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Post by mhbruin on Oct 30, 2022 8:05:56 GMT -8
"When I was a child, my father cheated and didn't love my family.
Later, my parents divorced.
Soon my mother died in a car accident.
My brother and I could only live in my grandma's old house.
The whole family lived on my grandma's savings.
Grandma just also died. Dad, now 73, had to go out to work to support the family.
Prince William
No OB-GYN? OMG!
In order to satisfy their prerequisites for specialty board certification, OB-GYN physicians in post-graduate medical residency programs must comply with national requirements, which include training in the performance of abortions. Such training is considered essential—and characterized as a “core procedure”—for OB-GYN doctors, in order to properly treat common medical conditions such as miscarriage, infections, and other complications to pregnancy. And in order to receive accreditation, those medical residency programs—typically administered through schools of public health and occurring in hospitals or clinics—must provide that training.
If they continue to provide abortion training in states where the procedure is now outlawed, they could be prosecuted. If they don’t offer it, they risk losing their accreditation, which in turn would render their residents ineligible to receive specialty board certification and imperil recruitment of faculty and medical students.
Some faculty said that with lawmakers increasingly looking to block citizens from getting abortions out of state, they feared that establishing out-of-state training could make them vulnerable to private lawsuits or even charged with aiding and abetting a crime. Attorneys general from Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas, among the states that ban abortion, did not respond to requests for comment about whether they would press such cases.
That is among the reasons that many medical students have said they are applying only to programs where abortion is legal. Public health experts predict that in a few years, patients in abortion-prohibited states, where the ranks of obstetricians are already shrinking, will experience even greater barriers to reproductive health care.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 30, 2022 8:09:16 GMT -8
A Terrible Night in Seoul
At least 153 people have been killed in a crowd crush in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, with many of the victims dying of cardiac arrest, marking the deadliest of such incidents in the country’s history.
The tragic event is being described as a crowd crush or surge, which is different from a stampede.
A crowd crush is when people are packed in a confined space and keep pushing, causing the crowd to fall in a “domino effect” making it hard for people to get up again. The bigger the crowd, the stronger the effect of the crowd crush is.
The result is that people’s lungs do not find enough space to expand, making it difficult to breathe.
“As people struggle to get up, arms and legs get twisted together. Blood supply starts to be reduced to the brain,” Keith Still, a visiting professor of crowd science at the University of Suffolk in England, told NPR after 10 people died at a festival in Houston last November.
“It takes 30 seconds before you lose consciousness, and around about six minutes, you’re into compressive or restrictive asphyxia. That’s a generally the attributed cause of death – not crushing, but suffocation,” he added.
The disaster in Seoul took place on Saturday as a huge crowd thronged a narrow alley during Halloween celebrations in the nightlife district of Itaewon. Witnesses’ harrowing accounts of the incident described people scrambling to get out of the suffocating crowd in the downhill alley as people ended up piling on top of one another.
About 100,000 people thronged the area known for its bars and clubs.
“People kept pushing down into a downhill club alley, resulting in other people screaming and falling down like dominos,” one unidentified witness was quoted as saying by the Yonhap news agency.
One of the deadliest of such incidents took place in Saudi Arabia when more than 1,400 pilgrims died in July 1990 inside al-Muaissem tunnel near the Muslim holy city of Mecca during Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, at the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 30, 2022 8:11:16 GMT -8
Treating Kids with Leukemia
A decade ago, CAR T cell therapy changed the world of cancer treatment, offering a personalized approach to patients with blood cancers like leukemia.
But getting that specialized treatment to patients is costly and time consuming. It can take up to two months to harvest a patient's T cells and reprogram them into cancer-fighters — a nonstarter for many young patients with aggressive cancer.
These patients "don't have months or years to live," said Dr. Mohamed Kharfan-Dabaja, director of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapies at the Mayo Clinic in Florida. "They have weeks." Kharfan-Dabaja was not part of the new research.
A novel approach to CAR T (chimeric antigen receptor T cell) therapy aims to cut down that turnaround time significantly. Instead of reprogramming each patient's cells, researchers are testing the safety of using universal, or "off the shelf," CAR T cells from other patients, preprogrammed to fight cancer. These cells are then tweaked further using another gene-modifying technology — CRISPR — to ensure they are not rejected by the patient's own immune system.
