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Patient-Reported Treatment Outcomes in ME/CFS and Long COVID

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LongCovidPharmD: “Yesterday, a preprint including data analysis of my TREATME survey results was released. For those who haven’t heard, this survey collected pertinent information regarding 140+ different medications, supplements, and non-drug interventions from nearly 4,000 Long COVID and ME/CFS patients. For those who participated in the survey, THANK YOU! I hope the paper emphasizes the… Continue Reading

Want to donate to charity? Here are 10 guidelines for giving effectively

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Vox: “Giving to charity is great, not just for the recipients but for the givers, too. But it can be intimidating to know how to pick the best charity when there are thousands of worthy causes to choose from, and especially when so many are suffering around the world. Yet that suffering makes it all… Continue Reading

Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking

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“A majority of Americans say they have confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interests. Confidence ratings have moved slightly higher in the last year, marking a shift away from the decline in trust seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new Pew Research Center survey of 9,593 U.S. adults conducted Oct. 21-27, 2024,… Continue Reading

Genetic Discrimination Is Coming for Us All

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The Atlantic: [unpaywalled] “Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health risks. It’s perfectly legal…Studies have shown that people seek out additional insurance when they have increased genetic odds of becoming ill or dying. “Life insurers carefully evaluate each applicant’s health, determining premiums and coverage based on life expectancy,” Jan Graeber, a senior… Continue Reading

RFK Jr. Healthcare Claims Depository

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NewsGuard’s Reality Check – RFK Jr. Healthcare Claims Depository – Explore the provably false health-related claims promoted by Kennedy and his anti-vaccine nonprofit Children’s Health Defense Overview – This depository documents the provably false health-related claims promoted by Kennedy and his Children’s Health Defense anti-vaccine nonprofit. Provably False Claims – NewsGuard has identified 90 false… Continue Reading

NIH Bioart and Free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms

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Official release is coming soon. The NIAID Visual and Medical Arts Unit in collaboration with NIAID Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) have developed a library of biomedical and scientific icons made available for use in figures, presentations, websites, and print materials. The icons have been created by medical illustrators and biomedical visualization specialists to… Continue Reading

Spreadsheet of the longer-term implications of #COVID19 infections

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Augie Ray @[email protected] – My spreadsheet of the longer-term implications of COVID19 infections has now reached 1,100 studies. Recent additions show COVID and Long COVID causes fatigue, heart arrhythmias, reduced white blood cell count, T-cell exhaustion, lower quality of life, cognitive impairment, insomnia, erectile dysfunction, and persistent liver damage. Continue Reading

GPO Quadruples Number of Congressionally Mandated Reports Since Launch

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U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) now has more than 500 Congressionally Mandated Reports (CMR) from more than 75 Federal agencies available for free public access on GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This number has quadrupled since GPO first put CMRs online in December 2023.… Continue Reading

What We Know About Covid’s Impact on Your Brain

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Bloomberg [unpaywalled] – Scientists are worried that persisting cognitive issues may signal a coming surge of dementia and other mental conditions – “Many of Covid’s earliest and most alarming effects involve the brain, including a lost sense of smell, sluggish thinking, headaches, delirium and strokes. More than four years after the pandemic began, researchers are… Continue Reading

How to Delete Your 23andme Data Amid the Company’s Turmoil

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Lifehacker: …What happens when you delete your 23andme data? – Deleting your 23andme data doesn’t necessarily withdraw it from studies, especially since the data was “de-identified,” that is, stripped from your name and personal information. It does mean that your data will not be used in future research projects. 23andme explains their deletion policies here… Continue Reading