Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Yet research has found that many Americans—particularly Black Americans—have not bought into the promise of ACP. Advocates say that such plans are especially important for Black Americans, who are more likely to experience racial discrimination and lower-quality care throughout the health-care system. Advance care planning, they say, could help patients understand their options and document their wishes, as well as reduce anxiety for family members."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/09/end-of-life-advance-care-planning/675273/

'In orders such as Chiroptera (bats), in which the authors infer a high tolerance to immunopathology and high levels of constitutive immunity, the expected (and observed) virulence is high. The expected virulence could be even higher in Monotrema (suggesting that you definitely should not kiss a platypus), but there currently is no data on emerging viruses from this order.'

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002286

Great moments in copyediting:

“Before Atwater died, of brain cancer, in 1991, he expressed regret…” Yagoda wrote, “No other publication would put a comma after ‘died’ or ‘cancer’. The New Yorker does so because otherwise (or so the thinking goes), the sentence would suggest that Atwater died multiple times & of multiple causes." 

#books #bookshelf #writing #bookstodon

New podcast episode out today! Dr. Anand Padmanabhan discusses his exciting successes developing new diagnostics and treatments for deadly blood clotting conditions, his path to becoming a physician-scientist, challenges he has faced, his interests outside the lab, and more!

https://www.peoplebehindthescience.com/dr-anand-padmanabhan/

#science #research #bloodclots #STEM #podcasts #podcast #medicine #diagnostics #therapeutics

For years, Ginni Thomas has acted with complete impunity, mixing her extreme politics with the judicial system and skirting right up to the edge of what was lawful. But there was nothing likely illegal to pin on her.

Until now. My piece today explains.

https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/what-about-ginni?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I'm very sad to learn of the death of Professor Sir Ian Wilmut.

I've lost count of the number of undergraduates, PhD students, and postdocs who have told us that it was Ian's remarkable work that inspired them to become scientists, and to study at Edinburgh.

Ian was the founding director of our Centre, the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, and we have much to thank him for.

@ElisabethBik scanned 20621 papers for fraudulent figures 1995 to 2014, and found 2% of fraud. The real % is almost certainly much higher
https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.00809-16 #BC2basel

The Home Science Labs of English Noblewomen: elite women in eighteenth-century England pursued scientific inquiry by distilling products for medicinal use. https://daily.jstor.org/the-home-science-labs-of-english-noblewomen/

The Good Virus: The Untold Story Of Phages By Tom Ireland — Review, published by HodderBooks, 2023

by @GrrlScientist via ForbesScience / Forbes

An engaging book about the viruses that prey on bacteria, packed with inspirational stories of eccentric scientists, medical miracles and interwoven with how science and history affect each other

#books #BookReview #microbiology #ecology #viruses https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/09/11/the-good-virus-the-untold-story-of-phages-by-tom-ireland---review/

"To this day, the cumulative per capita death rates from #COVID19 in countries that embraced the face coverings, such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, are a sixth of Anglo-Saxon countries like the US and UK that balked at community masking."

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/it-s-aerosol-stupid-the-professor-who-challenged-medical-chiefs-20230814-p5dw8p

I wish I'd written this story on the upcoming Covid booster launch and what we can expect from the updated vaccines. From the inimitable @sciencecohen. https://www.science.org/content/article/should-i-get-covid-19-booster

🌟️ Long COVID, which occurs in 10% of infections and which is not fully prevented by vaccines, is becoming an exclusion criteria for any kind of insurance — including travel, disability, and life.

The actuaries know.

I can't even...