Cass

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Are We Closer to a Cure for Diabetes?(science.slashdot.org)
2 points by Cass 2y ago|0 comments
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by Cass 3y ago
These sort of articles pop up every few months and make people hopeful for a cure, but this is sadly unlikely to ever be a viable one. Stem cell transplantation is a standard treatment for several blood cancers, but will almost certainly ne
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by Cass 3y ago
Oh, and I phrased that badly, but he didn't drink a ton of tea at the hospital. The hot water for tea comes in limited amounts from those samovar type things, and he didn't want to use too much of it, so he only drank 2-3 cups per
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by Cass 3y ago
Oh, certainly, there's nothing to prove it was the green tea. We did rule out any other cause of liver failure we possibly could, but there's nothing to say we didn't miss something. But green tea in high doses IS a known cau
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by Cass 3y ago
He didn't drink 4-5 Liters at the hospital, just a few (two or three) small cups per day. We'd asked about alcohol and drug consumption, but didn't think to ask about his normal food and drink consumption beyond asking for po
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by Cass 3y ago
The most House (the TV show)-like case that ever happened in my medical career was the case of the patient with liver failure due to green tea intoxication. A young man presented in our hospital with acute liver failure. He'd just spen
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by Cass 3y ago
That's a bizarre line of thought to me. If you build an expensive structure for fortification, you don't usually get to the interior design and then go "Oh fuck it, this extra safety measure wouldn't cost anything, but i
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by Cass 4y ago
The phrasing of this question seems meant to imply that because one explanation doesn't satisfy you (better diagnosis), it must be the other (vaccines). This sets up a false dichotomy, though--there's no reason it would have to
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by Cass 4y ago
I assume they're referring to the over a billion people living in China. Whether China is a place you'd want to live depends entirely on your personal cirumstances, of course.
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by Cass 4y ago
Most wheelchair users are either elderly or suffering from some other deteriorating condition associated with pain, overall weakness, or instability, and will therefore likely not be able to use these. (Note that even in the promotional ima
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by Cass 4y ago
Not in Germany, they don't. Barmer is a "gesetzliche Krankenkasse"/public insurance, which means most of their members' premiums are legally limited to a certain percentage of their members' income, and while t
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by Cass 4y ago
This isn't meant for heli-skiers who go out with a few thousand bucks of equipment. None of the average hikers I know own a satellite phone, plenty of them like to hike alone, and an hour of walking into the woods (hardly a strenuous h
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by Cass 4y ago
In areas so remote that modern medical treatments aren't available at all, people do often still grow their own medical plants. If lack of finances is an issue, growing your own herb garden certainly isn't the solution. These plan
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by Cass 4y ago
That's already true of most sports, though. There's plenty of mechanical constructs that can move faster than the fastest human. The challenge is to be the fastest human using nothing but a human body, not to outrun a car or a boa
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by Cass 5y ago
The fun thing about art criticism, and the reason I firmly believe in the "death of the author" school of critique, is that even the choices an artist made in the face of constraints, or as a snap decision at three am, often do ca
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by Cass 5y ago
I've used a bunch of different pillows (cherry stone, wheat, etc) and found that, while the initial heat is great and feels better than a hot water bottle, they only stay properly hot for about five to seven minutes. Once when I had a
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by Cass 5y ago
Is there an easy way to make this work for a non-programmer, i.e. without installing a whole python environment? I'm less interested in cloning specific voices than in getting a high-quality text-to-speech program that'll read me
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by Cass 5y ago
A diagnosis of anxiety is usually not an out but the beginning of the hard work of improvement. The generally accepted treatment for anxiety is therapy that will encourage you to put yourself into manageable but challenging situations where
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by Cass 5y ago
The article mentions that one patient has an unexplained brain injury comparable to that caused by the shockwave of an explosion. I'm sure the embassy isn't going to release this info to the press, but I'd really like to know
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by Cass 5y ago
I'm a successful 33 year old adult in a career ideally suited to the way my brain works, so I was VERY skeptical about whether it would make any difference to my life to get diagnosed or go on meds. Now that I have, I can confidently s
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by Cass 5y ago
I like this scavengers idea. How far is it to Cairo, and what's unemployment like after Corona killed the tourism industy? Unlock all the containers, tell people you're paying them fifteen bucks an hour to come unload, AND they ge
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by Cass 6y ago
There's plenty of political views so toxic and harmful they don't deserve civility. An easy litmus test: are you advocating harm to a person for merely existing in the world, living with the skin color and sexuality they were born
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by Cass 6y ago
The theory I've heard is that to breed a deadly plague, you need to live in close contact with animals. A well-adapted virus won't usually kill its host, so most deadly viruses jump over from the animal hosts they adapted to. Euro
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by Cass 6y ago
The Cueva de los Verdes, a famous cave on Lanzarote, was named after the Verdes family and contains nothing green. (Well worth seeing if you ever get a chance to go.)
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by Cass 6y ago
The math on this doesn't add up because your career doesn't just have to finance your retirement, it also has to finance the decades of your life before that. Sure, if you had 150k at age 18 and weren't going to need another
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by Cass 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if you're actually quite a good pick for the floor wax commercial demographic. Now you, specifically, may not have waxable floors or an interest in floor maintenance, but the more interesting questions is,
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by Cass 6y ago
They suggest treating only 5-7% of the blood, which is 250 - 350 ml. It's still going to be an elaborate procedure, but a lot less so than hemodialysis, which moves much larger volumes of blood. You wouldn't even need a large-bore
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by Cass 6y ago
My Bavarian hospital is on there as yellow. I'm currently sitting in the empty urgent care clinic and just had a chat with the nurse from the almost empty emergency room about the fact that both the COVID-19 ward and the ICU are far fr
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by Cass 6y ago
Speaking as a physician who's been handed a lot of respirators from ever more dodgy sources, how do I tell whether I'm given a counterfeit N95?
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by Cass 7y ago
Can't you get your doctor to give you a note that you have to work from home for now for medical reasons? It seems that in most EU countries, your employer would be forced to respect that. If they refuse, get a sick note and stay home,

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