Poisoning native Australian predators in the name of rodent control

"Secondary poisoning is not an accidental or a misuse scenario. It is a highly predictable outcome of allowing the use of poisons in our ecosystems that accumulate in the body."

"Australia will continue using rodenticides that cause the greatest harm, Many native animals will continue to die slow and painful deaths." >>
https://theconversation.com/household-rat-poisons-found-to-be-unacceptable-risk-to-native-animals-so-why-arent-they-banned-272346
#Anticoagulant #rodenticides #SGARs #NativeWildlife #CompanionSpecies #biodiversity #poison #regulation #harm

Nicotine May Aid Parkinson's - Layne Norton and Peter Attia

#anticoagulant

Nicotine May Aid Parkinson's - Layne Norton and Peter Attia

#anticoagulant

Adriani Felix just posted two #preLights as part of a wonderful #preprint review initiative led by Marcus Oliveira #UFRJ

1️⃣ Adriani covers work from the Skidmore group, presenting BeHepI as a valuable tool for heparin quality control and structural analysis. Work that paves the way for safer and more effective blood thinners.

#preLight: https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/enzymatic-access-to-the-rare-%ce%b4ua-1%e2%86%924-glc-3-6-n-sulfated-heparin-disaccharide-implications-for-heparin-quality-control/

#heparin #heparinase #biochemistry #medicine #anticoagulant #therapy

Dead owls are piling up in my freezer

"Australia is one of the last countries to ban or tightly regulate the use of first and second generation anticoagulant rodenticides...Rat and mouse baits containing second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides are commonly found in big-brand hardware stores."
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https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/dead-owls-are-piling-up-in-my-freezer-perth-scientists-take-a-stand-20240704-p5jr71.html
#birds #NonTarget #wildlife #owls #APVMA #regulation #toxins #pesticide #anticoagulant #rodenticides #harm #FoodChain

“#Flaco… had a severe pigeon #herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different #anticoagulant #rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/zoo-releases-final-necropsy-results-flaco-owls-death/story?id=108479170&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab

Predictors and Outcomes of Oral #Anticoagulant Deprescribing in Geriatric Inpatients With #AtrialFibrillation: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study

When a comprehensive geriatric assessment guides the OAT #Deprescribing, no increased risk of #stroke or systemic embolism events is reported

#Geriatrics #Health #MedMastodon #Care #Cardiology

https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(24)00067-7/fulltext?rss=yes

#CrittersOfMastodon

The World's Deadliest Animals are #Mosquitoes; It looks basic and yet it's built like a perfect #machine.Using an electron #microscope: HEAD: exactly 100 eyes. MOUTH: 48 teeth.
In the chest, one for the center & two for the wings, there are 3 hearts & in each heart 2 auricles & 2 ventricles.

This little mosquito has a heat receptor to find living things with heat. The heat sensitivity of this device is one thousandth of a degree Celsius. A very advanced #blood analyzer, and also an anesthetic device to easily absorb the blood, so that its victim does not react to the sting. And also an #anticoagulant device to be able to absorb the blood.

There are six tiny blades on its suction pipe; with four of them he makes a square incision and with the other two he forms a tube to absorb the blood.

They also have #claws and hooks on their feet to hold on to their food source.