Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight.
"A historic new study out of Scotland shows the real-world impact of vaccines against the human papillomavirus: The country has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13."
For the first time in the world researchers at Tel Aviv University have encoded a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA (messenger RNA) molecules and delivered these particles directly to cancer cells, causing the cells to produce the toxin—which eventually killed them with a success rate of 50%.
#Insurance Executives Refused to Pay for the #Cancer Treatment That Could Have Saved Him.
This Is How They Did It.
A #Michigan law requires coverage of cancer drugs. One insurer came up with a “defensible” way to avoid paying for treatments that offered Forrest VanPatten his last chance for survival.
EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause #Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime
An #EPA document shows that a new #Chevron#fuel ingredient has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable — even greater than another Chevron fuel’s sky-high risk disclosed earlier this year.
Masto pals, looking for suggestions. My best friend is battling #cancer and, as a result of that and other conditions, it has become hard for her to play her heavy #guitars. She's looking for a lighter electric guitar so she can continue playing through her treatment. Not necessarily a short scale guitar, just a lighter one. Any #guitarist#musician have any recommendations I can give her on a specific brand or model? Boosts appreciated for reach 🤗🎸 #music
L’amiante provoque un cancer très particulier : le mésothéliome pleural, surveillé de manière sophistiquée depuis 1998, notamment par un réseau « Netmeso », déployé sur une vingtaine de départements, et qui était destiné à être étendu au niveau national.
Et puis, en décembre, un mail de Santé publique France, dans lequel l’établissement écrit qu’il « n’est plus en mesure de déployer le dispositif national de surveillance des mésothéliomes », qui devait « prendre le relais » de Netmeso. « Cette décision est extrêmement difficile mais l’agence [n’a plus les] ressources suffisantes. »
La dégradation du service public de la santé, c’est très concret.
My dear friend Ryan, the voice of SymfonyCasts, has incurable brain cancer. He and his family need your help to get through this incredibly difficult time.
Health Plans Can’t Dodge Paying for Expensive New #Cancer Treatments, Says Michigan’s Top #Insurance Regulator
After ProPublica reported on a #health insurer that refused to cover the only medicine that could save a cancer patient’s life, #Michigan insurance regulators clarified that, by law, many plans must pay for any clinically proven treatments.
This lady is fighting #cancer, her #boiler stopped working, it was totally knackered.
She asked British Gas for a quote, they said just over £6,000 in total.
We attended and installed a #free boiler, taking away the worry of borrowing for a boiler.
I was diagnosed with tongue #cancer two days after my 33rd birthday. Today I learned that about a quarter of my tongue will be removed next Thursday and that if I survive I may never speak normally again. What is the best open source #AI speech synthesis/replication model that I can train myself? I'd like to set up https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/ to talk for me, so I need something with fast inference. I don't want to sound like espeak (even though I love the software and respect the authors).
i was told i was gonna hit a wall of fatigue sometime after the 2nd or 3rd week after finishing treatment. am glad to be alive and on my way to recovery but this sucks ass.
we need #UBI as part of health care. nobody should have to be precariously unemployed during a situation like this.
anybody having to go to a job during or after #cancer treatment is lying to do that they can handle it.
this is not bullshit. to be forced to work thru a #health crisis is eugenics.
One the list of illnesses that nobody wants, cancer and HIV rank pretty high. Paul Edmonds had both. But ever since a particular treatment five years ago, the California man has been cleared of each disease. Science Alert has more on this astonishing story of hope. https://flip.it/TGFyYY #Science#Health#Cancer#HIV
#Michigan Lawmaker to Introduce Bill Requiring State #Health Plans to Cover Cutting-Edge #Cancer Treatments
After ProPublica reported on a Michigan insurer that wouldn’t cover a cancer patient’s last-chance treatment, a state lawmaker said he would introduce a measure compelling health plans to cover a new generation of advanced cancer therapies.
UK no longer following EU guides on cutting safe levels of BPA plastic containers.
As a result, the safe level of BPA in plastic containers in the UK is now 20,000 times higher than in Europe. #bpa#pollution#food#eu#cancer#brexit
so am using a cane these days after being unable to walk a few steps w/o fatigue or vertigo. am happy as it's what i need to get better from #cancer.
but the excitement of walking to my new oncologist's office, which is at a subway entrance, was squashed by Hochul deploying armed Nat'l Guards in our subways. that means cops are everywhere in the area.
cops kill the disabled at alarming rates. am now a disabled BIPoC.
since 9/11 am almost always stopped on account of either looking Arab or having an incorrectly sounding Arab name (Sabater is shoemaker in Català).
so now that i have no hair thanks to #cancer, i wear a head scarf. so not only am i looking MORE Arab. now that i use a cane thanks to #COVID19 and #chemo,
am also being surveilled for a potential weapon.
that's exactly what happened when i went to a store next door my oncologist.
It’s Time to End the Tyranny of Ultra-Processed Food (www.wired.com)
Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight.
Researchers induce cancer cells to 'commit suicide' with a self-produced bacterial toxin (phys.org)
For the first time in the world researchers at Tel Aviv University have encoded a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA (messenger RNA) molecules and delivered these particles directly to cancer cells, causing the cells to produce the toxin—which eventually killed them with a success rate of 50%.