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86 votes
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An open letter to Johnson & Johnson regarding its strategy to extend its patent on bedaquiline leading to a predicted six million lives lost over four years
79 votes -
World's largest study shows more you walk, lower your risk of death
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Single dose of clinical-grade LSD provides immediate and lasting relief from anxiety, wins approval for phase III trials
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Man bitten by stray cat contracts infection unknown to science
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A pregnant woman in Texas whose fetus has trisomy 18 was granted a court order for an abortion
61 votes -
The battle against the fungal apocalypse is just beginning
61 votes -
There is no evidence that CBD products reduce chronic pain, and taking them is a waste of money and potentially harmful to health, new research finds
58 votes -
Risk of death related to pregnancy and childbirth more than doubled between 1999 and 2019 in the US, new study finds
58 votes -
US Food and Drug Administration issues report claiming marijuana has legitimate medical uses - proposes rescheduling
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WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners
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How many of you wouldn't be alive if it weren't for modern medicine?
I very much would not be. My son had a rough birth, but it probably wouldn't have killed him or my wife. Both my brothers had children in the last six months. Neither of the kids would have...
I very much would not be. My son had a rough birth, but it probably wouldn't have killed him or my wife.
Both my brothers had children in the last six months. Neither of the kids would have survived, and one of the mothers would definitely have died.
The better question might be: how many of you can say for sure you'd be alive without modern medicine?
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“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases
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German man deliberately receives 217 Covid vaccinations over twenty-nine months, with no adverse events or strong effect on immune system
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I'm finally biting the bullet and investing in laser eye surgery, anything I should know?
I've done a large amount of research and got a consultation a few months ago, my doctor said I could get PRK as SMILE and LASIK weren't good options for my cornea. As I understand it the results...
I've done a large amount of research and got a consultation a few months ago, my doctor said I could get PRK as SMILE and LASIK weren't good options for my cornea. As I understand it the results should be very similar, just a longer/more painful recovery time. I've got family who is going to come into town for a week to help me with anything, but I wanted to know if any of you have gone through PRK and had advice or an experience to share.
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The body’s immune system responding to a COVID vaccine, and not the vaccine itself, is likely the cause of menstrual cycle changes experienced after vaccination
42 votes -
A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
40 votes -
2022 guidance from President Biden's administration assures doctors they’ll be protected by US federal law for providing emergency abortion care even if their state bans the procedure
40 votes -
Second person to receive experimental pig heart transplant dies
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Womb transplants are now a life-changing reality. Here’s how the extraordinary procedure works.
37 votes -
A US drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis
36 votes -
Kidney stone breakthrough procedure at UW called 'game changer' for patients
36 votes -
A political gap in excess deaths in the USA widened after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, study says
36 votes -
Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain chip in first human
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Lyme disease vaccine: Major test underway. All you need to know.
34 votes -
No Fap: A cultural history of anti-masturbation
34 votes -
Chiropractic isn’t what you think it is
34 votes -
Some patients who took weight-loss drugs face disturbing side effects
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Johnson & Johnson has granted Stop TB Partnership license to produce generic bedaquiline in low and middle-income countries
33 votes -
Goodbye, Ozempic
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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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I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk
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How two US pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine decongestants don’t work
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Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in Fresno, California
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Moderna begins HIV vaccine trials
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Psychoactive drug ibogaine effectively treats traumatic brain injury in special ops military vets
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Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud
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Do you feel like many systems are on the verge of collapse?
My post will be US-centric, because that's where I live, but obviously you're welcome to talk about your own location as well. With this new COVID-19/Omicron surge, strange things are afoot....
My post will be US-centric, because that's where I live, but obviously you're welcome to talk about your own location as well.
With this new COVID-19/Omicron surge, strange things are afoot. Specifically, those in charge of our systems and government have chose to ignore it, rather than institute more shut downs, mandates, stimuli, etc. It appears as though the plan now is to let it burn through the population and see how that shakes out.
