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We asked Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. who is a general practitioner, medical researcher, and the founder of PrimeHealth Family Practice and Clinical Research, to share her thoughts on the topic, and she told Bored Panda, "If I had one wish, it would be that the world unifies to fight the globe's biggest issues."
"This takes a lot of cooperation and it is a big wish to fight climate change, the loss of ecosystems, to begin understanding that the animal world is not separate from the human one. All of our health—the humans', animals', and plants'—is actually interlinked."
#2
There are differences in d**g efficacy, growth, disease susceptibility or immunity just about everything.
It's preventing personalized treatments. AI can now pretty accurately guess someone's race and s*x from a single view chest xray so things may change.
People always think of this as a negative but in reality it should be approached like family history being super relevant for cancer or heart disease surveillance.
#3
It’s commonly said in my field that whoever figures this out will win the next Nobel prize in medicine
According to Gorfinkel, "If we're to prevent the next pandemic or if we're to successfully fight antibiotic resistance and make sure the world has food and that food is safe, it cannot be done without cooperation."
"This integrated approach is not something new; it's under the World Health Organization's One Health plan," she said.
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While health, food, water, energy, and environment are all wide topics with sector-specific concerns, the WHO highlights that our collaboration across sectors and disciplines does contribute to addressing health challenges such as the emergence of infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and food safety and promote the health and integrity of our ecosystems.
#6
The cancer of a specialized gland cell is called adenocarcinoma.
The cancer of a skin cell is called squamous cell carcinoma.
The cancer of a melanocyte is melanoma and so on.
So anytime someone says, “they’re hiding the cure for cancer” they are being magnificently ignorant.
-Pathologist.
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By linking humans, animals and the environment, the One Health program aims to address the full spectrum of disease control – from prevention to detection, preparedness, response and management – and contribute to global health security.
The approach can be applied at the community, subnational, national, regional, and global levels and relies on shared and effective governance, communication, collaboration and coordination. One Health makes it easier for people to better understand the co-benefits, risks, trade-offs, and opportunities to advance equitable and holistic solutions, so if there's a way to answer the questions we see on this list, it's this.
#9
What blows my mind is, it's distinct enough that we even pass gas while asleep. That difference must be wired DEEP!
#10
Me: Why do I need to take Claritin before chemo?
Nurse: It helps with bone pain.
Me: Oh, that's interesting, why is that?
Nurse: Nobody knows!
Me: What's the cording I'm experiencing in my arm following my mastectomy?
Physical Therapist: Nobody actually knows what it's made of or where it comes from!
Me: Why am I suddenly unable to eat gluten following my cancer treatment?
Gastro Doc: Trauma, probably?
Having cancer really made it clear to me that so much of the human body is still a mystery!
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#12
Also, the only way to remove or get rid of endometriosis is through surgery. But there is a high rate of recurrence after surgery. Some women undergo multiple surgeries for it.
#13
Good friend died of pneumonia (he was too busy at work, couldn't afford to take time off), he kept using OTC meds for the symptoms.
He died unattended, so the coroner had to get involved, they did an autopsy. His body had cancer in three different places, he never stopped.
Dude was old-time tough.
#14
1) We still aren't exactly sure how anesthesia works. We just know it causes certain effects, and they are useful so we use it.
2) psychiatry is still shockingly infantile in our understanding of human disorders. It's constantly in a state of flux, we don't understand a lot about the meds we currently use, and the diagnostic criteria for disorders still changes as we realize "hey maybe all these behaviors aren't the same source disorder". It's incredibly hard to diagnose when the criteria is largely based on self report and subjective observations.
3) To a lesser degree than #2, neurology is still learning a lot. It's further because you can observe more objective findings in neuro than psych, but we still struggle a lot with how brains function.
4) Immunology. Don't even ask me, because no one knows really.
5) yawns. Still guessing on why that happens too. There's some theories, but that's the best we got.
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...is the actual name, of an actual diagnosis, given to my wife and I, because according to every test, based on what modern medical science knows about fertility, we're fine. We *should* be able to conceive. "All the numbers are right." We probably even would be able to conceive, either of us, with different partners. But no one knows why the two of us can't, *together*. And it happens to far more couples than anyone talks about. But the only diagnosis we all get, is "unexplained infertility".
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