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by doctoring 6y ago
But... why were they rushing? It's not like the vaccine appeared out of thin air on Friday. Its arrival was known for weeks/months. The staff and where they work is known. The error itself is understandable but the conditions lead
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by doctoring 6y ago
MRI has a pretty unique value proposition for the brain, as it can detect and discern things that other modalities (CT, US) simply cannot. Even a poor quality MRI (essentially what this is) provides more information within the brain than a
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by doctoring 6y ago
In many countries the virus has been well-controlled, so children do not get exposed while at school.
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by doctoring 6y ago
It suggests a protective effect of being healthier in general. Japan/Korea/Taiwan/elsewhere have lower rates of metabolic syndrome than the U.S. not because they're on a keto/paleo diet... (Nothing against a keto&#x
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by doctoring 6y ago
Many trials do NOT require patients to come in to take the medication, but there are of course some which are harder to take at home (whether intravenous or intrathecal or whatever). But compliance is certainly hard to assess and so importa
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by doctoring 6y ago
On gaming: it's very interesting that, even within all of the byzantine rules and regulations and guidances how much gray area and leeway there can be. From a drug/device company perspective, which people in the FDA assigned as re
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by doctoring 6y ago
This has been hypothesized for some time, as it is a phenomenon seen in other respiratory viruses (indeed in other viruses in general) where your test is detecting a fragment of virus. These fragments persist after clinical recovery, and, c
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by doctoring 7y ago
They say "Hospitals deploy" but where? how? who? I haven't heard any from colleagues in the US or China, even from people who do medical AI work. One major role for AI that I see here is in prognostication. Are there features
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by doctoring 7y ago
I wasn’t aware lung US was at this point — I’ll have to read more!
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by doctoring 7y ago
Ultrasound has a ton of untapped utility and is a fantastic medical imaging modality. Like you said, the equipment is cheap and portable (can be pocket sized, even!). It’s near instantaneous, allowing you to image in real time. You can even
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by doctoring 7y ago
So many things. "It takes doctors around 20 mins to do the same" is patently false. I would say a full review and dictation of a chest CT by a trained radiologist takes... 10 minutes? 20 if really complicated (metastatic cancer).
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by doctoring 7y ago
This article brings up a specific inflammation-related protein (HMGB1) as being correlated with cognitive impairment after an ICU stay. Usually an ICU stay is the result of being profoundly and dangerously ill -- going to the ICU likely mea
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by doctoring 7y ago
AWS re:Invent ( https://reinvent.awsevents.com )
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by doctoring 7y ago
In addition to the press release someone posted, if you’re interested in some of the (high level) science behind this, I’d encourage you to read the ESMO presentation slides this news comes from: https://grail.com/wp-content
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by doctoring 7y ago
How comfortable will people be with, rather than a doctor inspecting their entire body, having pictures taken of their entire body? Certain centers do use whole body imaging/photography, e.g. this thing: https://www.canfie
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by doctoring 7y ago
This is great to see. A key part of medicine is generating an appropriate differential rather than identifying one true diagnosis (as they explain). A ranked list of diagnoses lets you appropriately incorporate new information (history, lab
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by doctoring 8y ago
I think with these types of incidents being very rare, it's hard to extrapolate to any kind of patterns. Not within the year, and I'm sure there are more (for both Boeing and Airbus), but this one comes to mind on an Airbus that&#
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by doctoring 8y ago
I work in oncology and with some of the people interviewed in the article. I want to emphasize just how exciting this stuff is and how wild it is to have patients who have a belly full of innumerable metastases, for whom 5-10 years ago we&#
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by doctoring 8y ago
At our hospital we routinely use many of these therapies even in patients with a variety of autoimmune conditions. In about a third of patients, they'll have an exacerbation of their underlying autoimmune condition, which fortunately o
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by doctoring 8y ago
I should give a little context: I rarely prescribe opioids to opioid-naive patients — a more common scenario is patients who are already on a regimen that I then continue when they come into the hospital. And certainly not all opioids are t
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by doctoring 8y ago
This piece briefly mentions Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin and the subject of a fantastic and horrifying article in the New Yorker[1]. The scale and reach of these drugs is unbelievable and the lengths the pharmas go to in order to m
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by doctoring 9y ago
I'll try my best to give my two cents (as someone who has done medical school and works in biomedical research). Your explanations all have some merit. Having spent time working in/with the research and clinical trial divisions of
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by doctoring 9y ago
I'm an MD, practicing in the US. I don't know the actual legality. But here's what I do know from attempting to implement multiple projects within the US for clinical care and for clinical research: most providers, hospitals,
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by doctoring 9y ago
It costs a lot, unfortunately. Sequencing is still fairly expensive, and the methods in OP are fairly complex on top of that. There's also the interesting question of: if the test came back positive in a seemingly-healthy control, how
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by doctoring 9y ago
It's not a silly question, it's an interesting one to ask. The short answer is: probably not, but maybe!, as some of these tests and assays are sometimes run on "healthy" people as part of testing and validation. So you
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by doctoring 9y ago
The company mentioned in the original article (and where a lot of the research was done) is a Hopkins spinout -- Personal Genome Diagnostics. They are indeed a member of BloodPAC.
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by doctoring 9y ago
Oh yes... it's a pain in the ass. Recently in the news, too [1]. There weren't many days where the hospitals I've worked at weren't short on something . (And these are like, big name academic medical centers in big U.S.
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by doctoring 9y ago
(I'm a physician who used to work with large pharma companies on trial design and trial innovation.) I think the cost of R&D in pharma that we hear about is sometimes vastly inflated and sometimes pretty accurate, but definitely of
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by doctoring 9y ago
I'm not sure the point of your statement -- even if we accept that "an HIV cure without some advancement in antibiotics will be swapping one epidemic for a series of others", what's our alternative? Not moving forward wi
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by doctoring 10y ago
As a clinician, I'd love a way to see all the past health records of any patient that walked in the door. They usually would love for me to as well. I'm not sure how blockchain as a technology necessarily moves us forward to get t

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