But if you peruse r/nursing and r/teachers like I do, you can really see how deep the cracks are becoming. Infections are up, as are hospitalizations, and with more and more professionals out sick, we're seeing huge staff shortages in both education and health care. These industries in particular are essential, and the professionals in these jobs are on the front line of our problems. Health care professionals obviously need to be there to help the sick. And teachers need to be there not only to teach, but so that parents can go to work. They're being sacrificed to our economy.
But as teachers, for example, get sick or get burned out and quit, it puts continued strain on the education system as a whole. We're already seeing staff shortages in other areas of education, such as food service, bus drivers, substitutes, paraprofessionals. With how contagious this variant is, it's only a matter of time until school systems collapse in on themselves due to a lack of people running the show. And when kids have no place to go, parents will have to figure something out or stay home themselves, pulling them away from their jobs and their income.
With all help being pulled away from Americans--help such as eviction moratoriums, financial stimulus, unemployment benefits--what might happen if these things begin to cascade? There are already plenty of anecdotal reports from those in health care that hospitals are full, short staffed, and falling (and you can check here to see hospital status in your state). It can take hours, if not days, to find a bed for someone in the ER. As for education, increasingly both teachers and students are out sick with COVID, yet administrations are fighting tooth and nail against any kind of remote learning, only exacerbating the problem. Remote learning, as you know, requires a parent to be home with the child, which takes them away from work, income, and economic productivity.
And meanwhile, the media seems mostly quiet about how things are actually going. The line is that Omicron is "mild" but if you look at hospitals and schools, it seems like that might just be verbiage to reduce panic in the populace. Omicron isn't mild for the health care system. Better hope you don't get in a car accident. And in medical terms, "mild" is a pretty broad thing. It could mean you're home sick for two weeks, feeling like death, but not bad enough to be hospitalized.
And then there are other front line workers, grocery stores, supply chain, all experiencing similar sickness and staff shortages. But I haven't been keeping up with that as much lately as I have been with education and health care. If anybody has information about these sectors, I'd love to hear it.
My gut feeling is that the economy is actually on the verge of collapse, and this "let it rip!" strategy is a hail mary to see if the status quo can be maintained by sacrificing the health and well-being of a lot of people. Any other mitigation efforts could topple the economy as we know it (and as those at the top benefit from it), so the people in charge of our systems have decided that we're not going to try to fix things, we're just going to hope it works out in the end and deal with the death and illness. For me, the proverbial canary in the coal mine for this was the recent extension of the student loan payment pause. Borrowers had been blasted for months, both phone calls and emails, telling them that loans would need to be paid after January 31st, it was happening, get ready for it. And then poof... nope. Extended. The government knows. People are stretched thin as it is and restarting loan payments could be the thing that triggers the economy to tumble. Even if borrowers can pay, it sucks money out of the consumer economy which can have far-reaching effects.
Many, if not most people are absolutely fatigued by this pandemic. I am, you probably are. But it has revealed so many cracks in our flawed system and it really feels like the people in charge of things--whoever that is--are gripping on for dear life, just hoping the flaws can remain because it benefits them, praying that the system holds. I just don't see it. I don't see how we make it through this without some kind of major fall. People want to ignore it all, because it's frightening and it's negative, but it's happening right in front of our eyes. Our most important systems are broken and those with the power to fix them aren't doing it.
I'm curious as to what Tildes thinks.
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Hilary Cass' NHS report is rife with debunked theories and falsehoods
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Research samples collected over decades at Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet were destroyed when a freezer malfunctioned during the Christmas holidays
30 votes -
Private UK health data donated for medical research shared with insurance companies
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How one doctor in the USA keeps practicing, despite a long string of sanctions, fines, and lawsuits
30 votes -
Are colonoscopies worth it?
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Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health
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Cambridge-Caltech team of scientists claim to have created synthetic human embryos from stem cells at conference; work not yet published
29 votes -
Their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported
29 votes -
The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach – not just for coronavirus, but all diseases – amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers
29 votes -
Wild Orangutan observed using first aid on a wound
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Scientists document first-ever transmitted Alzheimer’s cases, tied to no-longer-used medical procedure
28 votes -
London hospital cuts waiting lists with innovative system
28 votes