esm

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by esm 2y ago
I am sorry you are going through that. Really awful. Credit to you for tracking the symptoms so closely. The cyclicality of the nausea in your graph is interesting. Personally, I find cyclic vomiting syndrome is underdiagnosed and exists al
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by esm 7y ago
It is harder for infection fighting cells to get into the joint space compared to other tissues
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by esm 8y ago
The counter argument that I have heard is that patient handoffs are where a disproportionate number of errors occur. Increasing the number of shifts means that more patients in the ED or on the floor will have care fragmented between provid
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by esm 8y ago
Interestingly, this gets into the territory of the Framingham Heart Study, a long-running, prospective cohort study of cardiovascular disease risk. The data are mixed. One analysis, for example, showed that "Type A behavior" was n
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by esm 8y ago
I think that you would have to correct for socio-economic status, which is strongly tied to health outcomes.
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Square Cash is letting some users buy and sell Bitcoin(techcrunch.com)
3 points by esm 9y ago|0 comments
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by esm 9y ago
PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is Truvada, which is part of the anti-retroviral regimen given to many HIV(+) patients. The idea is that any virions that enter your body are killed before they have a chance to set up shop. It is a reasonabl
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by esm 9y ago
It even works the other way around. IIRC, there have been something like 2 documented cases of HIV(-) people becoming seropositive while taking PrEP as prescribed.
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by esm 9y ago
Yep. Triple therapy is now standard in HIV treatment. The odds of developing mutations to 2-3 agents simultaneously are very low
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by esm 9y ago
Gut bacteria have many functions, and there are likely more out there to be discovered than we know about currently. One of the functions that I find interesting is that bacteria help to synthesize vitamin K, which is required by the liver
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by esm 9y ago
Payments may affect prescribing, but I think that system factors count for more than many people realize. By way of an example, imagine the following case, which is reasonably common at the outpatient medicine office I am rotating through:
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by esm 9y ago
I think by cure they mean eradicate the virus, rather than suppress it. Most people can live relatively normal lives by keeping their viral load low, but this involves taking expensive medications every day for the rest of one's life.
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by esm 9y ago
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. The body kills all of its insulin-producing cells, often in childhood. No matter what sort of food you eat, you need insulin if you want your cells to use the building blocks! As an aside, the story
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3D Print a Set of Adjustable Glasses Frames(thingiverse.com)
2 points by esm 10y ago|0 comments
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by esm 10y ago
It's an unsatisfying answer, but Alzheimer's (and most disease for that matter) is a combination of genetic risk and what you do with your life. It is hard to know exactly how much genes or the environment contribute. There are su
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by esm 10y ago
Spores formed by bacteria like C. botulinum or B. anthracis are also very difficult to neutralize. The key is knowing if there is an exposure risk and taking added precautions. The good news is that some people are "immune" to dev
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by esm 10y ago
Looks awesome. Did you find HIPAA or the need for an extremely low error rate to be burdensome in building the app?
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Background on the Falcon 9 Launch(spacex.com)
258 points by esm 11y ago|139 comments