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by notadoc 8y ago
Yes they accept that large trials are obviously needed. > The results suggest that memory loss may be reversed and improvement sustained with the therapeutic program, but Bredesen cautioned that the results need to be replicated. > “T
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by notadoc 8y ago
This is likely the study referred to, out of UCLA: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221920/
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by notadoc 8y ago
> Too many companies want to cure a disease with a drug. Sustained treatment of symptoms is where the money is, cures are not. Putting patients on a maintenance drug regimen is longterm revenue stream. > He has published about it and
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by notadoc 8y ago
Maybe a long time ago. Politics have dramatically since changed Medicare, which is why nearly all seniors buy supplement plans today.
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by notadoc 8y ago
How do you know? Do you work in a pain clinic? Are you a doctor who has worked with these patients for decades, or a researcher in the field? Or are you just repeating talking points from the latest media hysteria and politically driven mor
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by notadoc 8y ago
Related: > The research found, on average, children were playing outside for just over four hours a week https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/27/children...
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by notadoc 8y ago
> You could not see the shore because it was completely covered in a layer of garbage. It was like living on top of a landfill. I've seen the same thing in many different parts of the world. The coastlines are an absolute mess, but
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by notadoc 8y ago
And nearly every other beach in the world. The amount of trash on shorelines, floating around, embedded in reef, etc is staggering. The next time you're on vacation in the Caribbean, SE Asia, or South Pacific, wake up extra early and h
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by notadoc 8y ago
Abusing sleeping pills is a great way to make it very difficult for people who actually need sleeping pills to not be able to get sleeping pills. This applies equally to many other medications too, including the freshly politically demonize
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by notadoc 8y ago
Except that, statistically, most baby boomers in the USA have zero to little saved for retirement, and can't afford to retire, and so they keep working.
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by notadoc 8y ago
From an employer standpoint, educated and experienced = expensive
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Patients' Drug Options Under Medicaid Heavily Influenced by Drugmakers(npr.org)
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by notadoc 8y ago
What an embarrassment. This particular generation of MacBook Pro can't be abandoned fast enough. Flush the whole thing and start over.
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by notadoc 8y ago
> Plus, the existing way works, so not much incentive to replace it with something speculative. Except the existing way is quickly no longer working, hence antibiotic resistance. Also, it's not speculative, phage therapy works.
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by notadoc 8y ago
Difficult to patent. Likely substantial costs to build and maintain a very large phage library. Often each particular patient needs individualized treatment which is a laborious process. I'm sure there are regulatory hurdles in the USA
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by notadoc 8y ago
My guess would be to see what people are typing but not submitting, along with what they're searching for, commenting, etc.
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by notadoc 8y ago
Here's what is actually being run http://dmauro.github.io/Keypress/
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by notadoc 8y ago
Phage therapy is the most glaringly obvious to me, particularly as antibiotic resistance increases while the pipeline of new drugs is nearly nonexistent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
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by notadoc 8y ago
> When going to a town not far away was an adventure in itself, today going across the globe is nearly yawn inducing. Indeed there was novelty to even somewhat local travel, now it's routine and ingrained. And flying across the worl
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by notadoc 8y ago
Performance looks great but being soldered in is disappointing. It's much nicer when RAM and disk is user upgradable.
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by notadoc 8y ago
My suspicion is that it comes down to the quality of the individual programs, and likely the educators too, and what the kids are (or aren't) doing. Keep in mind that Bing School in Palo Alto has a giant wait list, and it's not be
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by notadoc 8y ago
Yes of course the user is the problem.
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by notadoc 8y ago
Bring back the horse and carriage? Mule teams? We may have just stumbled upon the next big startup craze! Who needs scooters and self-driving cars when you can hop on a donkey that navigates slowly and entirely for you?
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by notadoc 8y ago
Your reply to "anecdata" is.... your personal anecdata? That's fascinating. Anyway I am glad you personally don't mind changing long standardized keyboarding habits by using software modifications to make up for befuddli
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by notadoc 8y ago
Interesting way to look at it, I have never met anyone with that particular way of thinking about children. Most people I know made decisions about having children in terms of resources. Mainly, about available time and/or money.
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by notadoc 8y ago
Touch Bar kills it. I am a touch typer. I use the escape key constantly. I use the function keys frequently. Like every other touch typer I know, none of us want to look at our fingers to type anything, let alone to look down and navigate a
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by notadoc 8y ago
I use the hardware escape key and function keys dozens if not hundreds of times per work day, and like most touch typers the last thing I want to do is look down at my fingers ever to type anything, let alone at some microscopic screen to f
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by notadoc 8y ago
Great. When can we get a pro MacBook Pro without the non-pro Touch Bar and with a pro reliable keyboard?
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by notadoc 8y ago
> ...How much further are we going to let this sort of thing evolve? If you have read any sci-fi from the early/mid 20th century, you already know the answer to that.
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by notadoc 8y ago
Surely much more to come too.

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