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    Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

    What I meant was that measuring wastewater levels are a good indicator to monitoring Covid and other illnesses. The levels here are very low so I don't feel the need for a spring Covid vaccine. At this time I don't want to go the pharmacy to get the same type of variant Covid vaccine I got last...
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    Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

    Waste water levels in my area are very low so I'm skipping the spring vaccine. I'll get both the flu and Covid jabs in the fall.
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    Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

    "FLiRT" COVID variants are now more than a third of U.S cases. Scientists share what we know about them so far. The strain also does not have large amounts of worrying changes, unlike some previously highly-mutated variants that have raised alarm in years past. However, the swift change in...
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    Fibrin promotes oxidative stress and neuronal loss in traumatic brain injury via innate immune activation, 2024 Terry Dean et al

    A New Therapeutic Target for Traumatic Brain Injury The team leveraged genetic tools to identify a specific mutation in fibrin that can block it from activating immune cells without affecting the protein’s beneficial blood-clotting abilities. This is especially critical for traumatic brain...
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    Fibrin promotes oxidative stress and neuronal loss in traumatic brain injury via innate immune activation, 2024 Terry Dean et al

    Abstract Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes significant blood-brain barrier (BBB) breakdown, resulting in the extravasation of blood proteins into the brain. The impact of blood proteins, especially fibrinogen, on inflammation and neurodegeneration post-TBI is not fully understood...
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    Protocol Trial registration: Low-dose Naltrexone for Post-COVID Fatigue Syndrome, 2022, Luis Nacul, British Columbia Women's Hospital & Health Centre

    I took LDN for less than 2 weeks and knew it wasn't for me. The agitation and insomnia was awful. But it has helped some with pain syndromes.
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    Unrest film - Jen Brea

    She did fit the criteria for M.E when she was diagnosed. I didn't watch her film, but when she said she stopped breathing when she turned her head was when she lost me. Back in 1999/2000 I met a woman who was given an M.E diagnosis for 10 years, her symptoms were similar to mine, but looking...
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    Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

    Hand washing has become the priority to prevent airborne COVID.
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    A comprehensive review on current understanding of bradykinin in COVID-19 and inflammatory diseases, 2022, Devasahayam Arokiar Balaya Rex

    Abstract Bradykinin, a member of the kallikrein–kinin system (KKS), is a potent, short-lived vasoactive peptide that acts as a vasodilator and an inflammatory mediator in a number of signaling mechanisms. Bradykinin induced signaling is mediated through kinin B1 (BDKRB1) and B2 (BDKRB2)...
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    Metabolomic Evidence for Peroxisomal Dysfunction in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2022, Levine,Hornig,Lipkin et al

    Good to hear that you're feeling positive effects from the shark oil. Could you elaborate a little? I'm assuming it's not cognitive improvement like my own experience from taking omega 3's which was easier to recognize and more obvious.
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    Comments on energy conservation treatments for MS-related fatigue and a new proposal, 2024

    Why not base their fatigue findings on what they ate for breakfast? That's double the threat right there.
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    Fatigue acts as a distractor in monotonous and dual attention tasks in patients with multiple sclerosis but not with LC, 2024, Helmut Hildebrandt

    Abstract and Figures Background: Fatigue associated with long COVID-19 has become an issue of great concern. Fatigue is also a consequence of multiple sclerosis (MS), leading to reduced quality of life and early retirement. Based on our model of fatigue [15], we hypothesized that the severity of...
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    It’s ‘time for a conversation’ on assisted suicide dangers, says Liz Carr, ahead of BBC1 documentary

    I understand, I experienced the same issue you did. Very complex. My Mother was a practicing Catholic and assisted in dying would not have been her choice so we would have had to respected that. We suspected her dementia/AD started in her late 50's but we didn't know enough about...
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    Mitochondrial DNA Missense Mutations ... Identified in a Caucasian Female with (ME/CFS) Triggered by the [EBV],2024,Tang-Siegel

    I mean, who's going to their doctors office every time they feel 'viral'? In this case I'd be there every few months and my doctor would say 'no' that they don't test.
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    It’s ‘time for a conversation’ on assisted suicide dangers, says Liz Carr, ahead of BBC1 documentary

    If I start to develop AD later in life, I want the choice to end my life on the day and time I choose.
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    It’s ‘time for a conversation’ on assisted suicide dangers, says Liz Carr, ahead of BBC1 documentary

    Especially when it now includes pwMental illnesses who are struggling to afford to eat and going homeless because governments ignore their needs and don't provide adequate financial support to live with dignity.
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    News from Canada

    'My family doctor just fired me': Ontario patients frustrated with de-rostering Dozens of Ontarians are expressing frustration in the province’s health-care system after their family doctors either dropped them as patients or threatened to after they sought urgent care elsewhere. Many said...
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    It’s ‘time for a conversation’ on assisted suicide dangers, says Liz Carr, ahead of BBC1 documentary

    Disabled actor and activist Liz Carr has described her hopes that her BBC1 documentary about assisted suicide will finally explain the dangers of legislation to a mainstream audience. LINK
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