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Glucocorticoids (Corticosteroids), the leeches of the 20th and 21st centuries
As kids in the 40s and 50s, when our parents drove us into Philly for our yearly shopping for school clothes at Jacob Reed’s, we’d pass a pharmacy just off the Ben Franklin Bridge which adv...
The pandemic is over
Years ago my brother said the population is being immunized by infection. Most infections with the current SARS-CoV-2 virus are asymptomatic. The previous post https://luysii.wordpress.com/20...
https://luysii.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/the-pandemic-is-over/
Useful COVID information which should have been published 2 years ago
Useful information #1 Despite the fact that 1.3% of the Danish population studied from 1/18 to 1/22 had a positive antibody test for SARS-CoV-2 (76,700 people) at most times, the maximum number...
A skewed distribution
100 faculty at Columbia wrote a letter defending ‘robust inquiry’, e.g. students supporting Hamas shortly after their attack of 7 October 2023. Here’s a link to the letter and the signatori...
https://luysii.wordpress.com/2024/04/21/a-skewed-distribution/
Charm School
It was nice to get back to the science (https://luysii.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/cholesin/) after several long detours through current events but reality continues to intrude. The firing of 30 G...
Cholesin
You wouldn’t think that there was anything more to be said about cholesterol metabolism after decades of work by med school classmate Mike Brown and a host other researchers. But there is. Th...
The viruses in our brains
PNMA2 (ParaNeoplastic antigen MA2) is a protein initially found as the target of the immune response (autoantibodies) producing a nasty dementing neurologic disease (Paraneoplastic encephalitis)....
https://luysii.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/the-viruses-in-our-brains/
Harvard closes a library ” “driven primarily by financial considerations,”
Unless someone has taken over the Harvard Crimson website the following isn’t fake news: here’s a link — https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/19/wolbach-library-closure/. The Harvard...
See how well you think outside the box
The next total eclipse of the sun visible in the USA will occur 8 April 2024. I well remember one in Montana 26 February 1979. People flocked to Lewistown where the eclipse was to be total, ...
https://luysii.wordpress.com/2024/03/23/see-how-well-you-think-outside-the-box/
Axiomatize This !
“Analyze This”, is a very funny 1999 sendup of the Mafia and psychiatry with Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal. For some reason the diagram on p. 7 of Barrett O’Neill’s book “Elementary...