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Another “Stop Buying Plastics!” fact
From Harper’s November 2023 Findings: The heart tissues of cardiac surgery patients were found to be embedded with at least nine kinds of microplastics.
Posted in Medical care in the US, The Facts of Life
Tagged cardiac surgery, Harper's, microplastics
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If you have a chronic health condition, have you ever wondered where steroids came from?
I do and I did. I first began to understand the ubiquity of steroids while my father slowly went downhill due to emphysema. There was no remedy but there were two mitigating substances he took. One of them was prednisone. … Continue reading
Posted in Medical care in the US, The Facts of Life
Tagged anti-inflammatories, emphysema, google, Percy Lavon Julian, prednisone, steroids, uveitis
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Your regular “Does anything good ever come out of the south?” news
From Harper’s Weekly Review: “We’re going to start slitting throats on day one,” said presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, who in an interview also insisted that enslaved Americans learned useful, transferable skills, such as blacksmithing, and that “Joe Biden’s the president.” … Continue reading
Posted in Animal news, Fascism, Medical care in the US, political campaigns, Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life
Tagged AP psychology, College Board, Harper's, in god we trust, leprosy outbreak in Florida, manatee orgies, Ron DeSantis
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