fact is, if you do not even know what thiomersal is, and that you think that the medical industry would put sth that "serves no function other than to poison people" in vaccines, it's just, hmm... may i use the word stupid?
yes, there are thousands of studies proving that mercury, in high doses, is hazardous to human health, but giving a child the levels found in vaccines, compared to the typical environmental level, isn't all that bad.
note that previous toxicology studies actually rarely studied thiomersal, but a demonstratably more toxic compound....
the industry, however, is faced with a situation where they should produce vaccine that do not contain thiomersal. if they produce it, it would be kind of a fringe product with little profit, if they don't, then these people do not vaccinate...
you consider mercury is harmful, and do not think that the diseases protected by the vaccine are harmful? that's nice logical thinking.
as for 5 shots of vaccine together causing a significant mercury poisoning, are you aware of the levels present in vaccine and have you consulted the safety levels yourself? I doubt so. If you have checked it should be 'okay':)
Of course you are free to disagree with the current 'agreed' level.
i suppose you are talking about AD&D stuff.. there's no such thing as lawful chaotic, it's lawful evil. if you meant chaotic good then its another matter...
AD&D stuff aside, i think experimenting with the intent of learning is not THAT unethical by itself.
i guess the chemokine receptor 5 (CKR5 or CCR5, depends on where you read from) mutation for HIV infection resistance is quite well-known... but that's what i've read several years back then.
i guess that this may or may not be related to the presence of chromosomally encoded, constitutively expressed ESBL (extended-spectrum beta-lactamase) which, when present, would usually indicate extreme drug resistance (sometimes even to big guns like penems).
it is actually not very initutive for us to think about penicillin group of antibiotics when we are faced with TB.
the USMLE is simply just easy for most foreign grads well maybe the step 1 is a little bit difficult for those who've been in their clinical years/have graduated but it is still a tad bit easier than the certification exam in most other countries...
Fulltext freely available on: http://www.gastrojournal.org/article/PIIS0016508506006962/fulltext
Koretz RL (2006):
"A meta-analysis was conducted for 8 larger, high-quality trials of homeopathy; the odds ratio was <1.0 (0.88), but the 95% CI overlapped the line of unity (0.65, 1.19)."
well, vegan diet is pretty much a diet lacking vitamin and enriched in pesticide (if you take enough tofu or soya bean, for the matter)... you'd better off eating good quality meat (in the nutritional sense, low fat, high protein, high biological value) cooked the right way (steamed, broiled, not fried)
well then.. sometimes we do need to know some differences between experimental animal and human.... for example, omeprazole, a drug in the class of "proton pump inhibitors", which stops acid from being produced in stomach, causes gastrinoma (a type of hormone-secreting tumor) in experimental animals but not in human...
both type 1 and type 2 diabetes can cause three major types of complication (1) macrovascular - stroke, ischemic heart disease, etc. (2) microvascular - eye problem, kidney problem, etc. (3) metabolic - high lipid, etc.
as for gestational diabetes, this is due to a high amount of insulin-antagonists (in a way) in the blood of a pregnant women. These women has up to 50% chance of developing diabetes (type II) later in life and this is related to the pregnancy 'exposing' an already weak (genetically, environmentally induced) sugar-control system.
as for pancreatic cancer leading to diabetics... that's pretty rare as far as I know, but as you said, it's pretty much the least of their worries.. pancreatic cancer carriers a grave prognosis.
more dynamic range = easier to do post-processing and do not have to blanket-exposure. the dynamic range of digital sensor and film are very often much worse than our eye, and that makes photos unrealistic for one reason or two. by increasing the dynamic range of it, even if we downsample the bit-depth, we'll see more realistic image.
I believe that in interpretation of X-ray (chest or abdomen), most disease state/patterns are pretty obvious and do not require anything more than a careful eye on a 1000x1000 image of 8-bit grays to actually interpret it. As for X-ray skeletal parts, you can usually lesions, or it is simply not there.
For CT and MRI, however, the best thing about using a computer to read it rather than reading it on printed films, is that you can actually adjust the window (from the bone window to the soft-tissue window etc) - distinguishing adipose containing nodules from nodules that are composed of 'real' soft tissue - etc. and THAT doesn't take a very high resolution, or high dynamic range image either - and don't tell me you want to put all that window into one image so we don't have to adjust that... it would be much more difficult to see than the ye olde window adjustment...
how good the dynamic range is depends on the monitor as well as the ambient environment you are going to use it in. the material that makes up the thing also counts. if your room has anything that is light emitting it kind of defeat the purpose of turning the thing off.
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fact is, if you do not even know what thiomersal is, and that you think that the medical industry would put sth that "serves no function other than to poison people" in vaccines, it's just, hmm... may i use the word stupid?
yes, there are thousands of studies proving that mercury, in high doses, is hazardous to human health, but giving a child the levels found in vaccines, compared to the typical environmental level, isn't all that bad.
note that previous toxicology studies actually rarely studied thiomersal, but a demonstratably more toxic compound....
the industry, however, is faced with a situation where they should produce vaccine that do not contain thiomersal. if they produce it, it would be kind of a fringe product with little profit, if they don't, then these people do not vaccinate...
argh.
you consider mercury is harmful, and do not think that the diseases protected by the vaccine are harmful? that's nice logical thinking.
