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Here is a link to a PDF of the "Science Advances One Funeral At A Time" paper published in 2015 https://www.nber.org/papers/w21788.pdf

This a very long article, but a good one. I'm already familiar with the history of the now debunked theory that "saturated fat is bad and causes heart disease", but this article has some details and background I had not read about before. While reading it these specific passages stood out to me...

I was talking more generally in terms of "chemo drugs" that are used outside of cancer as the post I was replying to seemed to be making a more general statement about not being open to the idea of taking a "chemo drug". My point was just that not all "chemo drugs" are to be feared.

Methotrexate is an example of a "chemo drug" that many autoimmune patients take. However it is not a "chemo drug" when used for autoimmunity as the dose is way way way way smaller than what is given to cancer patients. It's not considered "chemotherapy" when used this way because the way it...

I can understand how healthy people could mistakenly believe that not having to work due to disability sounds like a 'perk' of being disabled. Most healthy people have only ever experienced very short periods of not working (due to either temporary illness, vacation, etc). To them such short...

Reminds me of the "some people are left-brained and some people are right-brained" baloney that was rampant not long ago (still persists unfortunately). The concept has since been disproven.

Acupuncture Is Theatrical Placebo I've just now found this 2013 article about the acupuncture after a skeptic doctor posted a link to it on her blog. I searched S4ME to see if anyone had posted it previously but nothing came up. So here it is...

@LucyLouWho That link I posted in my previous message to you was the rules for inpatient skilled nursing care. Here is a link to the rules for "home health care services". https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/home-health-services

@LucyLouWho You may be able to qualify for Skilled Nursing Care coverage thru Medicare. Also I see that days 1 thru 20 of it are covered in full by Medicare. Do you have the energy to look into this, if not I'm available to help and do some research into it for you if you would like. Let me...

This new WIRED article goes into much more detail about James Allison and his career and research from beginning to now. It's long, but quite interesting. Meet the Carousing, Harmonica-Playing Texan Who Just Won a Nobel for his Cancer Breakthrough "The war on cancer is not over; we have not...

"Genetics is a probabilistic science, and there are no genes “for” anything in particular. I have severe reservations about the utility of genetic tests that indicate one individual’s propensity for certain conditions outside of a clinical setting; if you don’t have a PhD in genetics, these...

Merged thread Will Supplements Keep Your Bones Strong? The most recent 'People's Pharmacy' podcast is worth a listen. The first doctor they interview calls into question the usefulness of meta-analyses, and explains why he believes double-blind placebo controlled studies have been...

In the US this is the situation.... "The United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation of products containing probiotics is complex and largely depends on the claims that are made for the product. For example, they can be regulated as foods, dietary supplements, cosmetics, or...

@Woolie Thankfully the presumed blockage/stenosis in the artery does not affect my stomach at all. The actual artery damage causes me no symptoms itself, the symptoms I feel are instead those caused by the reduced blood flow to my left leg that it is causing (intermittent claudication). The...

The 7 month mark has come and gone. (the end of Sept marked 7 months since beginning treatment for RP) Quite a few new developments since I last posted at the 4 month mark. After 2 months of taking the 20mg of Leflunomide daily I did notice a definite improvement in my fatigue levels, but no...

No, EMG does not detect Small Fiber Neuropathy. A skin-punch biopsy is what is usually used to test for SFN. I had it done last year in my neurologist's office. The samples then have to be sent to a specialized lab to be processed & read.

absolutely horrifying.

Note to self: don't let any of my schizophrenic relatives (2 of my first cousins have it) donate bone marrow to me. (excerpt below is from the article) "Another case study from the Netherlands highlights this still-mysterious relationship. In this study, on which Dr. Yolken is a co-author, a...

Yes and another problem is that people wrongly believe that symptoms indicate whether or not a person is still contagious (ex: no fever means your not contagious). The flu is contagious for up to 9 days no matter how the ill person feels! A cold is contagious for up to 7 days! So many people...

"Researchers should embrace negative results instead of accentuating the positive, which is one of several biases that can lead to bad science." "When we think of biases in research, the one that most often makes the news is a researcher’s financial conflict of interest. But another bias, one...