Medicalidiot

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The number one controllable risk factor for stroke and heart attack is smoking. By far. Not diet, not exercise, smoking. A significant part of that is because nicotine will constrict blood vessels leading to hypertension[1], this leads to d
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I thought it was sulfur, but it may have been silicon that the researchers had used.
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Spotify and some video sites do not work on Safari, which is mind blowing to me.
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We are carbon based life forms, but researchers have hypothesized that there are probably sulfur based lifeforms out in the universe. If I remember correctly, there's over a hundred various amino acids. For humans, we have only 20.
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Doxy is the firstling treatment for Lyme disease
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Physicians are grossly underpaid for the level of education they have to go through, the amount of work that is done weekly, and the high stakes nature of their job. I'm biased as a medical student though. Fun fact: ~5% of health care
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There's a significant amount of fake news around the Ebola outbreak epicenters, such as aid workers trying to take people's blood and other conspiracy theories. We have to keep in mind some of these places recently had a genocide
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There are some conditions, like cranial nerve VII (facial nerve) palsy, where hyperacousis is a symptom. You have a couple muscles in your ear that attenuate sound, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that something happened to
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As someone who works in a hospital, we can bleach every single patient room, wear all the PPE we want, but pathogens will always spread; the only question is when, not if. Even in an isolation chamber a resistance to penicillin would develo
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In practical terms, there will be a resistance that develops eventually. Even though the reservoir is hypothesized to be bats, that doesn't have much significance because of its ability spread from person to person without a vector. Wh
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I want to know how long it will take for Ebola to evolve a resistance to this therapy.
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Keep donating canned vegetables, you can eat that stuff raw, it lasts for years, and it's incredibly healthy even when you consider the high sodium levels.
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Finding out how the sausage is made is uncomfortable.
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Brave New World by far is the most accurate book to date of what the modern world looks like. That's my strongest recommendation. Fahrenheit 451 is also a solid read.
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I recently bought a MBP, my first ever Mac, and it is absolutely amazing. Smooth, fast, secure, and the trackpad is an incredible experience. My only significant complaint I have of it is the keyboard. If Apple replaces only the keyboard, t
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Ryzen is an incredible processor. I'm still happily running my 1700 like the champ it is.
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I respect your opinion, because even if an application could handle 200k users at once was able to be run on a MBP without serious issue, it's still gauche to forcibly invite 200k people in your company to a chat.
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Why do you say cefdinir as the second antibiotic? It's not recommended in uptodate.
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Better keyboard and no touch bar would cause the MBP to be the undisputed champion of laptops. I have a 2019 MBP and love absolutely everything about it minus the keyboard, thank god the 13" has an option without the touch bar.
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The permanently closed point is the most salient in my mind. There was a business that was closed for, what I was told, over 6 months in my area; Google said it was still open. Later I checked out the business on Google maps, but this time
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In the Developed world, we don't have to hunt our food. We don't freeze outside. We have comfortable lives in that we have are physiological needs taken care of. Yet, happiness is at an all time low and our psychological needs are
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One of the most important parts of diet we fail to educate the public on is glycemic index vs glycemic load. Index is essentially the raw score for how drastically a particular food will raise blood sugar. Glycemic load looks at the totalit
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IV will always be king for drug administration, but I'm not too surprised that it's oral absorption is poor considering amino acid absorption is fairly specialized within the GI tract.
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If DNA doesn't code for everything then you deserve the Nobel prize because there isn't any other mechanism for how cells derive structure and function from that is known outside of this conversation. What else codes for PTM, ubiq
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DNA not only contains the most basic information, but all the information. It houses more information than what we get purely from protein expression. Where your point falls short is that we don't need to know every nuance behind prote
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Definitely for certain things like intelligence, but many disease processes will be one gene coding one deleterious enzyme. For example Hyper-IgE syndrome will be a STAT3 mutation, Cystic Fibrosis is going to be a change typically at 508 to
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These are all salient points and I would like to comment as someone who has experience in medicine. We are truly on the precipice of so many breakthroughs in the medical field. Cancer is going to be a chronic condition soon. HIV will likely