Satire?
I've heard that Republicans are cannibals who eat the bodies of people who die from taking chloroquine or oleandrin, and Pence and Trump officiate. People are talking about it.R is the anonymous person...
View ArticleI'm not buying the entire "Republicans are being torn apart" narrative....
Yes, some of these assholes are posturing to show which one can show off their fascist bona fides most flamboyantly, it reminds me a bit of the mating displays of certain animals. And yes a few others...
View ArticleCongressional hearings on Capital police and others complicit in last night's...
I'm hoping they will occur soon and will make the Benghazi hearings look like an episode of Mr. Rogers by comparison. And the subpoenas must be enforced. People need to go to prison for this....
View ArticleAbout that piece on drinking enough water..... (with update)
This is one of those pieces of well intentioned health advice that never seems to die. Normally I let it go because in most cases it does no real harm, but I’m going to respond this time. First,...
View ArticleHEK293 cells and drug discovery. Can this cell line render something "morally...
Dartagnan wrote a great diary about the Catholic Dioceses of New Orleans and their pronouncement that “the latest vaccine from Janssen/Johnson & Johnson is morally compromised as it uses the...
View ArticleHigh-salt diets, high blood pressure, mortality, and physiology. It's not...
This is a follow up to my now-notorious diary concluding that you are probably drinking the exact amount of water that you need. I hope some of you find this useful.High blood pressure (hypertension)...
View ArticleRacism, chronic kidney disease, and the interpretation of an important...
At some point I will write a diary entirely devoted to chronic kidney disease, its prevalence, nature and causes. It is one of the most common chronic health problems and it is what I study for a...
View ArticleBenign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). A primer for Daily Kos readers who aren't...
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a condition that affects a significant number of men globally once they reach the age of 40 (and occasionally even earlier). It is estimated to occur to some...
View ArticleA brief primer on insulin, type-2 diabetes, and recently developed therapies.
Glucose is a major source of energy for cells in your body. Glucose is directly or indirectly derived from foods that we eat. For example, starches can be broken down into glucose by digestive...
View ArticleHow an evolutionary arms race against parasitic organisms in Africa impacts...
According to the US Renal Data System, in 2017 a total of 124,369 Americans lost all of their kidney function, a condition known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD). As a result they needed dialysis to...
View ArticleA primer on blood pressure, essential hypertension, and its treatment by drugs
About 45% of Americans have a blood pressure that is above optimal, a condition referred to as hypertension. In many cases the pressure is so high that people are at markedly increased risk for heart...
View ArticleStatins: A primer on making an informed decision (and to avoid making a...
The Framingham study was the first major epidemiological study in history to attempt to identify risk factors for heart disease — or really any disease. It began in 1948, spurred in part by the...
View ArticleWhy do Republicans hate our children? (Edited with more appalling stuff)
Meanwhile Abbott and the Texas GOP have set up a system whereby schools are NOT required to inform parents if there have been Covid-19 cases at a particular school. How will DeSantis counter this...
View ArticleA Texas story brewing about systematic jury tampering
From local Houston news sources:The Texas Rangers are being called in to investigate after the Brazoria County District Attorney's Office found out about potential "irregularities" in the district...
View ArticleA question of medical ethics and I don't know the answer.
In the last few days I have seen two stories both people with non-Covid-19 related illnesses who died waiting for a space in an ICU. Ironically, one of these was a veteran of the war in Afghanistan....
View ArticleRegional bigotry on Daily Kos
For a long time I have noticed this in certain comment threads on this site, and sometimes even in some of the main diaries that appear on this website. Comments to the effect that we should build a...
View ArticleA theory on why the Democratic party in Texas has had problems
Let me start this by stating that I'm not an expert on politics anywhere. I'm just a guy who wants Democrats to win and I'm tired of the GQP running my state. Ad everyone knows, they have taken a...
View ArticleAn update on Didier Raoult, the main source of right-wing hydroxychloroquine...
Back at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic some of you may remember a French physician from Marseille named Didier Raoult. This guy was until very recently the director of the University Hospital...
View ArticleRacism, chronic kidney disease, and the interpretation of an important...
At some point I will write a diary entirely devoted to chronic kidney disease, its prevalence, nature and causes. It is one of the most common chronic health problems and it is what I study for a...
View ArticleBenign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). A primer for Daily Kos readers who aren't...
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a condition that affects a significant number of men globally once they reach the age of 40 (and occasionally even earlier). It is estimated to occur to some...
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