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Alan Watts – Acceptance of Death EOL in Art 38
Here is a very well done four minute clip on the importance of accepting death.  It correlates film clips with portions of a lecture by British philosopher Alan Watts.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 17, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

We’d Be In The Dark Without AHRQ
Here at Health Affairs we take the policy relevance of our work very seriously. As the leading health policy journal in the country, with the highest impact factor in our field, we work assiduously to find, edit, and publish the best scholarship that helps policymakers do their job. When we heard about threats to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) future, we set out to understand how the loss of AHRQ would affect the nation’s understanding of critical health policy issues. The results caused us great concern. While AHRQ contributes in many ways, we focused our analysis on the major data sources tha...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 15, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Alan Weil Tags: Health Professionals Once in a Weil Quality AHRQ Alan Weil health policy research policymakers Surveys Source Type: blogs

Apr 12, Alan Kent Malyon: Today in the History of Psychology (12th April 1941)
Alan Kent Malyon was born. A highly respected clinical psychologist, Malyon was a founding figure within the field of lesbian and gay psychology. In 1986 he served as chair of the American Psychological Association Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns during which time he set in place enduring initiatives to ensure that gay and lesbian issues were addressed within mainstream psychology. Of all Malyon's many accomplishments arguably his greatest was his successful campaign to have 'egodystonic homosexuality' removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; a watershed moment in challenging misinform...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - April 12, 2016 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs

Now a Third California Brain Death Dispute – Alan Sanchez
LA County-USC Medical Center says 17-year-old Alan Sanchez is brain dead. But his family wants to fight on. “We’re fighting for his life right now,” said his sister, Laura Sanchez-Alvarado.  They said he needs another operation. Doctors are refusing to perform the operation because they said Sanchez is brain dead, days after being involved in a car accident.   The family is working the phones and hoping a judge will step in.  (CBS News)  There is a GoFundMe site.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 24, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression
[Reprinted with permission from Alan Reynolds, “What Do We Know about the Great Crash?” National Review, November 9, 1979]  Many scholars have long agreed that the Smoot-Hawley tariff had disastrous economic effects, but most of them have  felt  that  it could  not have caused the stock market collapse of  October  1929, since the tariff was not signed into law  until the following June. Today we know that market participants do not wait for a major law to pass, but instead try to anticipate whether or not it will pass and what its effects will be.  Consider the following sequence of events:  The Smoot-Hawley...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 7, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Alan Turing ' s brilliant essay
In 1950, Alan Turing wrote " Computing Machinery and Intelligence. " This one short paper, exploring what came to be called the Turing test, continues to influence research and thinking across multiple fields. Tyler Cowen and I have co-authored a new paper asking two questions. What does the Turing test really mean? And how many human beings (including Turing) could pass? Our premise is that some aspects of Turing ' s paper have not received sufficient attention: Turing ’s paper is rich and multi-faceted and we are not seeking to overturn all of the extant interpretations. We do wish to suggest that a potent and ind...
Source: The Autism Crisis - July 15, 2009 Category: Child Development Source Type: blogs

Conde Nast Promotes Cancer Research ... and Cancer: A Guest Commentary and Open Letter by Alan Blum, MD
"Glamour. This is one of the many publications whose chief function is to publish ads for cosmetics, clothes, and other items for young women.  The tobacco industry, having almost reached the saturation point of male smoking, is out to get a majority of women.Glamourhired Dr. Henry C. Link to write an article (Jan ' 46) saying that smoking cigarets is one of the most important of all bad habits. "--George Seldes,In Fact, July 28, 1947Nearly 70 years later,Glamouris still ignoring the dangers of smoking and running cigarette ads.  And nowGlamour is published by Conde Nast, which also publishes influential magazine...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 9, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Saying Goodbye to D-Dad and Advocate Alan Thicke
We lost an icon this week in Alan Thicke. He's the Canadian actor best known for playing iconic TV dad Dr. Jason Seaver on the '80s sitcom "Growing Pains." And hearing of his death seems like a punch to the gut for an entire generation (myself in...
Source: Diabetes Mine - December 16, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Mike Hoskins Source Type: blogs

