Modern medicine is just amazing

[rick49]

Trends in the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus from the 1970s to the 1990s

CONCLUSIONS:

"In the present community-based sample of middle-aged adults, we observed a doubling in the incidence of type 2 diabetes over the last 30 years."

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16785337

"This slide shows the trend in diagnosed diabetes in the United States from 1958 through 2015. The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes increased from 0.93% in 1958 to 7.40% in 2015."

www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/slides/long_term_trends.pdf

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Wrong diet, wrong lifestyle. It takes 'experts' to tell us that, then the system feeds from the information.

[Marshall]

Studies are showing that psilocybin is very effective in treating addictions, PTSD and depression. That's not what's amazing though, it's this: scientists have succeeded in genetically modifying e coli bacteria to produce the drug.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/e-coli-could-produce-a-popular-psychedelic-for-therapeutic-use/

[voice]

That is pretty cool

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Eat sh*t could become the new Make Love Not War.

[rick49]

Study: Family Members Stealing Hospice Patients' Painkillers

"a new study finds family members often steal painkillers from dying relatives in hospice care."

"No matter what, swiping drugs that dying patients need to manage their pain is cruel, he said."

"Where medications are being taken from patients, those patients are probably suffering," said Cagle, an associate professor of social work at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.

"Cagle fears that the thefts will lead to a crackdown on prescribing opioids to dying patients who need them."

"Hospice providers increasingly share that concern, the researchers said."
www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/opioids-painkillers-hospice-addiction/2020/02/12/id/953777/?ns_mail_uid=1063f1fa-3d89-4fdc-8029-174ad85f325e&ns_mail_job=DM90771_02132020&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010502smxi19

Of course it will lead to a crackdown on giving pain killers to dying patients. The mantra will be "make them suffer as much as possible."

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Any excuse for cutbacks.

Still, more jobs for carers, so it's not all bad.

[rick49]

Shingles Vaccine May Reduce Risk of Stroke
www.newsmax.com/health-news/shingles-vaccine-stroke/2020/02/13/id/953941/

[voice]

Diversion of drugs is far more a problem in the community as there is nothing you can really do to stop it short of daily dispense by a pharmacist, and really nothing new. I'm wondering what kind of hospices they studded, I know the US health system is a bit sh*t, but no hospice I've ever seen does't have narcotics locked up in a med room or bed side locker and dispensed only by the RN, and its usual practice (here and the UK at least) to witness the ingestion.

[voice]

An innovative skin patch developed by researchers at the University of Toronto has the potential to prevent low blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia) in people with diabetes.

A team led by Shirley Wu, a professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy who studies drug delivery systems, designed a “smart” patch that delivers the hormone glucagon to the bloodstream in response to falling blood sugar, thus preventing the dangerous condition.

The microneedle patch looks like a nicotine patch, but it features 100 tiny needles less than a millimetre long.

“Our microneedle patch is the first of its kind,” says Wu. “No other microneedle patch is responsive to low glucose concentration. Ours is sensitive enough to detect hypoglycemia and release glucagon when it’s needed,” she says.

www.utoronto.ca/news/developed-u-t-researchers-first-its-kind-skin-patch-aims-prevent-low-blood-sugar-diabetes?fbclid=IwAR2pqeKboerg3TYYnXcKhVXhoOBHflw1Ud1amEuVE4NO_yLWS-2zdIsupME

more great advances

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Weird thing this. I suffer from both hypo and hyper glycaemia (not at the same time of course). Not massively but enough to make me keep an eye on it.

[Marshall]

Great news, isn't malaria the #1 killer in the world?

Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria.

The team in Kenya and the UK say the finding has "enormous potential" to control the disease. Malaria is spread by the bite of infected mosquitoes, so protecting them could in turn protect people. The researchers are now investigating whether they can release infected mosquitoes into the wild, or use spores to suppress the disease.

The malaria-blocking bug, Microsporidia MB, was discovered by studying mosquitoes on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya. It lives in the gut and genitals of the insects. The researchers could not find a single mosquito carrying the Microsporidia that was harbouring the malaria parasite. And lab experiments, published in Nature Communications, confirmed the microbe gave the mosquitoes protection.

www.bbc.com/news/health-52530828

[voice]

Malaria has probably killed more humans than any other disease, in fact many evolutionary biologists have said malaria had a significant effect on human evolution.

[flatandy]

Humans also had a significant impact on malarial evolution.

Anyway, that's awesome news if they can infect all the world's anapheles mosquitoes, and not do any additional damage to the ecosystem.

[rick49]

China's Eating Our STEM Field Lunch, But at Least There's 'Ecofeminism'

"America used to be a tough place where people knew — with regard to the big world — competition was the name of the game."

"Is that still the case?"

This month, Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology embedded the results succinctly in its title: “China is Fast Outpacing U.S. STEM PhD Growth.”

cset.georgetown.edu/publication/china-is-fast-outpacing-u-s-stem-phd-growth/

Since the mid-2000s, CSET notes, China’s “consistently produced more STEM doctorates than the United States.”

“While it is possible that the growing supply of STEM PhDs in China exceeds current labor market demand,” CSET concedes, “the quality and quantity of a country’s doctoral graduates is an important indicator of its future competitiveness, and China’s capacity to produce skilled PhD-level STEM experts appears to be growing rapidly.”

"While the Red Dragon invests in the future via STEM, American education has other priorities:

"College Students Can Look Forward to Courses in ‘Ecofeminism,’ ‘Community Activism’ and ‘Queer Desires’"

redstate.com/alexparker/2021/08/05/college-students-can-look-forward-to-courses-in-ecofeminism-community-activism-and-queer-desires-n421607

"University Hires Social Justice Center to Help Top Staff Embrace ‘White Inferiority’"

redstate.com/alexparker/2021/08/12/chinas-eating-our-stem-field-lunch-but-at-least-theres-ecofeminism-n425111

but will the students be able to read the courses?

[perrykneeham]

STEM. What a tired old theme that is.

We use SCEMT2+SM3

[flatandy]

I've been hearing STEAM a lot which seems to completely miss the point. Adding "arts" into it means basically everything, when the point used to be that the hard stuff was difficult to persuade people to do so you had to focus on STEM.

[voice]

That's a lot of work by red state and the idiot to totally miss the point. China funds stem and probably artsy stuff very well, the US doesn't, in fact the likes of red state and the idiot have been waging a war on us education for decades. Reaping what you sow

[mids]

STEAM? Jesus Bloody Christ. What tit thought that up? The BBC? The National Trust? Gary Lineker?

[flatandy]

Arts wankers who didn't want to feel left out of the important stuff (even though their stuff isn't important in the same way).