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Subtyping Thyroid Function Testing Halved Positive Diagnoses

1 week ago | medscape.com | Whitney McKnight

Whether clinicians are accurately diagnosing thyroid disease was at issue for Chinese researchers who demonstrated that adding subgroup differences according to age, sex, or race when testing for thyroid disease reduced by half the number of persons eligible for L-thyroxine, a treatment for hypothyroidism. It is the first study to examine the effect of combined age, sex, and race on the diagnosis of thyroid diseases, the authors wrote. The results were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Breastfeeding Finds a Medical Home

2 weeks ago | medscape.com | Whitney McKnight

There’s no money to study breastfeeding or provide care. There are packs of angry influencers and others on social media ready to vilify anyone who addresses it in clinical terms. Perhaps most dispiriting of all is that breastfeeding is so misunderstood in the medical community; problems encountered during breastfeeding are too often misdiagnosed and mistreated.
USPSTF Finds Poor Support in Primary Care

1 month ago | medscape.com | Whitney McKnight

The main takeaway from a recent US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) update on breastfeeding interventions is that a lack of support at the primary care level, compounded by societal barriers, can interfere with a family’s desire to breastfeed their child and even make them feel badly about their circumstances, according to experts.
MUC-1 Vaccine Shows Notable Overall Survival Rates in BC

1 month ago | medscape.com | Whitney McKnight

The MUC-1 vaccine tecemotide plus standard neoadjuvant systemic therapy was shown to notably improve distant relapse-free survival and overall survival rates in breast cancer patients, in a new study. "This is the first successful study of a breast cancer vaccine to date," Christian F. Singer, MD, said during an interview. Dr Singer, the lead author of the new study, presented the results during a poster session at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Night is nearly extinct

2 months ago | documental.substack.com | Whitney McKnight

vol. 7 issue 4Hello, Friends. First, you might notice I’m doing a little bit of rebranding. Or at least, I am currently experimenting with different looks. I’m also developing better Substack hygiene so that posts aren’t filled with outdated headers and footers. It’s all in anticipation of some new material I have been working on. I have poured through the nearly 300 entries in this publication, and detected the themes most common to my work. Surprise! I believe respecting nature is key to everything.
Lex-traordinary! Amadeus Lex dazzles on Friday night

2 months ago | theedgebereaky.com | Whitney McKnight

A triumph of tone and precision reigned Friday night when Amadeus Lex played at Union Church before a sizable crowd. CrosmerThe program began with the eminently listenable prelude from the work, Spring Suite, composed by the group’s founder, violist, Jonathan Crosmer. An intricate work for solo violin, soloist Sila Darville freely intoned the bright, sometimes edgy, lines of the piece, and was earnest in her performance.
Changes by State in Ob/Gyn Workforce Post Dobbs

2 months ago | medscape.com | Whitney McKnight

A look at healthcare workforce patterns in states where abortion access is either banned or restricted following the Dobbs decision, which ended federal abortion rights, found evidence of an exodus of women’s health providers. “[The] findings provide early confirmation of reports that clinicians have migrated from states most impacted by the Dobbs decision,” Jane M.
A world without stars: the endless day is nearly here, warns astrophysicist

2 months ago | theedgebereaky.com | Whitney McKnight

If we’d not been able to see clearly all the stars in the night sky, we would not have been able to develop navigation. All that has been discovered by mapping the stars would perhaps remain unknown to us. If we’d not have had an understanding of the night sky, there would not have been an Apollo mission to the Moon. There would have been no “one step for all mankind”.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Coyotes sightings on the rise now that it’s breeding season

2 months ago | thetimestribune.com | Whitney McKnight

There used to be a pair. The smaller coyote hasn’t come around for about six weeks now. I used to watch from my deck as they frolicked in the cow pasture behind my home. There was a pattern to their play: One would hunker down in the grass, hidden from view. The other, smaller one, would hop-run across the field, then stop. The hidden one would spring into the air and run to meet the other one. Then they would repeat this game. Now, the larger of the pair skulks alone along the edges of the field.
Love letter to South Florida

2 months ago | documental.substack.com | Whitney McKnight

Greetings,I grew up in South Florida — various places around Palm Beach County, where I have been visiting my dad for the past week as, back home in Kentucky, towns are succumbing to floods followed by snow drifts. By the time I had graduated high school in Connecticut, I had moved 14 times. I had no idea that wasn't normal. But I did know that it contributed greatly to my chronic sadness, redolent of the longing to belong somewhere, and to something — something stable and kind.