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 21, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Jay Schweikert Source Type: blogs

Censorship Comes to Google
At Saturday ’s Halifax International Security Forum,Eric Schmidt announced that Google will alter its search algorithm to “de-rank” results fromRussia Today.Why did Google do this? Perhaps they were concerned about Russia meddling in American elections or they thought their customers wished to see less ofRussia Today. It matters not. Generally Google has broad power to police its platform. We might not like the decision, but it is not ours to make.There is a second possibility. Government officials may have threatened Google to bring about this “de-ranking” ofRussia Today. If so, the First Amendment poses questio...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 22, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: John Samples Source Type: blogs

Constitutional Defects Big Enough to Drive a (Food) Truck Through
Imagine that it ’s your first day at a new job. As you endure the tedious onboarding process, an interesting tidbit catches your attention; among the perks of your new position, you will be issued a company car and cell phone. “Sweet!” you exclaim, now more confident than ever of having made the right career move. But your enthusiasm drops precipitously as you learn that GPS devices have been installed on both the car and phone, allowing the company to continuously track your location. And your shock turns to horror when you are informed that the (mandatory) use of these items requires that you consent to the police ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 22, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Aaron Barnes Source Type: blogs

Kavanaugh, Klayman, and the Fourth Amendment
This report does not directly recommend the bulk collection surveillance at issue inKlayman, nor does it make the argument that such a program would have prevented the 9/11 attacks.   In fact, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ’s (PCLOB) 2014report on the NSA ’s bulk telephony surveillance program, published before Kavanaugh’sKlayman concurrence, found that the program was not a critically important part of the ongoing War on Terror:Based on the information provided to the Board, we have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in which the telephone records program mad...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 13, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 17th 2018
In this study, we found that TXNIP deficiency induces accelerated senescent phenotypes of mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells under high glucose condition and that the induction of cellular ROS or AKT activation is critical for cellular senescence. Our results also revealed that TXNIP inhibits AKT activity by a direct interaction, which is upregulated by high glucose and H2O2 treatment. In addition, TXNIP knockout mice exhibited an increase in glucose uptake and aging-associated phenotypes including a decrease in energy metabolism and induction of cellular senescence and aging-associated gene expression. We propose that...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 16, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs