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Post by mhbruin on Jun 22, 2023 8:41:08 GMT -8
Texas: Where Men Are Men and Women Are Sick
Reproductive care and women’s health are worse in Texas than in nearly every other U.S. state, according to a new health system ranking by The Commonwealth Fund.
The Lone Star State ranked 49th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, beating out only Mississippi and New Mexico for the bottom spot in women’s health. This year marks the first time reproductive and women’s health had its own category in the annual scorecard, compiled by the nonprofit foundation that promotes “a high-performing, equitable health care system.”
Texas fared about the same overall, ranking 48th when researchers took all seven broad health categories into account. Arkansas came in 47th while Oklahoma, West Virginia and Mississippi rounded out the rest of the bottom five states.
The 2023 scorecard, which uses most-recently-available 2021 data, does not include data to reflect the implications of abortion restrictions or bans that states enacted after the fall of Roe vs. Wade in June of last year. The state of women’s health in the year before abortion bans went into place still speaks to potential future findings, Commonwealth Fund researchers said.
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Post by mhbruin on Jun 22, 2023 8:42:38 GMT -8
I Don't Know a Thing About Rat Lungwort, But I Don't Want to Be Anywhere Near It.
Parts of Broward County, Florida, are under quarantine after a giant African land snail — described as "one of the most damaging snails in the world" — was detected earlier this month, agriculture authorities said.
Officials “confirmed the detection” of the snail in the Miramar area of Broward County on June 2 following a report to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
A quarantine area was established Tuesday from Pembroke Road and South University Drive, south to NW 215th Street and east to SW 62nd Avenue, the agency said. A map shared by the department shows two specific treatment areas.
Under the quarantine, it’s illegal to move the snail or move plants, compost, soil, or building materials through or from a quarantine area without a compliance agreement.
The giant African land snail, which is illegal to import or have in the U.S. without a permit, consumes at least 500 different types of plants, according to the FDACS. They can be devastating to Florida agriculture as they “cause extensive damage to tropical and subtropical environments,” the agency said.
The creatures also pose “serious health risk to humans” by carrying parasite rat lungwort, or meningitis in humans, the FDACS said.
Now a treatment process is underway to “eradicate” the agricultural pest using metaldehyde-based molluscicide, or snail bait.
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Post by mhbruin on Jun 22, 2023 8:45:37 GMT -8
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Post by mhbruin on Jun 22, 2023 8:47:34 GMT -8
US Inflation Is So Bad ... Wait ... What?
U.K. inflation came in hotter than expected in May, as consumer prices rose by an annual 8.7%, unchanged from the previous month.
Economists polled by Reuters had projected an annual rise in the headline consumer price index of 8.4%.
On a monthly basis, headline CPI increased by 0.7%, while core inflation — which excludes volatile energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices — gained by an annual 7.1%, up from 6.8% in April and the highest rate since March 1992, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Meanwhile the US Economy Keeps Chugging Along
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Post by mhbruin on Jun 22, 2023 8:50:25 GMT -8
If You Understand Everything in this Story, You Don't Have Brain FogCOVID can cause neurons to fuse together, causing some to completely stop workingIt’s been known for some time that SARS-CoV-2 can cause clusters of cells to form. These clusters, called syncytia, are often found in the lungs when a person contracts severe COVID-19. The cells fuse together, assisted by adhesion factors. “Most of the cells end up dying,” said the authors of a study in 2020 that specifically looked at pneumocytes in the lungs. Scientists now have found that syncytia can form among neurons, too. The findings were published this month in the article “SARS-CoV-2 infection and viral fusogens cause neuronal and glial fusion that compromises neuronal activity” (Science Advances, 2023). Ramón Martinez-Mármol and colleagues performed the research. Martinez-Mármol and associates found that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is the culprit, leading to multinucleated cells (i.e., cells with more than one nucleus) and subsequent neuronal malfunction. The authors explain that “ n non-neuronal tissues, enveloped viruses and reoviruses use specialized molecules called fusogens to fuse with host membranes and enter cells.” SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped virus.
Once inside the cell, the virus hijacks the cell’s machinery, creating particles that “redecorate” the membrane of the cell to allow for fusion with nearby cells.
“This results in the formation of multinucleated syncytia, which allow viral propagation ‘from within,’ without the need for virion release into the extracellular space,” the authors state.
In other words, the virus causes cells to fuse so that they become one cell with multiple nuclei, and these cells can then fuse with others. This allows the virus to spread in a way that may help it evade the immune system.
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Post by hasben on Jun 22, 2023 11:13:34 GMT -8
How Much Do I Have to Pay Never to Hear About Either of These Again?
But it's so much fun. I want to see them brawling in the parking lot. If Boebert loses she will pull out her AK and finish the job.
giant African land snail
They came by ship escargo t.
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Post by mhbruin on Jun 23, 2023 8:47:37 GMT -8
How Much Do I Have to Pay Never to Hear About Either of These Again? But it's so much fun. I want to see them brawling in the parking lot. If Boebert loses she will pull out her AK and finish the job. giant African land snail They came by ship escargo t. How did I miss that pun. I'm so ashamed! |
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