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by medymed 10y ago
Usually pain control and comfort are the purpose. The financial effects are similar to what happens in other fields of medicine, not specific to palliative care. Seeing people die with extreme anxiety and inadequate pain control might chang
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by medymed 10y ago
Article is about free access to bio/med research. Some thoughts: Would love to see rate of adoption of new standards of evidence based medical care as a function of institutional access to top journals or simply Uptodate (the tool peop
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by medymed 10y ago
One approach is to look at a few different but overlapping primers on the same matter and do the exercises. If one treatment doesn't click, another might. And for well-known subjects, topics are often covered in roughly the same order.
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by medymed 10y ago
Is is just me being a n00b or are there a few errors in the equations? Like the exponential definitions of sin and cos, a missing negative sign in proof of m≠n, maybe more later not sure. Somewhat perplexing for someone learning the stuff B
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by medymed 10y ago
There's a big input/output issue here. Which they address, but nonethless which makes the project failure not surprising. The inputs and outputs for a brain/neural network, e.g. pictures as inputs as recognized object as outp
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by medymed 10y ago
As a fellow leftist, I would counter that each side clings to certain politically convenient mistruths, and not recognizing these tendencies in all political groups is indicative of thorough brainwashing.
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If they don't have much context, you could show them software projects tailored to their interests and capabilities/time constraints and ask them if they want to make something like that with you.
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by medymed 10y ago
Also could suggest that by mandating periodic group-connection-reinforcing rituals, like daily/weeky religious or other activity, that a society can reach a connectivity state that's quite inflexible.
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Don't think so, they didn't look at raw dna sequences. They appear to just look at ethnicities, within which there is a lot of genetic variation.
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Stimulant of the masses
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by medymed 10y ago
Neurological manipulation to manage inflammatory condition may have a promising future, and may be a good avenue to pursue for some patients (like people not responding to immunomodulation). At a conference I overheard of botox injection re
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by medymed 10y ago
I agree, SJW is a pretty useless term. You're right. And I don't know much about string theory funding. I can only postulate. Regarding short term vision, medical research funding has consequences on huge outlays of public resour
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by medymed 10y ago
Demethylating agents, HDAC inhibitors, and their like can induce powerful effects on malignancies via (purportedly) primarily epigenetic mechanisms. I've seen patients with astronomically high leukemic counts return to normal blood cou
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by medymed 10y ago
Interesting application of trauma/grief/persecution literary analysis to a leading European figure of the Western canon, as opposed to its more familiar role in literature of groups oppressed by Europeans.
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by medymed 11y ago
There may be some reverse causation--in a country where devastating and chronic illness frequently bankrupts people, it's not too surprising that at least this subset of poor people would be living quite a bit shorter than the average
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by medymed 11y ago
While high school and undergraduates don't often have access to the high-cost infrastructure needed for hard science or biological science, there are vast amounts of data available that enterprising individuals can crunch for next to n
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by medymed 11y ago
Fantastic resource for learning and as a quick reference. Coincidentally was browsing it before I stumbled upon this post.
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by medymed 11y ago
If excess energy consumption is a 'vice', we would be following Malthus's prediction of a vice-based catastrophe before a food based 'Malthusian' catastrophe: "The vices of mankind are active and able ministers
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by medymed 11y ago
Seems like it could be effective to use CRISPR/Cas9 to insert the HIV resistance gene mutation (CCR5-delta32, to replace the normal CCR5 gene) into bone marrow stem cells and then inject those into the person after testing the created
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by medymed 11y ago
It would be great to have this detail of map for immunology...but we can't grind up cells to meaningfully isolate and test enzymes as quickly as the old biochemists because so much depends on signaling the 'state' of the inta
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by medymed 11y ago
The article deems as 'hacktivist' a group that 'changed the levels of chemicals being used to treat tap water.' This doesn't sound much like activism, defined by google as 'the policy or action of using vigorou
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by medymed 11y ago
So the soviets were short on industrial building/transportation resources and had plenty of space versus the san franciscoans who are 'short' on space and have plenty of industrial resources. the soviet constraint was about a
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by medymed 11y ago
After I read your other comments I deleted the first post because I realized you are knowledgable about many issues I brought up and it was non-contributory, apologies. I wish you the best in keeping healthy!
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by medymed 11y ago
When the "system" becomes an adversary in one's fight for health, as a result of cost, restricted access to doctors and their time, and when an ocean of credible (and non-credible) information is available relating the mechan
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by medymed 11y ago
One issue is that it can be difficult to be both lazy and a fully engaged welfare recipient. Given the complexity of eligibility proof and maintaining eligibility for various services (social security, medicaid/medicare, food stamp pol
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by medymed 11y ago
Curiously though, it contributes to falsely exaggerated stereotyping, in the sense that given the title and abstract I might expect a far greater percentage (>2.2%) of moon landing disbelievers among climate change disbelievers until unt
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by medymed 11y ago
Perhaps the NSA should offer insurance. Otherwise, a Facebook+Visa+Google insurance joint venture, where their data is not available to others, could be a formidable company.
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by medymed 11y ago
It means that his decision and commitment overcame the tendency to eat (I assume) excessively and unhealthily, which most people appear to be incapable of without extreme external intervention.
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by medymed 11y ago
I agree with your trend and think it's a good one.The first consideration on the medical differential for sleep anormalities is poor sleep hygiene, as in caffeine in evening, poor environment for sleep, change in daily schedule, acute
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by medymed 11y ago
Went to functional medicine website. Says it integrates traditional medicine plus things like [mind body spirit etc, supplements, detoxification, holism]. Sounds like a few mds wanted to start a brand and get on the supplement train. Choo c

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