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Sunday Sermonette: Last last words
You may recall that 2 Samuel 23 presented what purported to be David ' s last words, but he has had many more words to say since then and now we get what really are his last words since he in fact dies immediately after saying them. They consist of a hit list, including Shimei who David had previously promised not to kill. Well, he kept his word I guess, David had Solomon do the murder. (Shimei had called David names and thrown rocks at him in 2 Samuel 16.) BTW that David ruled for 40 years shouldn ' t surprise us since everything in the Bible seems to last 40 years. The Israelites wandered in the desert eating manna ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 20, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: Human Sacrifice
 Literally. The first part of this chapter is a story of human sacrifice to appease Yahweh. It is also riddled with contradictions, which I ' ll note. In the second part, the Giants return. Remember that there has been a race of giants in Palestine going back to Genesis. They appear again in Numbers and of course earlier we had the story of Goliath. A giant named Goliath appears again here. The editors of the KJV inserted the words " the brother of " to cover up the apparent contradiction, but we ' ll give the benefit of the doubt and assume he ' s Goliath Jr. 21 Now there was a famine in the days of David f...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 2, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: Shaggy Dog Story Finally Ends
Years ago, when Saul spared the life of a single Amelekite, contrary to God ' s command to exterminate them, God told Saul that he no longer had God ' s favor and would no longer be king. But Saul went right on being king as though nothing had happened. He repeatedly tried to kill David but David repeatedly forgave him and declared fealty to Saul. Saul kept winning battles. The Amelekites returned from the dead only to be exterminated again, twice. Then Saul decided to hire a necromancer to resurrect Samuel, who told Saul that he would be killed because he failed to exterminate the Amelekites years before, even though in f...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 19, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Digital Health Interests Of Pharma Giants Boehringer Ingelheim, Takeda, Astrazeneca, Amgen And Roche
With their extending reaches, resources and influence, pharmaceutical heavyweights have the potential to shape the digital health landscape to line up with their interests. And to have a better picture of where those interests lie, it is worth taking a look at what moves pharma giants are making in this sphere. With this in mind, we started a series of articles focusing on the digital health efforts of 14 global pharma companies.  The first article explored developments coming from Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Bayer and Novartis, while the second article investigated those coming from Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, AbbV...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 4, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Pharma sleep patient empowerment pharmaceutics roche MySugr Astra-Zeneca DTx takeda Boehringer Ingelheim Amgen digitisation Quire.ai Renalytix Eko Source Type: blogs

Gastroenterology Embraces Artificial Intelligence
AI and machine learning have the potential to redefine the management of several GI disorders.John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article.Colonoscopy is one of the true success stories in modern medicine.Studies have demonstrated that colonoscopy screening detects the cancer at a much earlier stage, reducing the risk of invasive tumors and metastatic disease, andreducing mortality. However, while colorectal cancer is highly preventable, it is thethird leading cause of cancer-related deathsin the U.S. A...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - October 13, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: Glad I wasn ' t a letter carrier back then . . .
1 Samuel 11 is fundamentally another Groundhog Day story: Saul was anointed king in the previous chapter but it doesn ' t really count until he musters the troops and massacres some people.  But it does have some twists. It also has a major continuity problem -- actually two. All the people of Jabeshgilead, with the exception of the virgin women, were massacred in Judges 21. But here they are, miraculously resurrected so that they can make a deal with Nahash the Amonnite to have their right eyes poked out. Why exactly Nahash wants to do this is not explained. A second major continuity error is the division in the...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 10, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: Holy Matrimony
If there is one sure lesson to be taken from the Book of Judges, it is that Bible thumpers who claim that the Good Book is their guide to a righteous and moral life have not actually read it. Judges is a relentless torrent of mass murder, torture and rape presided over by a sadistic psychopath God, who incidentally has forgotten the very laws he propounded in the Torah. This, the final chapter, is a fitting coda. True believers who proclaim the sanctity of human life and marriage between one man and one woman, and pretending there is some sort of Biblical authority for these principles, need only read it. But of course the...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 18, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: Thuffering Thuccotash
Judges 12 describes what might be called the first civil war among the Israelites, though I ' m not sure that ' s really accurate since they don ' ' t have a central government and the religio-cultural unity created by the tabernacle and the pilgrimages seems to have vanished. Anyway, just to clarify the geography, the territory of Ephraim -- or I should say the putative territory, this is all fiction -- was in what is today central Israel on the west side of the Jordan. Jepthah and his army are based in Gilead, on the east side, in what is today Jordan. So what happens here is that the Ephraimites cross the river and end ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 18, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