The Window of Opportunity for Teaching Your Kids Great Eating Habits
Dr. Greene’s take on great eating habits… What does mother goose have to do with getting kids to eat right? Researcher Konrad Lorentz showed that by replacing a mother goose with something else as the first thing a baby goose encountered, he could alter the behavior of the baby goose to view that thing (even a toy train!!) as ‘mama’. This phenomenon is referred to as “imprinting,” and it works just as well for “what’s for dinner?” as it does for “who’s mama?” But there’s a catch – it only works for a short while. If you want your children ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - November 20, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Infant Infant & Baby Feeding Infant Feeding Newborn Newborn Development Top Infant Top Infant Nutrition Top Newborn Source Type: blogs

First Doubts about Border Adjustability
President Trump created a stir by dismissing as “too complicated” the border adjustability feature in the House Republican corporate tax reform. Yet a few days later his press secretarySean Spicer suggested the seemingly rejected border tax could pay for a Mexican border wall.   Meanwhile, the President suggested the dollar is “too strong” even though (1) Commerce SecretaryWilbur Ross boasted about Trump having talking the Mexico peso down 35% and (2) Martin Feldstein and other economists pushing border adjustability predict that the plan would push the dollar 25% higher.  To call border adjustability too compli...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 30, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

An All-in-One, Life-Prolonging Gift for Your Child
Sometimes in the hubbub of today, we miss simple things that can have a lasting impact. This is true for parents and for doctors. As part of my ongoing board certification as a pediatrician, I was thrilled recently to see an important nutrition question: “A 5-year-old boy is brought to the physician for a health care supervision visit. The parents have no particular concerns. Which of the following interventions would be most likely to lead to a predicted decrease in mortality in a population of healthy 5-year-old children?” Decreased potassium intake Decreased sodium intake Increased caffeine intake Increased fluori...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - March 18, 2013 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Family Nutrition Top Blog Source Type: blogs

Inching Toward Health IT Interoperability – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/4 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Alan Portela (@AlanWPortela) from Airstrip on the topic of “Inching Toward Health IT Interoperability.” To some it may seem as though ‘interoperability’ is a stale health IT buzzword, but nothing could be further from the truth. Why? Because interoperability still isn’t a reality. Data is digital, but not readily available; data exists in EHRs, but isn’t aggregated and shared in a way that makes sense for clinicians. In addition, precision medicine r...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 1, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT Healthcare Social Media Patients #hcldr #HITsm Topics AirStrip Alan Portela Health IT Interoperability Healthcare Interoperability Source Type: blogs

Meeting Jane Goodall & The Chimpanzees
After one of the hardest hikes of my life, I stepped into a small clearing and turned to see a full-grown male chimp perched in a tree just above and behind me. He was close enough to attack if he’d wanted to. Thankfully, he didn’t want to… I grew up reading National Geographic magazine from cover to cover every month. There I learned about diverse cultures, amazing ecosystems, and drank in vivid images of wild animals. It’s also where I, like many of you, first experienced meeting Jane Goodall. The amazing Jane Goodall. It’s one of the things that shaped my attitudes toward health, the environment and our place ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 15, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Environmental Health Top Environmental Health Source Type: blogs

Too much sodium is bad. Hidden sources of sodium are worse!
Sometimes in the hubbub of today, we miss simple things that can have a lasting impact. This is true for parents and for doctors. As part of my ongoing board certification as a pediatrician, I was thrilled recently to see an important nutrition question: “A 5-year-old boy is brought to the physician for a health care supervision visit. The parents have no particular concerns. Which of the following interventions would be most likely to lead to a predicted decrease in mortality in a population of healthy 5-year-old children?” Decreased potassium intake Decreased sodium intake Increased caffeine intake Increased fluori...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - March 18, 2013 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Family Nutrition Top Blog Source Type: blogs

Saying Goodbye to D-Dad and Advocate Alan Thicke
We lost an icon this week in Alan Thicke. He's the Canadian actor best known for playing iconic TV dad Dr. Jason Seaver on the '80s sitcom "Growing Pains." And hearing of his death seems like a punch to the gut for an entire generation (myself in...
Source: Diabetes Mine - December 16, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Mike Hoskins Source Type: blogs