Category «Health Care»

ABA celebrates Black History Month with monthlong webinar series

“The American Bar Association Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice will celebrate Black History Month with a webinar series for various days in February, The Challenges that African Americans Face in the 21st Century, begins Wednesday, Feb. 3 and will run on Feb. 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 23, 25 and 26. The series …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Courts, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 31, 2021

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 31, 2021 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Medicine, Microsoft, Privacy, Search Engines

Resources for Tracking Federal COVID-19 Spending

CRS Report – Resources for Tracking Federal COVID-19 Spending, Updated February 1, 2021: “Congress has responded to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with supplemental appropriations measures providing relief and assistance to individuals and families, state and local governments, businesses, health care providers, and other entities. For more information, see CRS Report R46474, Laws Enacted …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care

Economy and COVID-19 Top the Public’s Policy Agenda for 2021

“As the United States faces twin crises of high unemployment and a global pandemic, large majorities of Americans want Joe Biden and Congress to prioritize strengthening the economy and addressing the coronavirus outbreak in the coming year. Yet there are wide partisan gaps over most of the 19 items asked about in a new Pew …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Poverty, Transportation

Testing positive after the vaccine

The New York Times – The scattered reports from around the country can play like a cruel irony: Someone tests positive for the coronavirus even though they have already received one or both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. How can that happen? Experts say cases like these are not surprising and do not indicate that …

Subjects: Health Care, Medicine

When can everyone in the US get a Covid-19 vaccine?

Vox – We still don’t know: “As America’s bumpy Covid-19 vaccine rollout continues, a lot of people still have one very big question: When can I get a Covid-19 vaccine? For the vast majority of people, we don’t know yet. There are too many variables, from how much the new federal government can improve vaccination rates …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Life Insurance Underwriting in the Wake of COVID

Recovered COVID-19 Patients Facing New Life Insurance Hurdles in Europe, Protections Needed for American Consumers -“Consumer Federation of America (CFA) sent a letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) urging them to adopt a model rule for life insurance underwriters that might want to delay or deny coverage to people who had COVID-19 …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Legal Research

‘Price gouging from Covid’: student ebooks costing up to 500% more than in print

The Guardian – “Librarians at UK universities say students’ reading lists for this term are being torn up because of publishers’ “eye-watering” increases to ebook prices, and some students are now reading what is available or affordable, rather than what their tutors think is best for their course. With thousands of students studying in their …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Why epidemiologists are so worried about the new Covid-19 variants, in 2 charts

Vox – A slightly more transmissible variation of Covid-19 can be much more dangerous. “A more contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus is a deadlier one. Not because it gets any individual sicker but because it reaches more people. More illness means more cases: more mild cases, more severe cases, more long-term complications, more hospitalizations, and more deaths. …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?

The New York Times – “…We think that smell is less important to us than our other senses only because we’re fooling ourselves, Sobel told me. After all, you wouldn’t eat a beautiful cake if it smelled like sewage, but you would probably try some ugly gloop that smelled like cinnamon. Covid, he hypothesized, could …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management

A Close Look at Spain’s 1817 Health Guidelines: Avoiding the Spread of Disease

In Custodia Legis – The following is a guest post by Alice Pérez Ververa, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is a current student of the Information School at the University of Washington. “This document was a mandate with 24 instructions written by Spanish government and health …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

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