Melbourne researchers have mapped immune responses from one of Australia’s first novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, showing the body’s ability to fight the virus and recover from the infection
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Anti-inflammatories may aggravate Covid-19, France advises
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Mayo Clinic has developed a test that can detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in clinical samples
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21-yr-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands – intergender and interrace double-hand transplant
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Healthcare rant thread
So I don't know about all of you, but I'm pretty sick of terrible healthcare in the USA. So I'm starting this thread for all of us to rant about our personal issues with healthcare. I'll be...
So I don't know about all of you, but I'm pretty sick of terrible healthcare in the USA.
So I'm starting this thread for all of us to rant about our personal issues with healthcare. I'll be writing my rant into it's own reply later (it's a bit of a long one), but I wanted to start the thread now to give others a chance to start venting.
Rules of Rant Thread:
- Don't argue a rant
- Thread is likely going to be incredibly USA-centric. USA healthcare is assumed unless stated otherwise.
- Rants should involve people no more than 2 degrees of separation from yourself. This thread is to vent about your personal experiences, not hearsay from total strangers.
In order to foster further discussion, and include those without a rant: Here are some things I personally would appreciate and expect for replies, but others might not.
- Explanation of how things would work out for you if you were in a similar situation
- Advice for dealing with any ongoing or future problems
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She wanted a 'freebirth' with no doctors. Online groups convinced her it would be OK.
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“We are at a turning point”: The coronavirus outbreak is looking more like a pandemic
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Australian coronavirus vaccine goes into test production
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More than fifty people died under Victoria's euthanasia scheme during its first six months
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The downside of diagnosis by smartphone
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Beyond identical or fraternal: Six rare types of twins
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Forget face masks and rubber gloves. The best way to avoid the coronavirus is frequent hand washing, according to a medical adviser to the world’s airlines.
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What I learned about life at a company that deals in dead bodies
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A British cobbler had his thumb replaced with a big toe. He’d lost the digit while mending a shoe, but is now back at work with a toe grafted onto his hand.
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NICE choses not to recommend esketamine for treatment resistant depression
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Ten years after vaccination was introduced, no HPV16/18 infections were found in sexually active 16-18 year old females in England according to public health data
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Australians are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated.
A news article: Patients suffer invasive treatments for harmless cancers The study itself: Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
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Acclaimed scientist gets brain surgery for alcohol addiction
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An examination of over 4700 clinical trials found that less than 45% of them reported their results on time, despite it being a legal requirement
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Research identifies new route for tackling drug resistance in skin cancer cells
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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Man with 5.5-inch horn growing on his back slipped "through the net" docs say
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America’s first opioid epidemic: As the country struggles with a terrible opioid crisis, we remember a similar epidemic that raged through the US in the 1800s
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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
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Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development. Here’s why we did, too.
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Venturing a perspective on the drug pricing debate
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Ultrasound destroys eighty percent of prostate cancers in one-year study
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US FDA approving drugs at breakneck speed
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The gene patent question
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I was a drug rep. I know how pharma companies pushed opioids.
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Slaying the speckled monster - The history of smallpox and the origins of vaccines
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One in five University of Otago, New Zealand medical students to be denied graduation after falsifying overseas placement records
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I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk
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The Friday effect: Firm lobbying, the timing of drug safety alerts, and drug side effects
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Long-awaited cystic fibrosis drug could turn deadly disease into a manageable condition
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4,000-year-old mummies showed early signs of heart disease
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Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
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She took her amputated leg home, and you can too
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Inside the drug industry’s plan to defeat the DEA
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Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under US settlement proposal
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No way to go (2007)
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The message of measles - As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the US in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease
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An ingenious microscope could change how quickly disease is detected
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Maybe your Zoloft stopped working because a liver fluke tried to turn your Nth-great-grandmother into a zombie
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A vaccine for cat allergies is in development; early results are promising, aiming for market release in 2022
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Supercharging the band-aid: Five futuristic bandages that could take wound healing to the next level
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How big pharma was captured by the one percent
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Can overdose-prevention sites work in the US?
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Bendigo mother becomes the first Victorian to use Voluntary Assisted Dying law
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It’s not just for first responders anymore. Health experts want regular Coloradans to have Naloxone on hand.
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