:)
as for 5 shots of vaccine together causing a significant mercury poisoning, are you aware of the levels present in vaccine and have you consulted the safety levels yourself? I doubt so. If you have checked it should be 'okay'
Of course you are free to disagree with the current 'agreed' level.
Odds are that they will remember what they see in the archive but forgot that they already saw that archive 5 min ago.
what is preventing them from rewinding 5 minutes?
i suppose you are talking about AD&D stuff.. there's no such thing as lawful chaotic, it's lawful evil. if you meant chaotic good then its another matter...
AD&D stuff aside, i think experimenting with the intent of learning is not THAT unethical by itself.
i would suppose that debian is quite a versatile distro for any purpose...
-- from a debian user... who actually started quite late with potato....
Sorry, sir, but lithium is probably better at treating bipolar affective disorder than schizophrenia.
i guess the chemokine receptor 5 (CKR5 or CCR5, depends on where you read from) mutation for HIV infection resistance is quite well-known... but that's what i've read several years back then.
i guess that this may or may not be related to the presence of chromosomally encoded, constitutively expressed ESBL (extended-spectrum beta-lactamase) which, when present, would usually indicate extreme drug resistance (sometimes even to big guns like penems).
it is actually not very initutive for us to think about penicillin group of antibiotics when we are faced with TB.
the copyediting is getting worse and worse daily...
i just can't read the damn thing in the first stance...
the USMLE is simply just easy for most foreign grads
well maybe the step 1 is a little bit difficult for those who've been in their clinical years/have graduated but it is still a tad bit easier than the certification exam in most other countries...
think about the simple fact that water is liquid at room temperature and pressure.
and then think about how fast water particle moves in RTP.
Fulltext freely available on:
http://www.gastrojournal.org/article/PIIS0016508506006962/fulltext
Koretz RL (2006):
"A meta-analysis was conducted for 8 larger, high-quality trials of homeopathy; the odds ratio was <1.0 (0.88), but the 95% CI overlapped the line of unity (0.65, 1.19)."
well, 17 yo is a reasonable age for spontaneous remission of childhood absence epilepsy...
hmm, that smells like the great (fire)wall.
well i guess no one'd say that
"dual opteron system with 4gb memory and quadro fx560 graphics card"
is just 'reasonable'. my computer is a lowly athlon 64 with 2gb of ram and builtin 6150 graphics..
well, vegan diet is pretty much a diet lacking vitamin and enriched in pesticide (if you take enough tofu or soya bean, for the matter)... you'd better off eating good quality meat (in the nutritional sense, low fat, high protein, high biological value) cooked the right way (steamed, broiled, not fried)
well then.. sometimes we do need to know some differences between experimental animal and human....
for example, omeprazole, a drug in the class of "proton pump inhibitors", which stops acid from being produced in stomach, causes gastrinoma (a type of hormone-secreting tumor) in experimental animals but not in human...
these things are sometimes important
Well,
Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes...
both type 1 and type 2 diabetes can cause three major types of complication
(1) macrovascular - stroke, ischemic heart disease, etc.
(2) microvascular - eye problem, kidney problem, etc.
(3) metabolic - high lipid, etc.
as for gestational diabetes, this is due to a high amount of insulin-antagonists (in a way) in the blood of a pregnant women. These women has up to 50% chance of developing diabetes (type II) later in life and this is related to the pregnancy 'exposing' an already weak (genetically, environmentally induced) sugar-control system.
as for pancreatic cancer leading to diabetics... that's pretty rare as far as I know, but as you said, it's pretty much the least of their worries.. pancreatic cancer carriers a grave prognosis.
depends on how you think, routers often has to be specifically configured to allow VPN connections...
your link gives 404 =(
try
http://iscrybe.com/
nice app indeed
foxit reader chokes at large PDF files
example: the e-book version of Harrison's principle of internal medicine
more dynamic range = easier to do post-processing and do not have to blanket-exposure. the dynamic range of digital sensor and film are very often much worse than our eye, and that makes photos unrealistic for one reason or two. by increasing the dynamic range of it, even if we downsample the bit-depth, we'll see more realistic image.
I believe that in interpretation of X-ray (chest or abdomen), most disease state/patterns are pretty obvious and do not require anything more than a careful eye on a 1000x1000 image of 8-bit grays to actually interpret it. As for X-ray skeletal parts, you can usually lesions, or it is simply not there.
For CT and MRI, however, the best thing about using a computer to read it rather than reading it on printed films, is that you can actually adjust the window (from the bone window to the soft-tissue window etc) - distinguishing adipose containing nodules from nodules that are composed of 'real' soft tissue - etc. and THAT doesn't take a very high resolution, or high dynamic range image either - and don't tell me you want to put all that window into one image so we don't have to adjust that... it would be much more difficult to see than the ye olde window adjustment...
how good the dynamic range is depends on the monitor as well as the ambient environment you are going to use it in. the material that makes up the thing also counts. if your room has anything that is light emitting it kind of defeat the purpose of turning the thing off.