The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario). Jan 4, 2021, A10.
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The Associated Press, United States. Congress, Political parties -- United States, News agencies -- Officials and employees, and News agencies -- Political aspects
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Congress convened Sunday for the start of a new session, swearing in lawmakers during a tumultuous period as a growing number of Republicans work to overturn Joe Biden's victory over [...]
The Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario). Jan 4, 2021, A8.
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The Associated Press, United States. Congress, News agencies -- Officials and employees, and News agencies -- Political aspects
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Congress convened Sunday for the start of a new session, swearing in lawmakers during a tumultuous period as a growing number of Republicans work to overturn Joe Biden's victory over [...]
Peterborough This Week (Peterborough, Ontario). Jan 4, 2021, A10.
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The Associated Press, United States. Congress, News agencies -- Officials and employees, and News agencies -- Political aspects
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Congress convened Sunday for the start of a new session, swearing in lawmakers during a tumultuous period as a growing number of Republicans work to overturn Joe Biden's victory over [...]
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, Epidemics -- Economic aspects, Epidemics -- United States, Domestic economic assistance -- Access control, and Domestic economic assistance -- Laws, regulations and rules
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WASHINGTON -- Lead Top Capitol Hill negotiators sealed a deal Sunday on an almost US$1-trillion COVID-19 economic relief package, finally delivering long-overdue help to businesses and individuals and [...]
National Review. Dec 31, 2020, Vol. 72 Issue 24, p24, 4 p.
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Government regulation, Republican Party (United States) -- Evaluation, Decriminalization -- 2020 AD, Decriminalization -- Political aspects, Political campaigns -- 2020 AD, Political campaigns -- Evaluation, Electioneering -- 2020 AD, Electioneering -- Evaluation, Marijuana -- 2020 AD, Marijuana -- Laws, regulations and rules, Marijuana -- Political aspects, Presidential elections (United States) -- 2020 AD, and Presidential elections (United States) -- Evaluation
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IN 2020, the reliably Democratic state of New Jersey, the swing state of Arizona, and the Republican stronghold of Mississippi all voted the same way: in favor of liberalizing their [...]
Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada). July 28, 2020, B1,B7.
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Antitrust issue, Company legal issue, United States. Congress -- Investigations, United States. Congress -- Officials and employees, Antitrust law -- Investigations, High technology industry -- Officials and employees, and High technology industry -- Investigations
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SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Lead Four of Silicon Valley's most powerful executives are set to testify before a congressional antitrust inquiry Wednesday in a political showdown that marks [...]
Continental Congress -- Powers and duties, Continental Congress -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, American Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, United States history -- Revolution, 1775-1783, United States history -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, and Declaration of Independence (Declaration) -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
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Lead If the 16-month-old Revolutionary War didn't give the British an inkling that the American colonies were unhappy, the Declaration of Independence certainly did. Drafted by a committee [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA). Jan 15, 2021
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Americans -- Political aspects, Americans -- Political activity, and Coups d'etat -- Political aspects
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Jan. 15If tradition holds (and who knows about that anymore), on a cold night this February Joe Biden will motorcade from his new home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue up Capitol [...]
Tamblyn, Robyn, Meyers, David, Kratzmann, Meredith, Bazemore, Andrew, Bierman, Arlene S, Bindman, Andrew B, Hogg, William, Price, David, Rowe, Brian H, Roy, Denis, Steinberg, Judith, and Reid, Robert H
Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, vol 64, iss 12
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Humans, Primary Health Care, Delivery of Health Care, Canada, United States, Congresses as Topic, Public Health And Health Services, General & Internal Medicine, and Public Health and Health Services
Messé, Steven R, Mullen, Michael T, Cox, Margueritte, Fonarow, Gregg C, Smith, Eric E, Saver, Jeffrey L, Reeves, Mathew J, Bhatt, Deepak L, Matsouaka, Roland, and Schwamm, Lee H
Journal of the American Heart Association, vol 7, iss 21
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Humans, Acute Disease, Tissue Plasminogen Activator, Fibrinolytic Agents, Treatment Outcome, Patient Admission, Retrospective Studies, Cohort Studies, Aged, Quality of Health Care, Guideline Adherence, United States, Female, Male, Congresses as Topic, Stroke, quality indicators, stroke care, tissue‐type plasminogen activator, tissue-type plasminogen activator, and Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology
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Background Patients presenting to hospitals during non-weekday hours experience worse outcomes, often attributed to reduced staffing. The American Heart Association International Stroke Conference ( ISC ) is well attended by stroke clinicians. We sought to determine whether patients with acute ischemic stroke ( AIS ) admitted during the ISC receive less guideline-adherent care and experience worse outcomes. Methods and Results We performed a retrospective cohort study of US hospitals participating in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke and assessed use of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator, other quality measures, and outcomes for patients with AIS admitted during the ISC compared with those admitted the weeks before and after the conference. A total of 69 738 patients with AIS were included: mean age, 72 years; 52% women; 29% nonwhite. There was no difference between the average weekly number of AIS cases admitted during ISC weeks versus non- ISC weeks (1984 versus 1997; P=0.95). Patient and hospital characteristics were similar between ISC and non- ISC time periods. There were no significant differences in 14 quality metrics and 5 clinical outcomes between patients with AIS treated during the ISC versus non- ISC weeks. Patients with AIS who presented within 2 hours of onset had no difference in the likelihood of receiving intravenous tissue plasminogen activator within 3 hours (adjusted odds ratio, 0.89; 95% confidence interval, 0.77-1.03; P=0.13) or the likelihood of receiving intravenous tissue plasminogen activator within 60 minutes of arrival (adjusted odds ratio, 0.92; 95% confidence interval, 0.83-1.02; P=0.13). Conclusions Patients with acute stroke admitted to Get With The Guidelines-Stroke hospitals during ISC received the same quality care and had similar outcomes as patients admitted at other times.
Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada). April 24, 2020, A9.
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Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Economic policy, Epidemics -- Economic aspects, and Epidemics -- United States
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Lead Congress delivered a nearly US$500-billion infusion of coronavirus spending Thursday, rushing new relief to employers and hospitals buckling under the strain of a pandemic that has claimed [...]
Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada). March 26, 2020, A10.
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United States. Congress -- Economic policy, Epidemics -- Economic aspects, Epidemics -- United States, Fiscal policy, and Domestic economic assistance
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WASHINGTON -- Lead Congress is pressing ahead with a US$2-trillion economic rescue package aimed at easing the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the largest single piece of [...]
World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future
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World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future
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In order to secure an environmentally sustainable future, the world's local governments must begin to restructure social and economic life at the local level. The problems of solid waste, water pollution, transnational air pollution, climate change, stratospheric ozonedepletion, forest and soil loss, and environmental degradation in the developing world cannot adequately be addressed without a thorough mobilization at the local governmentlevel. By the end of the 20th century more than half of the world's population will live in urban areas. As the centers of industrialized life, cities are the major sources of garbage, sewage, chemical wastes, greenhouse gases and ozone depleting compounds. Standards fordealing with these wastes can be set at the national and international government levels, but such standards can only be implemented in an effective and timely way with local government assistance. Globally, local governments are often in the best position to correct unsustainable land use, construction, transportation, energy, agriculture and waste management practices of modern life. As local government leaders, we gather for a World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, as a first step in exchanging successful local strategies, in alliance with the United Nations for the development and implementation of a global environmentalagenda. We further call for the establishment of an International Secretariat for Local Environmental Initiatives to coordinate, assist and promote local government implementation of sound environmental policy.
Thum DiCesare, Jasmine A, Segar, David J, Donoho, Daniel, Radwanski, Ryan, Zada, Gabriel, and Yang, Isaac
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Humans, Attitude, Anxiety, Career Choice, Neurosurgery, Education, Distance, Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Mentors, Students, Medical, Videoconferencing, United States, Congresses as Topic, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Medical student education, Neurosurgery training camp, Virtual education, neurosurgery training camp, virtual education, Clinical Sciences, and Neurosciences
Abstract
BackgroundNational medical student surveys amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-driven subinternship cancellations have demonstrated the need for supplemental, standardized subspecialty medical education, mentorship, and career planning nationally. We have presented the first live, cross-institutional virtual medical student subspecialty training camp to deliver standardized neurosurgical educational content to medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic, and its results on medical student anxiety and perceptions of neurosurgery.MethodsThe online training camp used a video conferencing platform that was open to all medical students. A post-training camp survey was administered.ResultsA total of 305 medical students registered for the event from 107 unique U.S. medical schools. Of the 305 medical students, 108 reported intending to apply to neurosurgery residency in 2021. The top medical student objectives for the training camp were program networking and mentorship. Of the 305 participants, 121 (39.7%) completed the post-training survey. Of the respondents, 65.0% reported improved neurosurgical knowledge, 79.8% reported decreased anxiety about subinternships and interviews, 82.5% reported increased enthusiasm about neurosurgery, and 100% desired a future annual virtual training camp because of the increased accessibility and decreased cost. This was especially important for students at institutions without home subspecialty programs and those with financial burdens.ConclusionsCOVID-19-driven innovations in medical education have accelerated changes that may have long been necessary. This virtual structure improved resource usage and scalability compared with in-person training, maintained social distancing, and democratized access to standardized, specialized content not often available through traditional medical curricula. Even as a supplement to in-person events, the virtual training camp model could be implemented by national medical societies, which might significantly increase medical students' preparedness for, and education in, neurosurgery and other subspecialties.
Los Angeles Magazine. Sept, 2020, Vol. 65 Issue 9, p48, 6 p.
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FOX News Network L.L.C., Republican Party (United States), Twitter (Online social network), Congressional candidates -- Political activity, Congressional candidates -- Political aspects, Cable television broadcasting industry -- Political aspects, Cable television broadcasting industry -- Political activity, Conspiracy theories -- Political aspects, Furniture industry -- Political aspects, Furniture industry -- Political activity, Political campaigns, and Electioneering
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LATE LAST JUNE, a visitor scrolling through the Wayfair website noticed something curious. Several ordinary-looking cabinets featured were listed at rather lofty price tags. Further examination revealed that the cabinets--and [...]
United States. Congress -- Evaluation, Presidential candidates -- Evaluation, Presidential candidates -- 2020 AD, Presidential elections (United States) -- Evaluation, Presidential elections (United States) -- 2020 AD, Partisanship -- Analysis, and Partisanship -- 2020 AD
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Still McConnell Divided and divisive government is here to stay FORGET NUKING the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court and dismantling the electoral college--the prizes that bold [...]
United States. Congress -- Political activity, United States. Government Accountability Office -- Political activity, Computational linguistics -- Political aspects, Natural language interfaces -- Political aspects, and Language processing -- Political aspects
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It's no secret that the U.S. Congress has been dysfunctional for some time. The hallmarks of dysfunction will be familiar to anyone working within a large organization: * [...]
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