“A Federal Trade Commission report on the pet medications industry noted fast growth and a changing landscape of suppliers – with veterinarians seeing increased competition from non-traditional sellers, and consumers finding more ways to buy medications for their pets. The report made recommendations for ways to make the pet medications market even more competitive. Based… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Federal Judge Blocks Release of CIA Torture Report to ACLU
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, et al. , Defendants. Civil Action No. 13 – 1870 (JEB) – May 20, 2015 MEMORANDUM OPINION [snipped]: “A lightning rod for controversy, the Central Intelligence Agency’s former detention and interrogation program has spawned a… Continue Reading
Building an Innovation-Driven Economy – The Case of BRIC and GCC Countries
Gackstatter, Steffen and Kotsemir, Maxim Nikolaevich and Meissner, Dirk, Building an Innovation-Driven Economy – The Case of BRIC and GCC Countries (July 25, 2014). Foresight, Vol. 16, Iss. 4, pp. 293-308 (2014). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2491488 “Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to undertake an analysis of the attempts of Gulf… Continue Reading
NY State joining 14 other states in adopting Uniform Bar Examination
The National Jurist – “New York State will begin using the Uniform Bar Examination in 2016, making it the fifteenth, and by far largest, state to do so. The state’s chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, said he expected the move to result in a “domino effect” with other states jumping on the UBE bandwagaon. More than… Continue Reading
State of Senior Hunger in America 2013: An Annual Report
“The National Foundation to End Senior Hunger (NFESH) has released a study, entitled State of Senior Hunger in America 2013: An Annual Report, conducted by Dr. James P. Ziliak and Dr. Craig G. Gundersen. Commissioned by NFESH, this report reveals that 15.5 percent of seniors or 9.6 million individuals age 60 or older in the… Continue Reading
Sunlight Foundation – Opening Criminal Justice Data
“As part of a new initiative, the Sunlight Foundation has begun amassing an inventory of public and privately-produced criminal justice data. The spreadsheet on this page is a work in progress but we’re publishing it now with hopes that people can use it for research or reporting and even contribute to it. Please go through… Continue Reading
An Introduction to Health Insurance: What Should a Consumer Know?
CRS – An Introduction to Health Insurance: What Should a Consumer Know? Carol Rapaport, Analyst in Health Care Financing. April 30, 2015. “Congress has seen a renewed interest in the market for private health insurance since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA; P.L. 111-148, as amended). This report provides an… Continue Reading
OECD – Tackling Harmful Alcohol Use
Sassi, F.(ed.) (2015), Tackling Harmful Alcohol Use: Economics and Public Health Policy, OECD Publishing, Paris. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264181069-en “Alcoholic beverages, and their harmful use, have been familiar fixtures in human societies since the beginning of recorded history. Worldwide, alcohol is a leading cause of ill health and premature mortality. It accounts for 1 in 17 deaths, and for… Continue Reading
Google Impact Challenge – Disabilities
The Focus – To build awareness, identify solutions and help create universal access for people with disabilities. There are One Billion people with disabilities in the world. That’s one billion people that society is not designed to serve. Technology and the power of the human spirit can make a better world. Continue Reading
International energy data and analysis portal
Via EIA – Choose energy source: petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity; Visualization – Bubble Map, Heat Map, Column Chart; Production, Consumptions, Reserves & Capacity, Imports, Exports. Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Defense Transportation, Federal Veterinarians, U.S. Postal Service
Defense Transportation: Air Force’s Airlift Study Met Mandate Requirements, GAO-15-457R: Published: May 26, 2015. Publicly Released: May 26, 2015. Federal Veterinarians: Efforts Needed to Improve Workforce Planning, GAO-15-495: Published: May 26, 2015. Publicly Released: May 26, 2015. U.S. Postal Service: Improved Management Procedures Needed for Parcel Select Contracts, GAO-15-408: Published: Apr 23, 2015. Publicly Released:… Continue Reading
Randomized Trial of Four Financial-Incentive Programs for Smoking Cessation
This article was published on May 13, 2015, at NEJM.org. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa141429 “Financial incentives have been shown to promote a variety of health behaviors. For example, in a randomized, clinical trial involving 878 General Electric employees, a bundle of incentives worth $750 for smoking cessation nearly tripled quit rates, from 5.0% to 14.7% and led… Continue Reading
