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by epmaybe 9y ago
Can you source that? I'm having trouble finding much in the way of that claim.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
I'm not sure that I follow. Does high LDL cholesterol not increase your risk of cardiovascular disease?
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Lots of medical students have illness anxiety while in medical school. So far it hasn't bothered me too much, but I have friends that are on medication because of how stressed they would get thinking they had symptoms pertaining to dis
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by epmaybe 9y ago
I jumped ship from it after the Verizon ownership. I only used Flickr for storage, not for the social aspect, so I just moved everything to Google Photos. I don't personally notice a huge decrease in quality in their compressed picture
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by epmaybe 9y ago
How does your rank on HN as a female matter for us to get your point? To me, the FYIs (which I have seen at least two of your comments in this thread) aren't letting your comments stand on their own merits. For what it's worth, yo
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by epmaybe 9y ago
I wasn't arguing that, I was suggesting that if it wasn't clear why the tsh level is high or low, to add on a t4 level check. Which is what is currently done, at least in the US.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
To add to the critiques: the usable space on a 13" retina MacBook pro can be increased in the software to support up to 1680x1050 if I'm not mistaken. Further, there are apps that can extend that up to the native resolution.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
But then why not just look at the t4 and t3 levels?
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Is it not? I was under the impression that as providers we should provide affordable care as well. For example, theres no reason to throw every test at a patient that has clear signs of a certain bacterial infection. Maybe cost is less of a
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by epmaybe 9y ago
I'm between two sides on this. Access to new life saving medications is fantastic and therefore should be celebrated. On the other hand, cost of the drug makes it inaccessible to a wide range of people. Maybe someone more knowledgeable
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Here's your problem with this. The moderator, Jim Holt, isn't a physicist or cosmologist, he's a journalist/philosopher. You're right, it is bad manners, but the fact that it didn't happen with the other men on
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Wouldn't it make sense to try and compare it to one of Intel's more recent lower spec offerings anyways? Something that compares in terms of price and form factor.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Whenever I read stories like these I tend to take it with a grain of salt. There is always another part of the story we are missing. It will however be interesting to follow the development of this. Hopefully Washington Post or another outl
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by epmaybe 9y ago
I think that colloquially we consider "cash-strapped" to mean significantly lower on funds than the authors were. You're not cash strapped if you have borrowed; by definition you are no longer low on funds. A minor point in t
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by epmaybe 9y ago
If you said "purinergic signaling" then yes. I think the one used quite often is clopidogrel (plavix) that inhibits the ADP receptor on platelets to prevent them from aggregating. As far as I know, though, the drugs studied that i
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by epmaybe 9y ago
If the diagnosis rate (incidence) increases, and people aren't dying rapidly, then the prevalence would surely increase as well. Unless you're using prevalence in the context of total people affected by a disease, regardless of wh
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by epmaybe 9y ago
There was a climate crisis in 2008-2009?
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by epmaybe 9y ago
50%??? That seems crazy to me, like something from decades past. If you don't mind me asking, what specialty are you pursuing?
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by epmaybe 9y ago
A random theory, if you will: glucocorticoids have a weak affinity for the mineralocorticoid receptors (aldosterone, salt and water retention). The increased salt reabsorption caused by this could cause an osmotic gradient driving calcium e
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Yes, your body has receptors that look for when the osmolarity gets too low (edit: I meant too high) in your blood. If it is, they will fire and induce feelings of thirst.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Makes me wonder, is there a way to make sure that no copper is still present after the microbes are all dead? Like throw some penicillamine in there to chelate the exact quantity of copper dissolved?
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by epmaybe 9y ago
True, this is indeed possible. However, note that the FDA survey cited only asked 500 physicians. The survey was also done in 2004, which I believe is prior to the cracking down on gift giving and pharmaceutical companies giving kickbacks t
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by epmaybe 9y ago
No, I don't think so. Live virus vaccines are generally attenuated so that they don't elicit the same effects as the normal virus. However, if they didn't delete that specific virulent quality that causes immunosuppression, p
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Just off the top of my head, reversing a synthesis reaction seems expensive without knowing any reaction intermediates. Not to mention that the lawsuit you would get handed would be a slam dunk case for any lawyer. That being said, other co
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by epmaybe 9y ago
It seems weird then, that the American medical association lobbies against DTC advertising.
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by epmaybe 9y ago
I'm not certain that marketing plays that huge of a role. They make the only drug on the market to treat hemolytic uremic syndrome, every medical student has to learn about it. Must be some other costs, or hiding of true profit as you
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by epmaybe 9y ago
I don't claim to understand this aspect of healthcare very well. But I've definitely observed that the list price of medications keeps on going up, insurance keeps on paying for it, and we keep on having higher premiums. Who wins?
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Every time someone brings up social good, I keep wanting to know what that means. Can we have a truly objective definition of 'social good'? Or is it entirely dependent on the individual person's definition of what that means
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by epmaybe 9y ago
Sure, but that's not really answering the question is it. I think I wouldn't necessarily put that I use Hitler on my CV, due to the negative feedback I would receive from others not in the field. But on the other hand, barely anyo
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by epmaybe 9y ago
From the article itself: "...this study found that socioeconomic and race/ethnicity factors alone explained 60% of the variation in life expectancy. At the same time, 74% of the variation was explained by behavioral and metabolic

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