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Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by OJFord »

lemarchr wrote: post #21
OJFord wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of, in the sense that it sounds like a global news headline, vs. 'University of Exeter researchers find [...]' published by exeter.ac.uk, on this globally read site.

It's global news to me. Hello from Australia! Edit: Ah wait, I think I get what you mean. By "global news" you mean it's been deemed worthy of sharing to an international audience by media outlets, as opposed to a crowdsourcing news source like HN. Is that right?

I mean when you write 'UK researchers find', especially to a global audience (which UoKentucky PR dept may not particularly have but HN does (Hello from the (the!) UK)) that it sounds more like the country UK than the.. no offence intended but not exactly world renowned university. (I've heard of Kentucky, probably my first time hearing of its university in its own right - though I might have assumed it had one.)

Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by canadiantim »

findthewords wrote: post #6

Alz is brain inflammatory response to viruses (among other foreing detritus) that got past the blood-brain barrier, so I'm not surprised.

Also yeast/candida getting past blood-brain barrier (https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-a-candida-infe...)

Also mold causing mold toxin load, like e.g. ochratoxin A which causes cell death in the memory centres of the brain

Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by unyttigfjelltol »

findthewords wrote: post #6

Alz is brain inflammatory response to viruses (among other foreing detritus) that got past the blood-brain barrier, so I'm not surprised.

These days I just blame everything on histomine dysfunction and marvel that the medical complex has been so reluctant to pick it up.[1]

[1] https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/caution-advised-with-low-his...

Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by lol768 »

kjs3 wrote: post #34
dyauspitr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like it would be trusted a little bit more if it was a study by the NHS from the UK rather than something from Kentucky.

I was just reading on the BBC that people were having to go overseas for critical surgeries because the NHS so woefully incompetent that people were on many years long waiting list. So maybe put "NHS excellence" on the shelf next to "Empire" as UK delusions that have long since passed. U of Kentucky is a pretty decent school, ~25k students with (from personal experience) excellent Civil Engineering and Chemistry scho…

NIHR's research is genuinely world-leading. Any output from "a pretty decent school of 25k students" (U of Kentucky) pales in comparison to the research outputs from studies that NIHR grants fund, many of which are international collaborations. NIHR and "the NHS" are of course completely separate organisations, though NIHR studies recruit NHS patients and make use of NHS patient data for health research. The fact that you don't understand this says a lot about the judgment you attempt to make of the UK's life sciences research.

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/about-us/our-impact/making-a-differen...

https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/search/funder/NIHR%20(ODA)

I'm sorry, but I must admit I'd never even heard of the University of Kentucky before today, and some basic research suggests it's not considered in the top 300 universities globally which is probably why. On contrast, there's plenty of universities within the top 100 (and top 10) within the (real) UK, particularly within the field of life sciences.

I was also pretty happy with the one-week turnaround the NHS sorted for me when I needed something potentially cancerous checked out (endoscopy). I didn't pay a penny for that, I don't pay a penny for my long-term prescriptions and I can see a GP same-day if I need to. Again, for free.

Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by fao_ »

kjs3 wrote: post #34
dyauspitr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like it would be trusted a little bit more if it was a study by the NHS from the UK rather than something from Kentucky.

I was just reading on the BBC that people were having to go overseas for critical surgeries because the NHS so woefully incompetent that people were on many years long waiting list. So maybe put "NHS excellence" on the shelf next to "Empire" as UK delusions that have long since passed. U of Kentucky is a pretty decent school, ~25k students with (from personal experience) excellent Civil Engineering and Chemistry scho…

The reason for that is around 30 - 50 years of continual gutting of the NHS, aggressive implementation of perverse incentives and anti-targets (e.g. "hospitals get less money if they fail to meet X standard of care, because they do not have enough money"), and overloading of staff duties to reduce costs (e.g. Physicians now performing duties that receptionists used to handle, the lack of work force meaning they have to work long amounts of overtime on the weekend, the lack of rest contributing to bad decision-making, and so on).

Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by lol768 »

OJFord wrote: post #41
lemarchr wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's global news to me. Hello from Australia! Edit: Ah wait, I think I get what you mean. By "global news" you mean it's been deemed worthy of sharing to an international audience by media outlets, as opposed to a crowdsourcing news source like HN. Is that right?

I mean when you write 'UK researchers find', especially to a global audience (which UoKentucky PR dept may not particularly have but HN does (Hello from the ( the !) UK)) that it sounds more like the country UK than the.. no offence intended but not exactly world renowned university. (I've heard of Kentucky, probably my first time hearing of its university in its own right - though I might have assumed it had one.)

It seems like a fairly mediocre institution, at least in terms of research output: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/institution-outputs/gene...

Not entirely surprised we'd never heard of it.

Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by Flop7331 »

kjs3 wrote: post #34
dyauspitr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like it would be trusted a little bit more if it was a study by the NHS from the UK rather than something from Kentucky.

I was just reading on the BBC that people were having to go overseas for critical surgeries because the NHS so woefully incompetent that people were on many years long waiting list. So maybe put "NHS excellence" on the shelf next to "Empire" as UK delusions that have long since passed. U of Kentucky is a pretty decent school, ~25k students with (from personal experience) excellent Civil Engineering and Chemistry scho…

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