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🎯 Goal: curing SARS-CoV-2 persistence #LongCovid | No formal biomed education | MA Philosophy | MSc Business | ❤️ nuance | effective altruism
To make LC more attractive to pharma we need 1. A surrogate biomarker 2. An international patient registry ➡️ reduces costly recruitment 3. Public precommitment by FDA for accelerated pathways for the first effective drugs Explained: atelfo.github.io/2023/12/23/bio… #UniteToFight2024
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So far, not a lot of people have tried GLP-1 agonists, and about 8/11 didn't notice any improvement
People with ME/CFS, have you tried GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic? Did it improve your ME/CFS symptoms? (Not talking about weight loss)
People with ME/CFS, have you tried GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic? Did it improve your ME/CFS symptoms? (Not talking about weight loss)
1) We’ve changed our name to ME/CFS Science! We hope to keep sharing in-depth analysis of ME/CFS research, focusing on data and methodology, trying to separate hype from real progress.
11 years ago, Russians downed flight MH-17, killing all passengers on board. Never forget.
Wait before we moral panic "Evidence suggests that strangulation is now the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40". Turns out this is based on an *unpublished thesis* that found an *association* between strangulation and stroke in women from a domestic violence…
Strangulation during sex is now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40. This practice is clearly spreading due to the proliferation of violent pornography, yet still women are gaslit and told that porn is "just a fantasy."
RFK Jr pulls funding for global childhood vaccines organisation GAVI When he said he won't take anyone's vaccines away - he lied When he said he isn't anti vaccine - he lied Kids will die as a result of his anti science fanaticism. Nasty piece of work
When it comes to mosquitos, ticks etc, I feel like... Humanity is just so naturally gifted at driving species to extinction, we should be playing to our strengths
The Canadian Ibudilast & Pentoxyfilline trial - no improvement over placebo More strikingly - look at that placebo graph. The amount of improvement, over just a period of 2 months. Patient selection is key for LC trials...
Huge repository of information about OpenAI and Altman just dropped — 'The OpenAI Files'. There's so much crazy shit in there. Here's what Claude highlighted to me: 1. Altman listed himself as Y Combinator chairman in SEC filings for years — a total fabrication (?!): "To…
Today, I’m proud to introduce a revolutionary pathway to drug approvals that will significantly accelerate the delivery of crucial treatments to the American public. I'm committed to fostering innovation that saves lives. The National Priority Voucher program brings the agility…
Today, the FDA announced its Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher program to accelerate the delivery of crucial treatments to the American public. fda.gov/news-events/pr…
Absolutely horrific. But because there's no video/images, we don't grok the scale :(
More than 345,000 people have died so far as a result of US foreign aid cuts, the vast majority children, according to Dr. Brooke Nichols, infectious disease mathematical modeller and health economist. Just to give an idea of scale, this is five times more deaths than in Gaza.
Someone at Novo Nordisk failed to pay a $450 maintenance fee, which would have kept its patent on Ozempic in force for another two years... A very expensive mistake!