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We’ve had a bunch of folks express interest (thanks!).. But to be clear: this is an in person (Toronto) / remote hybrid position. If your CV doesn’t have a locale, please confirm y…

*Strello Health | Founding Software Engineer | Full-time | Hybrid Remote | Toronto/GTA* Strello Health builds AI voice agents for healthcare. We’re post-seed, generating revenue, a…

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It's established that COVID can persist in tissue/blood - particularly in immunocompromised patients - and is associated with long COVID [1]. This abstract only reports a cut-off o…

Two familial cases of sudden cardiac death? That’s not normal. That’s an indication to investigate.

Your take on Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is wrong. At the top of the evidence hierarchy is N-of-1 trials (and below that are high quality meta-analyses of trials). Nothing is mor…

My immediate thought. Big Claims without backing. Your model makes predictions. Prove they’re worth salt.

At that point you’d simply cut out the tumor.

Small individual study sample size does not necessarily mean junk. Junk is a product of poor methodology. The main concern with sample sizes may be overestimates of effects if the …

I think you’re spot on about the clear advantage of your approach relative to the article and blood biopsies: If you’re looking for cancer in the blood, you’re probably too late as…

Even better is installing an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) in those at high risk.

The main concern here (and most observational studies) is confounding by indication. Specifically, the same reason some people got hydroxychloroquine as opposed methotrexate is the…

I'm intrigued about your research and would love to hear more. I'm a physician interested the effect of for-profit care on health care and outcomes. As an example, we showed that f…

Yes cholesterol is a vital building block. However the medical literature consistently shows a strong relationship between LDL and non-HDL cholesterol levels and heart attack and s…

That’s a great thought, however, when you look at tissue under a microscope you should see evidence that the immune system was at play. This means the presence of complement activa…

Wow, this is appalling medical advice. Perhaps diet, exercise, and evidenced based treatments would be a good place to start.

This is no longer true. The GLP1s have proven to have excellent efficacy for weight loss (and cardiovascular mortality in diabetics). Their numbers approach bariatric surgery (>10%…

This piece entirely misses the point of the recommendation. The new recommendation is that aspirin should not be used to prevent heart attack in those without a history of heart di…

My meaning was that there is no other therapeutic agent available for prevention of post-ERCP pancreatitis. But you're quite right, there must be another reason. If I had to hazard…

Ahh, the pricing of rectal indomethacin. Here's the tale: If you have obstruction of your bile ducts below the liver or gallbladder, usually gallstones or sometimes neoplasm, you n…

I did not bother to read this thread in its entirety though I typically enjoy HN discussion. Undoubtedly, masks of any quality work. Airborne viruses still exist in secretions (lik…

Compare those values to your own weight, and pay attention when you hear someone’s weight to see if it matches your heuristic.

MAPS (multidisciplinary association of psychedelic studies) is systematically demonstrating the positive effects of psychedelics. Their most impressive work is in PTSD. In Phase 2 …

1. The threat to jobs is in the air upon us, UBI or not. Watch its landing, the Gini is out of the bottle. 2. Current models will make good enough general AI, not hard just tedious…

This comment is so entirely out of place on HN.