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[Paul Crowley reposted] Sawyer 🔍, ⏸/⏹, is ap... @Coughs... — 6h Look, idk what you want me to say. Increased testing catches more cancers, but also leads to more concussions since every time a positive test comes back I whack the patient with my enormous wooden mallet. All the tech in the world won't make this problem go away. [quoted tweet] Nope nope no... @TomWright165... — 10h Replying to @MichaelAlbertMD Imagine if you had the restraint to avoid over treating but you could catch every cancer at the earliest point as it moved through the stage, what then?

[Top, cut off: chart citing "Sources: Dataforce, EEA, Euro NCAP, GlobalData • Average is weighted by sales" with CleanCities/T&E branding — appears to be an EV-related chart. 💬 2 ♥ 11 📊 1K] Dan Elton @moreisdifferent · 2h Good list of off-label medications to try if you have #LongCOVID. Also try cognitive behavioral therapy and graded activity (carefully). Basically, try all the things! Many have found at least one of these things worked, and they all have plausible mechanisms of action. [Embedded image, list:] McCone and others are asking doctors to learn about and use off-label drugs that show evidence of helping long COVID symptoms. Among them: • Low-dose naltrexone for fatigue • Nicotine patches for fatigue • Rapamycin for immune function • Triptans for headaches • Beta-blockers for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, dizziness • Paxlovid for viral persistence • Plavix and other blood thinners for blood clots 💬 2 🔁 ♥ 2 📊 178 Paul Crowley @ciphergoth · 42m In our case, what we thought was a post-viral condition turned out to be Hashimoto's: a TPOAb test proved it where thyroid levels were marginal, and thyroxin has proven a miracle cure. ♥ 1 📊 26 Robin Hanson @robinhanson · 4h "rural populations have been underestimated by between 53% to 84% over the period studied" popularmechanics.com/science/enviro... [Article thumbnail: crowd of people]