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These sort of articles pop up every few months and make people hopeful for a cure, but this is sadly unlikely to ever be a viable one. Stem cell transplantation is a standard treat…

Oh, and I phrased that badly, but he didn't drink a ton of tea at the hospital. The hot water for tea comes in limited amounts from those samovar type things, and he didn't want to…

Oh, certainly, there's nothing to prove it was the green tea. We did rule out any other cause of liver failure we possibly could, but there's nothing to say we didn't miss somethin…

He didn't drink 4-5 Liters at the hospital, just a few (two or three) small cups per day. We'd asked about alcohol and drug consumption, but didn't think to ask about his normal fo…

The most House (the TV show)-like case that ever happened in my medical career was the case of the patient with liver failure due to green tea intoxication. A young man presented i…

That's a bizarre line of thought to me. If you build an expensive structure for fortification, you don't usually get to the interior design and then go "Oh fuck it, this extra safe…

The phrasing of this question seems meant to imply that because one explanation doesn't satisfy you (better diagnosis), it must be the other (vaccines). This sets up a false dichot…

I assume they're referring to the over a billion people living in China. Whether China is a place you'd want to live depends entirely on your personal cirumstances, of course.

Most wheelchair users are either elderly or suffering from some other deteriorating condition associated with pain, overall weakness, or instability, and will therefore likely not …

Not in Germany, they don't. Barmer is a "gesetzliche Krankenkasse"/public insurance, which means most of their members' premiums are legally limited to a certain percentage of thei…

This isn't meant for heli-skiers who go out with a few thousand bucks of equipment. None of the average hikers I know own a satellite phone, plenty of them like to hike alone, and …

In areas so remote that modern medical treatments aren't available at all, people do often still grow their own medical plants. If lack of finances is an issue, growing your own he…

That's already true of most sports, though. There's plenty of mechanical constructs that can move faster than the fastest human. The challenge is to be the fastest human using noth…

The fun thing about art criticism, and the reason I firmly believe in the "death of the author" school of critique, is that even the choices an artist made in the face of constrain…

I've used a bunch of different pillows (cherry stone, wheat, etc) and found that, while the initial heat is great and feels better than a hot water bottle, they only stay properly …

Is there an easy way to make this work for a non-programmer, i.e. without installing a whole python environment? I'm less interested in cloning specific voices than in getting a hi…

A diagnosis of anxiety is usually not an out but the beginning of the hard work of improvement. The generally accepted treatment for anxiety is therapy that will encourage you to p…

The article mentions that one patient has an unexplained brain injury comparable to that caused by the shockwave of an explosion. I'm sure the embassy isn't going to release this i…

I'm a successful 33 year old adult in a career ideally suited to the way my brain works, so I was VERY skeptical about whether it would make any difference to my life to get diagno…

I like this scavengers idea. How far is it to Cairo, and what's unemployment like after Corona killed the tourism industy? Unlock all the containers, tell people you're paying them…

There's plenty of political views so toxic and harmful they don't deserve civility. An easy litmus test: are you advocating harm to a person for merely existing in the world, livin…

The theory I've heard is that to breed a deadly plague, you need to live in close contact with animals. A well-adapted virus won't usually kill its host, so most deadly viruses jum…

The Cueva de los Verdes, a famous cave on Lanzarote, was named after the Verdes family and contains nothing green. (Well worth seeing if you ever get a chance to go.)

The math on this doesn't add up because your career doesn't just have to finance your retirement, it also has to finance the decades of your life before that. Sure, if you had 150k…