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Who cares about clinical trial data for these people. Let them be the trial. The alternatives suck. If you can sign a waiver and jump out of an airplane for nothing more than thrills, why can’t they sign a waiver and try stem cells (or whatever else shows promise)?
Regenerative medicines are headed for people with Parkinson’s disease or severe heart failure — but researchers are concerned about minimal clinical-trial data
go.nature.com/4axz19F
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1.1 Nuclear Fission is all that’s required to power our civilization (Nuclear Fusion is a nice-to-have); 1.2 Existing Nuclear Plants are based on outdated technology and even safer and cleaner options exist.
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0.459060301* NSTEMI does not benefit from thrombolysis; equivocal benefit from percutaneous coronary intervention
0.101090023* High-risk syncope history = exercise-induced syncope; family history of sudden cardiac death
0.266053609"* Treatment of ST elevation in cocaine chest pain: benzodiazepine, aspirin, nitrate, calcium channel blocker, phentolamine"
0.123698811* Hernias: strangulated (loss of arterial blood supply) is worse than incarcerated (irreducible)
0.922749493* The appropriate treatment for right ventricular MI = FLUIDS; beware of nitroglycerin and vasodilators!
0.311825213* Systolic heart failure = failure of forward flow (poor contraction/pumping). Diastolic heart failure = failure of heart fillin
0.488868125* Indication for fasciotomy for compartment syndrome: 1) abnormal compartment pressure (>30mmHg); or 2) abnormal delta pressure