Scientists at University College London in the United Kingdom tested the safety of the experimental approach in six children — mostly toddlers — with advanced leukemia. The research was published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Conventional treatments, like chemotherapy, had already failed in the six children in the study, a phase 1 clinical trial. The goal was to determine whether the new approach was safe. The scientists will determine whether it is effective in future, larger studies.
"These are very difficult children to treat," said Wassim Qasim, a study author and professor of cell and gene therapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London.
The goal of the new treatment approach isn't necessarily curative; instead, it's to get patients into remission so that they are well enough for a bone marrow stem cell transplant.
The new approach is a "bridge to transplant," said Dr. Stephen Gottschalk, head of the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in
Memphis. "If they're not in remission before transplant, their likelihood of relapse is probably 80%."
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 30, 2022 8:14:13 GMT -8
Today's Health Tip: Don't Get Pneumonia This Fall (Or Any Fall for that Matter)
Pharmacies across the United States are reporting shortages of one of the most widely used antibiotics, raising concerns that the medication will be in short supply for the upcoming winter season.
Independent pharmacy owners in Kansas, Georgia and New York confirmed to NBC News that supplies of amoxicillin — commonly prescribed to treat a variety of bacterial infections including ear infections, pneumonia and bronchitis — have been dwindling for weeks. In some cases, drug wholesalers are limiting how much of the medication pharmacies can purchase at one time, likely to avoid running out of them.
“The scary part is, we’re coming into the time of the year where you have the greatest need," said Hugh Chancy, owner of Chancy Drugs, which has six locations in southern Georgia.
Three key amoxicillin manufacturers — Hikma Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in the United Kingdom; Sandoz, based in Switzerland; and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., headquartered in Israel — are reporting shortages of the antibiotic, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which maintains a database of drug shortages.
The products affected include chewable tablets, capsules and powder for an oral liquid or “suspension” that is typically prescribed to children. Because amoxicillin is an antibiotic, it is not used to treat infections caused by viruses, such as Covid, the flu or RSV (respiratory syncytial virus).
It’s not clear what is causing the shortage, or how long it could last.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 30, 2022 8:15:42 GMT -8
Are You Trying to Tell Me That Bleach Doesn't Cure Cancer?
Credible medical professionals are now able to apply for a special verification on YouTube, marking the video giant's latest effort to combat medical misinformation online.
In a blog post shared on Thursday, Dr. Garth Graham, the global head of YouTube Health, wrote that healthcare professionals like doctors, nurses and mental health specialists, can now apply to use the platform's health product features.
YouTube’s health product features were introduced last year but were only available to educational institutions, public health departments, hospitals and government entities.
The health product features include "health source information panels on videos to help viewers identify videos from authoritative sources, and health content shelves that more effectively highlight videos from these sources when you search for specific health topics."
The news comes a year after YouTube announced a total ban on vaccine misinformation and the termination of the accounts of several prominent anti-vaccine influencers, citing “the need to remove egregious harmful content.” That policy was enacted after the company began to see false claims about Covid-19 vaccines “spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general,” according to a company blog post.
The new tools announced Thursday are intended to help users identify reliable sources and weed out those who give medical advice without proper certification.
People Really Were Getting Medical Information From YouTube?
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 30, 2022 8:18:06 GMT -8
First They Came for the Jews
For Jews, just 2 percent of the population but the targets of 55 percent of reported religiously motivated hate crimes, the trend revives centuries-old fears.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 30, 2022 8:18:58 GMT -8
Who Won the Week?
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for issuing a freeze on the buying, selling, and importation of handguns into the country to combat a spike in homicides
All the companies and associates dropping their support of that mentally-unstable rapper who has proudly taken on the mantle of America's #1 anti-Semite
Marriage equality, as the first same-sex marriages begin in Cuba, and tying the knot becomes legal in all of Mexico's provinces
Justice: 3 MAGAts found guilty of aiding the plot to kidnap MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and the MAGAt who pulled DC cop Fanone into the crowd on Jan. 6 gets 7+ years in prison
The Ukrainian Army, for recapturing in two days what it took Putin's drunk and disheveled orcs two months to take in the Bakhmut area
President Biden: economy grows 2.6% in Q3; promotes Covid booster by getting a Fauci ouchie; gas prices still dropping; announces new actions against junk fees by banks, airlines & credit card cos.
