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reddig33 , (edited ) in Louisiana Doctors Are Fighting GOP Bill That Wants to Criminalize Possession of Abortion Pills

Six years from now after this passes: “Louisiana struggling due to doctor shortage.”

jeffw OP ,
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

Already true though

brygphilomena , in FDA panel to consider MDMA for PTSD treatment

I hope they do. MDMA can have incredible therapeutic effects. It always made me so empathetic and connected to those around me.

Cruxifux , in A Penn study on racial bias in health care algorithms shows “race is a bad variable”

Shocker

MaximilianKohler , in Colon cancer rates have been rising for decades in younger people, study finds

All kinds of chronic disease are on the rise, among younger and younger people. No one seems to care enough to do anything about it.

theareciboincident , in Colon cancer rates have been rising for decades in younger people, study finds

There are studies gaining traction that pretty conclusively prove it’s due to shit diets.

Eat more veggies, fiber, and bioavailable nutrients and the rates go way down.

Turns out when you feed kids apple-flavored sugar water and ultraprocessed pop tarts and Hostess donuts literally their entire lives, their health goes to shit

Let’s remember while lazy and incompetent parents have always existed, it’s never been this fucking bad. Households working 10+ hours a day struggle to live without kids as it is in the richest nation in the world.

When your back is broken, you can’t buy your kid a reliable used car let alone college, you will never retire, and you will never own a home, it turns out raising an iPad baby with a jar full of cookies happens easier than you think.

unexposedhazard , in Social media abstinence can boost self-esteem

I mean i know this is necessary science but:

"You know that thing that has been proven many times to fuck up peoples self esteem? Yeah, if u dont do that it will stop fucking up your self esteem! Yeeeah big discovery i know."

Badeendje , in A Penn study on racial bias in health care algorithms shows “race is a bad variable”
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Does that not depend on where you are doing the analysis? Because plenty of diseases are more and others less common in specific races. I also don't know if diseases present different across races.

But there is definitely a good warning that ai can be plenty biased if the dataset is biased.. which historically it will be.

Moobythegoldensock ,

That’s what the article is about. Because race itself is not real (it’s a social construct humans made up,) race is working as a proxy in these situations. The push is to find the actual, objective factors that this subjective category is a proxy for, and then make decisions based on those objective things rather than using a proxy.

gregorum , in Social media abstinence can boost self-esteem
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

It’s true. I quit Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and now I think I’m better than everybody.

hydroptic , in First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later

[the transplant team] said they didn’t have any indication that he died as a result of the transplant.

Well, at least the concept is probably valid, then.

Wanderer ,

I know fuck all about this. But from what I read the main concern happens in the real short term like hours and then days.

It seems like two months is good news.

DmMacniel , in First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later

The patients name is metal AF.

Dasus ,
@Dasus@lemmy.world avatar

Dick Slayer

ID411 , in First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later

2 months after the pig

LouNeko , in First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later

Well, kidney problems rarely do come alone.

boraca ,

And the fact he was Given one means he did not qualify for a human organ, because there was no prognosis of him living long enough after transplant.

Bonesince1997 , in A new Covid variant has taken over, and experts predict a small summer wave

Hospitals aren't even required to post covid data anymore, per the CDC.

TonyTonyChopper ,
@TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz avatar

thanks Obama

reagansrottencorpse , in A new Covid variant has taken over, and experts predict a small summer wave

"The CDC does not collect regular data on how Covid symptoms are evolving over time, "

Oh good, that's comforting.

Tire ,

There’s another article linked in this one that talks about how the symptoms have gotten more mild with these variants. They are having trouble distinguishing COVID from allergies and the common cold. But yes it would still be good to track them.

cabron_offsets ,

Yeah bruh, I have covid right now and I am simultaneously cold and hot, and I’d like to rip my own face off.

Tire ,

Sorry to hear that. I hope you feel better soon.

cabron_offsets ,

Thanks. This bout is much easier than when I got Omicron.

piefedderatedd , in First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later

Saw this article in local newspapers today with one notable exception. Found it in another article linked in the above apnews article.

The most ambitious attempt so far came in January, when doctors at the University
of Maryland Medical Center transplanted a pig heart into a dying 57-year-old.
David Bennett survived for two months, evidence that xenotransplantation was at
least possible. But initial testing missed that the organ harbored an animal virus.
What caused Bennett’s new heart to fail and whether that virus played any role still
isn’t known, the Maryland researchers recently reported in the New England Journal of
Medicine.

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