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Mouse embryos that are four per cent human are step towards spare organs
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Blind people could 'see' letters that scientists drew on their brains with electricity: scientists stimulated the brain using electrodes implanted on its surface
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Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates: Patients with severe deficiency are twice as likely to experience major complications
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Smallpox and the long road to eradication
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Researchers offer caution on cough syrup and COVID-19
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First drug known to work against SARS-CoV-2— remdesivir—imaged in action
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The COVID-19 vaccine: How do we immunize seven billion people?
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Why are clinical trials so complicated?
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Remdesivir in adults with severe COVID-19: A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial
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Anthony Fauci calls US data from Gilead virus-drug trial ‘good news’
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In race for a coronavirus vaccine, an Oxford group leaps ahead: As scientists at the Jenner Institute prepare for mass clinical trials, new tests show their vaccine to be effective in monkeys
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Accidentally released data from clinical trial of Gilead’s remdesivir in China showed no significant benefit for coronavirus patients
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Coronavirus vaccine prospects
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America: 200 years of responding to epidemics from The Saturday Evening Post
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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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Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic
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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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Chloroquine, past and present
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France limits sale of paracetamol (acetaminophen)
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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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In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal for smallpox inoculation with a terror that bordered on hysteria
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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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Machine learning for antibiotics
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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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South Dakota House passes bill which makes it a misdemeanor for doctors to provide puberty blockers or other treatments affecting gender expression to children under sixteen years old
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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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