Turns out, the Haber Bosch process working best with piles of cheap natural gas means that all the fertilizer is now made in like three places
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Turns out, the Haber Bosch process working best with piles of cheap natural gas means that all the fertilizer is now made in like three places
This is at least the third attack on democratic official residences by right wing actors in under a year no?
there were the murders of the minnesotta state reps
the burning of the PA governor residence
and now this?
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Damn.
This happened. The print interview was edited in ways that feel very jumpy, but I got to say some things. Like: Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war. [and then there's a crazy jump-cut w/out transition.]
Predicting a return to reading books. It will be on the frontier of resisting subjection.
Yes. And it’s ok
Yes. Last July
Also in AHRQ news today...
bsky.app/profile/jeff...
Dreams of 1973 stagflation were dancing in their heads
And many immigrants were doing jobs others wouldn’t do, so now businesses are closing because “no labor”
Table showing Liver Function Test Utilization at and After CDK4/6 Inhibitor Initiation. Palbociclib: 8192 patients, 3844 (46.9%) within 2 weeks prior, 996 (12.2%) at initiation, 6585 (80.4%) after. Similar data is shown for Abemaciclib and Ribociclib.
Among patients initiating CDK4/6 inhibitors for HR-positive, ERBB2-negative #BreastCancer, most received liver function tests during treatment, but less than half had testing before initiation as recommended by FDA package insert.
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“And when he learned that one of his secretaries had two children sickened by lead… Lafayette organized high school students to screen toddlers for lead poisoning by collecting urine samples, and prodded Chicago to help develop the nation’s first mass screening for lead poisoning”
Bar graph displays risk of health care use with/without PCP. Categories: Any hospitalization(patient-level & IV model), Any ED visit(patient-level & IV model), Nonhospital ED visit(patient-level & IV model). P values are included above the bars.
Primary care physician involvement for patients receiving dialysis with end-stage kidney disease was associated with lower emergency department utilization, but not with reduced hospitalizations.
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Figure 1. Trends in Skilled Nursing Facility Capacity. A line graph shows 'Certified beds' steady at 1.6 million, 'Estimated operating capacity' decreases to 1.15 million in 2021 and then slowly increases, and 'Actual census' follows a similar trend.
Skilled nursing facility operating capacity in the US declined by 5% since 2019, with the largest losses in rural counties and areas reporting staff shortages, impacting hospital discharge and access to facility-based postacute care. ja.ma/3P9ZX6Q
amazing from start to finish (and of course I'm stoked about the name check)
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
A new Annenberg poll shows Americans trust federal career scientists and independent medical groups more than in the political leaders running U.S. health agencies
www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stark-divide...
Thank you for your inquiry, and for your interest in the AHRQ Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) program. Unfortunately, AHRQ does not have current staffing to support scientific review, as the HHS Reduction in Force resulted in the layoff of our Division of Scientific Review, among others, and these Divisions and their functions have not been reestablished. Applicants are advised that if there are other potential sources of funding, they should consider those.
Email reply from AHRQ. When you or your family member or your patient dies of a healthcare-associated infection, remember who eliminated all science trying to prevent these infections
The Ever Given blocking the smaller Suez Canal had a $10 billion/day impact www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/w...
Practice-changing study: 4-week oral vancomycin taper superior to standard 2-week pulse in randomized double-blinded study of hospitalized patients
Hoping head-to-head against fidaxomicin comes soon!
#Cdiff
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“.. a record 6% of workers in 401(k) plans administered by Vanguard Group took a hardship withdrawal. That is up from 4.8% in 2024 and a prepandemic average of about 2% ..”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
My latest @cidrap.bsky.social op-ed: The mRNA COVID vaccine myocarditis signal was real. The system caught it. Since 2022, no updated formulation has triggered a significant myocarditis signal.
ACIP's March agenda is premised on a risk its own data say has resolved
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...
It’s a bit tiresome, but I think a good general practice when you feel your own institutional/professional life eroding under the forces of late capital is to focus on mentally connecting that feeling of struggle to the many others experiencing versions of the same.
Cohort study of ~11.5M singleton births across 677 counties between 1968-1988, aggregated to the county-month level, finds community water fluoridation was not associated with statistically significant changes in birth weight.
🛟😷 health policy
No
Good thing I just took an antiemetic
All 4 Army Reserve troops who were killed Sunday in Kuwait were assigned to 103rd Sustainment Command in Des Moines https://www.thegazette.com/news/iowa-soldier-among-u-s-service-members-killed-in-middle-east/article_8d7b6c46-0aac-4c19-abb6-b9b3394e2e53.html
Mom in MN. VA nurse in MN. 20yo kid from Des Moines. It keeps getting worse and worse