The waves of protesters in Iran, led by women and schoolgirls, who show no signs of retreating from the 15th-century government
Rachel Maddow, whose new podcast "Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra" just spent its third week at the top of the podcast charts
American runner Melanie Pozdol, winner of the women’s Beer Mile World Classic in Belgium, running the equivalent of a 6-minute mile with 40 seconds of beer guzzling. USA! USA!
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 30, 2022 8:19:31 GMT -8
Previous Guy's Response to the Attack on Paul Pelosi
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 30, 2022 8:20:33 GMT -8
Fox "News" Response to the Attack on Paul PelosiDevin Nunes' Response to the Attack on Paul PelosiFormer GOP congressman and current Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes apparently finds the home invasion hammer attack by a Donald Trump supporter suspect on the husband of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hilarious. Nunes on Saturday posted an appalling quip about the attack on Truth Social featuring a photo of a man in a monster costume wielding a giant mallet. “At least this guy has his clothes on,” wrote Nunes, referring to early, inaccurate reports that the suspect was in underwear Friday when he broke into Paul Pelosi’s California home that he shares with his wife and assaulted him with a hammer. 
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 30, 2022 8:27:09 GMT -8
This Former President Ain't Previous Guy
Obama, who spoke in front of a Milwaukee crowd on Saturday, slammed 2020-election-denying GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels while calling on residents to not boo — but vote — during the rally, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
The former president also delivered a storm of criticism toward Johnson as he questioned the senator’s relatability with voters due to his support of a tax plan that allowed people to write off the costs of private jets on their tax returns.
“His adult children bought not one, not two but three private planes. Because apparently carpooling wasn’t an option,” Obama said of Johnson’s children.
Obama later went after Johnson on Social Security as he claimed the senator wants to raise the retirement age to 70 and supports a plan that puts Medicare and Social Security “on the chopping block.”
“The point is some of you here are on Social Security, some of your parents are on Social Security, some of your grandparents are on Social Security, you know why they have Social Security? Because they worked for it,” Obama said.
“They worked hard jobs for it, they have chapped hands for it, they have long hours and sore backs and bad knees to get that Social Security,” Obama said. “And if Ron Johnson does not understand that... he should not be your senator from Wisconsin.”
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 30, 2022 8:30:54 GMT -8
I Don't Really Understand What This Means, Either
Don’t look now, Elon Musk, but Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is about to launch a public test version of a new social media app.
The app, Bluesky, is gearing up for a test run just after Musk plunked down $44 billion to buy Twitter. It already has a waiting list of users waiting to try out the app’s beta version.
It’s not yet clear what Blueksky will eventually look like or how it will function, but it has been noted as a rival to Twitter.
Bluesky’s “AT Protocol” is being touted as the critical element of a revolutionary “federated social network” that integrates ideas from the latest “decentralized technologies into a simple, fast, and open network,” according to a company blog. Users will presumably be able to move between several social media platforms using a single browser — Bluesky.
As for being a potential Twitter competitor, Dorsey tweeted earlier this month that it’s a rival to “any company trying to own the underlying fundamentals for social media or the data of the people using it.”
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Post by hasben on Oct 30, 2022 14:19:52 GMT -8
People Really Were Getting Medical Information From YouTube?
I think you'd find that most people today get ALL of their information whether medical or political or... from social media. The majority do not read books or newspapers or magazines or watch TV. In other words nothing with any real credibility.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 31, 2022 8:27:25 GMT -8
People Really Were Getting Medical Information From YouTube? I think you'd find that most people today get ALL of their information whether medical or political or... from social media. The majority do not read books or newspapers or magazines or watch TV. In other words nothing with any real credibility. In other words people are getting no information. I saw polls today that show people trust Republicans more on the economy, guns, and crime, in spite of the fact that they have no policies or terrible ones. People have no idea what the parties are doing or what they want to do. It is depressing. It takes 5 or 10 minutes a day to scan a new web site, even just to read the headlines. |
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