The history of mainstream handwashing only began near the end of the 19th century
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Australian scientists have made a test to check who is likely to develop coronavirus
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Remdesivir, one of the experimental coronavirus drugs, is a royal pain to make
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Scientists in Melbourne are testing a drug used to fight parasitic worms and bugs – in the hope of destroying coronavirus
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Coronavirus: CSIRO scientists begin vaccine testing in global COVID-19 milestone
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World-first tool to help medicos detect COVID-19 could save 'thousands of lives'
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Lost smell and taste hint COVID-19 can target the nervous system
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Doctors turn to social media to develop Covid-19 treatments in real time
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Folding@Home is prioritizing users towards their Coronavirus projects
@foldingathome: Do you want to help us fight #COVIDー19 ? Download our client from https://t.co/55uKn0rJem -> Install -> Set category to "ANY" #COVID19 is prioritized. GPU and CPU projects are up. Connect with us if you want to do corp collab or donate your time.
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Nigeria has Chloroquine poisonings after Trump praised drug
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Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial
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The thalidomide tragedy: Lessons for drug safety and regulation
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Chloroquine, past and present
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France limits sale of paracetamol (acetaminophen)
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Air Force moves 500K coronavirus test swabs from Italy to US
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New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic
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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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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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21-yr-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands (intergender and interrace double-hand transplant)
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The forgotten story of America's first EMT services
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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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The downside of diagnosis by smartphone
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Beyond Identical or Fraternal: 6 Rare Types of Twins
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A dad drank 50 beers every day for 6 weeks. This is what happened to his brain.
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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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Where will the next pandemic come from? And how can we stop it?
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The discovery of a new kind of immune cell receptor could pave the way for a new type of T-cell cancer therapy.
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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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California bill would penalize doctors for performing virginity tests on women
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Man with 5.5-inch horn growing on his back slipped "through the net" docs say
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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
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1 in 5 University of Otago, New Zealand medical students to be denied graduation after falsifying overseas placement records
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The female problem: how male bias in medical trials ruined women's health
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New pathway for lung cancer treatment
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The Friday effect: Firm lobbying, the timing of drug safety alerts, and drug side effects
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Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
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No way to go
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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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Ebola is now curable. Here’s how the new treatments work
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Supercharging the Band-Aid: Five futuristic bandages that could take wound healing to the next level
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