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You can read the study here: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/195/38/E1291?rss=1

Portion I thought was important:

I started a neuroscience community for anyone interested in neuroscience, feel free to join :)

A decent discussion which pulls from a few recent reports. Since this is a community of healthcare professionals, you might already know most/all of this, but it's a nice place to start discussions or to share with friends/family :)

June 8, 2023 — The Commonwealth Fund’s 2022 International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care PhysiciansFootnote i focuses on the experiences of family doctors in 10 developed countries, including Canada. The 2022 survey results explore topics such as physicians’ workload, access to care, coordination of care and use of information technologies. These international comparisons provide an important perspective on the state of primary care in Canada and where improvements can still be made.

Inspired by the other post about STEMI and smartwatch. Still early results, but they found patients with Parkinson's had smaller arm swings as measured by the smartwatch compared to controls.

patient was instructed to move the smartwatch around his chest and was able to get analogues of leads I, V2, V4

This seems like a great idea, just coming off of a multi year pandemic - let's cut funding for the most successful public health intervention in human history!

As I've been reading about the studies about microbiome differences in people with various mental illnesses, is there any potential for a connection regarding contagion of mental issues? Like if people are around each other for long enough, will their microbiome and therefore their mental state become similar?

I think it would be nice for the health-related fields on Lemmy to form a network, so I'm sharing the radiology/medical-imaging community I started.

From the history of pretty crazy self experimentation in medicine, a doctor has a cutaneous branch of his own radial nerve surgically cut. He then meticulously documents the progress of nerve regrowth, initial total numbness followed by neuropathic pain, and a partial return of sensation over time

The standard of care first line therapy for many types of aggressive B-cell lymphoma is R-CHOP combination chemo-immunotherapy (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone). 85% of patients with advanced stage disease are in remission after R-CHOP, and approximately 75% in remission never relapse. For those who have relapsed or primary refractory aggressive lymphoma, unfortunately things look bleaker, and prior to the era of CAR-T cell therapy, the vast majority (70-80% or more) would die of lymphoma.

In patients with normal flow low gradient severe AS, AVR was associated with a significantly improved survival compared with those who received standard medical treatment.

Low-gradient aortic stenosis (AS) [i.e. an aortic valve area (AVA) <1 cm2 with a mean transvalvular gradient <40 mmHg and/or peak jet aortic velocity <4 m/s] is a frequent finding, with up to 40% AS patients harbouring discrepant results at transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) examination.1 This discordant grading pattern raises challenges and uncertainties regarding the true severity of the valve disease. Therefore, a thorough, integrative approach including assessment of flow status has been proposed in recent guidelines

Conclusions The nonprescription drugs loperamide and mitragynine are associated with disproportionate reports of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia in North America.