The explosion of mental health apps raises substantial opportunities –and tough questions
In the eyes of the tech industry, mental health treatment is an area ripe for disruption. In any given year, 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experience a form of mental illness, according to federal estimates. And research indicates only about half of them receive treatment in a system that is understaffed and ill distributed to meet demand. For tech startups looking to cash in on unmet need, that translates into more than 50 million potential customers. Venture capital firms invested more than $2.4 billion in digital behavioral health apps in 2020 — more than twice the amount invested in 2019 — touting support or treatment ...
Source: SharpBrains - June 28, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Kaiser Health News Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation anxiety BetterHelp brain-illness Brightside cerebral depression digital behavioral health FDA Food and Drug Administration Ginger health apps mental illness mental-health-treatment Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: Joshua checks out
This is the penultimate chapter of Joshua. It ' s the first half of his farewell address, and it ' s just more of the same. Obey the law, don ' t have anything to do with other Gods, don ' t marry or have sex with people who worship other Gods, or you ' re screwed. Otherwise I ' ll keep all my promises. (Well, he actually didn ' t and won ' t in the future.) Same old same old as Moses. There ' s a bit more of this next time, then he gets buried, then we ' re on to Judges.23 After a long time had passed and theLord had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then a very old man,2 summoned ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 2, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: Moar Genocide
I ' m in a meeting all day (and yesterday), so drive by blogging only. Joshua 11 is just more of the same, massacring whole peoples. I will just say that it ' s evidently a coincidence that there ' s a land of Goshen in Canaan. This couldn ' t be the region where the Israelites once resided in Egypt. The " Anakim " who get wiped out in the end are a race of giants. Anyway, once again you can take comfort in knowing that this is all entirely fictitious.11 When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Akshaph,2 and to the northern kings who were in the moun...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 21, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: God the compassionate, the merciful
I ' m afraid that Joshua 9 offers only a brief respite from genocidal slaughter. Joshua 10, one of the longest chapters we ' ve read so far, and in case you thought it was impossible to scale greater heights of depravity, it manages the feat. In this single chapter, Joshua and the Israelites murder all of the inhabitants of 12 cities. God gets involved directly, helping to wipe out the Amorite alliance with a hailstorm, and making the sun stand still in the sky so Joshua can get his mass murder done in the daylight. Then we get an elaborate depiction of the humiliation and murder of the Amorite kings, followed by a relentl...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 18, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: More family values
I ' m afraid the Book of Joshua is going to be very tedious. It ' s one genocide after another. You will find many religious apologists claim that religion is necessary for morality, that without religious faith there can be no way to tell right from wrong. Isn ' t it odd that I, who have no religious faith, can determine that the entire Book of Joshua is monstrously wrong, and that living according to Biblical morality would make you the precise moral equivalent of Adolf Hitler? Regarding the ending of the first part of the chapter, what did the king of Ai ever do to the Israelites? 8 Then theLord said to Joshua...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 11, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: Not very spiritual
Joshua 6 is one of the better known chapters in the Bible, probably because it is the subject of a famous and much-recorded African American slave song, usually titled " Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, "  fit, of course, being dialect for fought. It is interesting that the subject matter of most slave songs with Biblical content, conventionally called spirituals, is Old Testament. That suggests that the slaveholders ' religious instruction of their slaves focused heavily on OT stories, or perhaps that the  slaves found the OT more inspirational. The symbolic meaning of the song to its creators and the people wh...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 4, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

An emerging treatment option for men with recurring prostate cancer after radiation therapy
Prostate cancer is often a multifocal disease, meaning that several tumors can be present in different parts of gland at the same time. Not all of these tumors are equally problematic, however. And it’s increasingly thought that the tumor with the most aggressive features — called the index lesion — dictates how a man’s cancer is likely to behave overall. That concept has given rise to a new treatment option. Called partial gland ablation (PGA), and also focal therapy, it entails treating only the index lesion and its surrounding tissues, instead of removing the prostate surgically or treating the whole gla...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 2, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Health Living With Prostate Cancer Prostate Knowledge Treatments HPK Source Type: blogs