I see a future where people will pay more to speak with a human or switch brands if they are guaranteed 'live' customer service that has not been outsourced.
Happy to say DHL has live people that you can speak with...in Ireland anyway. I was pleasantly surprised. Fedex, on the other hand, only allows you to speak to an agent if you have a Fedex account. Reminds me of the Norwegian shittification ad. How can we take something good and make it worse?
"Leading vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris says there's not enough awareness of the impact of COVID-19 on overall health."
"What many people don't realise is that getting COVID repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage," she says.
Source: archive.md/Qsv13
Gum Disease and Dementia Risk: Why Oral Health is Critical for Seniors dailycaring.com/gum-disease-...
#Alzheimers #dementia #caregiving #health #wellness
Best evidence yet that GLP-1 drugs reduce the risk of substance abuse, from >600,000 US Veterans with T2 diabetes across alcohol, nicotine, opioid, cocaine, cannabis @zalaly.bsky.social
@bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
WELL NOW, would you look at that?
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
The risk of kidney disease increases following SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to influenza 🔓
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.
The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.
This is beside the point -- a very important point -- but that photo show one of the most beautiful urban landscapes I've seen in a long time. A busy city, full of walkers, bikers, and street cars, and no private automobiles in sight. (Or, if there are any, they're damn hard to find.)
A pleasingly meta-meta-analysis with a very displeasing outcome: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
"Medtronic LINQ implantable cardiac monitors are AI-assisted devices that are alleged to have failed to recognize abnormal rhythms or pauses in patients. Again, no incidents of patient harm are known.
Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved.
It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪
Not that most rational people would need to hear this--it is reassuring to know that scientists take the time to evaluate & show that #Acetaminophen aka #Tyelenol aka #Paracetemol when used in #pregnancy DOES NOT have any associations with #Austism spectrum 🧪🧠 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Some good news for a change.
Very exciting news for families affected by Huntington's disease. A light in the darkness...
The artificial sweetener aspartame can be found in everything from chewing gum to tabletop sweeteners. A new study of mice suggests that even at low doses, the sugar substitute may have negative impacts on heart and brain health over the long term.
www.sciencealert.com/even-low-dos...
12 former @fda.gov commissioners from both parties just went on the record in @nejm.org calling Vinay Prasad’s vaccine framework a threat to public health. They bring more than 3 decades of leadership at the agency, and it is hard to think of a more forceful warning. 🧵
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Fabulous news!
Great news for people with asthma!
Two exciting phase two trials show incredible success of mrna vaccines for seasonal flu with infectious symptoms prevented in some healthy individuals. 🧪🧵
A new study found the Trump administration’s cuts to NIH grants disrupted more than 380 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants.
The cuts disproportionately impacted trials on infectious diseases and minority communities.
From Paul Kim on leucovorin: "Proffering a proactive guarantee of approval on the basis of a limited, non-trial-based dossier effectively broadcasts that the FDA is prepared to approve new drugs without clinical trials."
www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
Some good news for a change.
Effectiveness of Colchicine for the Treatment of Long COVID: A Randomized Clinical Trial
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
"among adults with long COVID, colchicine did not improve functional capacity, respiratory function, or inflammatory markers."
#LongCovid #PASC
100% agree. It is difficult to challenge misinformation when you cannot access the data to support your argument.
🧪 New ACOG guidelines warn against cannabis use in pregnancy. Despite its use for nausea, mounting evidence links it to preterm birth, low birth weight, and neurocognitive delays in children. THC is known to cross the placenta and concentrate in the fetal brain.
#MedSky
Correlation is not causation. Read the cited papers!
Hardly a surprise!
