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Metamizole is an amazing drug, I'm always grateful that I work and live in an area where it is available. But it is not a miracle drug. Metamizole-induced agranulocytosis absolutel…

Sorry if this is too specific/personal, but I've been wondering, why does the treatment timeline include antibiotics (dalbavancin)? Does dalbavancin have any suspected antitumor ef…

https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/Team_Volkamer.php > Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer is a full professor at KIT in the Department of Economics and Management. She leads the SECUSO research g…

Cysteine proteases are named after their reaction mechanism, which involves a key cysteine residue within the enzyme . It doesn't have anything to do with the amino acids in the cl…

The problem is that N-acetylcysteine tastes and smells awful (like farts/rotten eggs) and often causes nausea and vomiting as a side effect. The vast majority of people use acetami…

Any EMR (electronic medical record) would probably fit this description. For example Epic, the leading one in the US: https://www.emrsystems.net/epic-ehr-software/ Or Orbis, the le…

Reading about this process always makes me wonder: in a particular round, was an elector allowed to choose someone who had already been chosen in a previous round? And if yes, to w…

This was a great challenge, thanks for sharing! I do agree that the messaging could be improved a bit about what is possible and what is not. Here are my solutions, for anyone who …

There absolutely exist checklists for safe surgery as well, most famously the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist [pdf]: https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/44186/9789241598... I…

Yes, in fact, most of the types of research I mentioned, where random people at hospitals do small trials on existing medications, is going to be partially government funded. But c…

Once drugs lose patent protection, it's difficult for them to gain approval for new indications, because drug approval procedures are extremely expensive and there's no patent hold…

Reminds me of Scott Alexander's “GATTACA II: EPI-GATTACA”: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/06/19/the-gattaca-trilogy/

The screenshot feature is easily accessible in Firefox using the right-click context menu on any webpage

I feel like you could do even better than chilies/ginger for replicating the burn. The burn from chilies feels completely different than the burn from alcohol, because ethanol is m…

I wish there was a version of this for proportional fonts as well. I never use monospace fonts for coding anymore if I can avoid it, but I'm still in search of the “perfect” propor…

> I’ve always liked blogging about calendrical things, but I don’t remember doing anything on the Metonic cycle before. If I had written faster, I could’ve published it on Friday t…

The “invisible symbols” are necessary to correctly represent human language. For instance, one of the most infamous Unicode control characters — the right-to-left override — is req…

I do this too. It's worth noting that you don't need to host your own email server to do this. I personally use Migadu as an email host for my own domains which lets me define arbi…

There is a huge difference in dose between “bacteria in your mouth producing an antibiotic” and “taking an antibiotic for an infection”. Bacteria, even the normal bacteria currentl…

S. mutans was named in 1924, long before the idea of genetic mutations was established. It was likely named that because it converts sugars to acid.

Yes, for example this one: https://onyxboox.com/boox_novaairc

Something I'm personally excited about: colour e-ink displays. There are a few decent colour e-ink tablets on the market already, for surprisingly low prices ($400-500). So far the…

Humans are 3D objects, but fat is not distributed equally throughout the body. Most fat is subcutaneous fat, i.e. located right below the skin. Its abundance can therefore be appro…