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I am sorry you are going through that. Really awful. Credit to you for tracking the symptoms so closely. The cyclicality of the nausea in your graph is interesting. Personally, I f…

It is harder for infection fighting cells to get into the joint space compared to other tissues

The counter argument that I have heard is that patient handoffs are where a disproportionate number of errors occur. Increasing the number of shifts means that more patients in the…

Interestingly, this gets into the territory of the Framingham Heart Study, a long-running, prospective cohort study of cardiovascular disease risk. The data are mixed. One analysis…

I think that you would have to correct for socio-economic status, which is strongly tied to health outcomes.

PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is Truvada, which is part of the anti-retroviral regimen given to many HIV(+) patients. The idea is that any virions that enter your body are killed…

It even works the other way around. IIRC, there have been something like 2 documented cases of HIV(-) people becoming seropositive while taking PrEP as prescribed.

Yep. Triple therapy is now standard in HIV treatment. The odds of developing mutations to 2-3 agents simultaneously are very low

Gut bacteria have many functions, and there are likely more out there to be discovered than we know about currently. One of the functions that I find interesting is that bacteria h…

Payments may affect prescribing, but I think that system factors count for more than many people realize. By way of an example, imagine the following case, which is reasonably comm…

I think by cure they mean eradicate the virus, rather than suppress it. Most people can live relatively normal lives by keeping their viral load low, but this involves taking expen…

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. The body kills all of its insulin-producing cells, often in childhood. No matter what sort of food you eat, you need insulin if you want y…

It's an unsatisfying answer, but Alzheimer's (and most disease for that matter) is a combination of genetic risk and what you do with your life. It is hard to know exactly how much…

Spores formed by bacteria like C. botulinum or B. anthracis are also very difficult to neutralize. The key is knowing if there is an exposure risk and taking added precautions. The…

Looks awesome. Did you find HIPAA or the need for an extremely low error rate to be burdensome in building the app?