#Diseases

In the week ending 18 December 2020, there were just 984 deaths in England and Wales from respiratory diseases other than COVID-19. That's nearly half the 1,839 deaths from respiratory
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Fading Puppy Syndrome (FPS) is a term used to refer to a condition in puppies where they refuse to thrive & die within the first 2 to 3 weeks of
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Assuming that I'd be dropped in the same place in AD 20, I'd struggle to find food and shelter while also trying to stay clear of the indigenous population, since
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Why Cannibalism is Good, Actually : THE THREAD so, first we need to look at what the common arguments against cannibalism are. the most general one is an argument from
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My first thread: the promise by @POTUS re: #vaccines reminds me that this month marks 20 years since the death of my great uncle, Joseph Melnick, below (dead center) among
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The Toronto Star editorial board is now meeting with federal procurement minister Anita Anand. Topic today: COVID-19 vaccines! Follow along with me here.https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/02/08/anita-anand-canadas-procurement-minister-wi
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We have been taught to believe that vaxxines saved us from infectious diseases in the 20th century. Even though there have been scores of credible doctors with dissenting opinions about
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Interesting GWAS of human ageing based on PCA analysis of multiple ageing phenotypes (mother and father life span, longevity etc.) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.427837v1 As I often recommend, here too effect size plot
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It's been about two weeks since I flew and boy do I have an update! I've spent some quality ER time. Let's unpack what happened and why flying is a
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A darkly funny thing about avian leukosis is that when it emerged it was initially referred to as "chicken cancer" so I have a bunch of frantic letters from people
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40 years ago a rare cancer, Kaposi’s sarcoma, was reported to have been diagnosed in 41 homosexual men. Over time, cases of pneumocystis pneumonia was also being diagnosed in mostly
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The American occupation of Okinawa is blamed for many things—destroying the environment, secretly hosting nuclear weapons, troops regularly committing violent crimes, etc.—including a shift in local diet that has led
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When foreign messenger RNA enters your cell, there are toll like receptors that can identify them and start a cytokine inflammatory cascade and also type 1 interferon. In particular, toll
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I'm a scientist who studies threats like pandemics, esp how climate change accelerates risk of diseases. The next super virus is right around the corner. Read about Disease X in
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Second episode of the new medical drama Transplant made me have all the feels. #endometriosis and #adenomyosis are very real. Too man doctors signed off my pain until one doctor
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Recent quotes from state epidemiologists & health officials from around the world.... 1/ “The virus has done the so-called 'harvest', has therefore accelerated the clinical path of fragile people. It
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