Shortness8

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by Shortness8 18d ago
I don't think this is true. As a doctor, anything told to me by a pharmaceutical company (who never directly engage with us as medical staff) is taken with the world's largest pinch of salt. Generally my default is to disregard wh
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Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.(science.org)
369 points by Shortness8 2mo ago|229 comments
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by Shortness8 2mo ago
Alcohol can actually be protective in a paracetamol overdose. Paracetamol itself isn't relatively dangerous, the metabolic product created by the liver is. Alcohol use acutely reduces the levels of these enzymes which convert paracetam
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by Shortness8 3mo ago
Some commentary here: https://korben.info/en/mullvad-cofounder-funding-far-right.h... Daniel Berntsson is still involved with Mullvad and part-owns Mullvad's parent company with his co-founder.
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by Shortness8 8mo ago
The Herald[1] and STV News (neutral as a broadcaster) are not strong Pro-Indy groups. The National certainly is. DOI: Scotsman not in favour of independence. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Herald_(Glasgow)#Politic
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by Shortness8 1y ago
Don't often comment on HN but have to point this out as a med student in the UK: the cost-benefit roughly works out for those in favour of giving the therapy when the alternative is a lifetime of coming to hospital 3 times a week for F
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by Shortness8 2y ago
Big thing from this from me is Signal is exploring freemium features. I sincerely hope this doesn't happen - as I say this as a monthly donor.
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The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality – SXSW Live [video](youtube.com)
2 points by Shortness8 2y ago|1 comments
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by Shortness8 2y ago
I'm sorry you went through this experience, and I'm glad your son is alive and (hopefully) well. I don't have the ins and outs of your case. I'm a student, not an obsterician, or neonatologist. That said, I do know deliv
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by Shortness8 2y ago
This is not the case. Medical school places are up over a third since 2017. We import the amount of doctors we graduate every year, but we haven't meaningfully increased the amount of specialists and GP's we train in over a decade