New study claims heavy alcohol use tied to severe brain bleeds at younger ages

A new study from researchers at Mass General Brigham, published in Neurology, has found that heavy alcohol use…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #brainbleed #EdipGurol #HarvardGazette #heavydrinking #Latvia #LV #MassGeneralBrigham #strokerisk
https://www.newsbeep.com/238149/

We’re very excited to welcome our new #CURIOSS member, Marvin Barksdale!

We look forward to collaborating with Marvin and learning more about #OpenScience and #OpenSource at #MassGeneralBrigham

ℹ️ More about MGB Innovation: https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/research-and-innovation/innovation

🔍 More about our members: https://curioss.org/about/members/

#AcademicOSPOs #AcademicOSS #OpenSourceSoftware #OSScommunity

“PanChol” clinical trial thread unroll

In October and November 2024, I participated in a clinical trial for a cholera vaccine called “PanChol” being developed at Boston’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital (a.k.a. Mass General Brigham). Current cholera vaccines are expensive and not very effective and difficult to distribute and administer because they have strict temperature storage requirements and are injected rather than given orally. In contrast, the PanChol vaccine is given orally, and the doctors developing it believe they will be able to make it shelf-stable to be rehydrated on-site.

During the trial I had to stay in the hospital for about a week in isolation. I “live-tooted” about my stay on Mastodon. Those posts have scrolled off of everyone’s feed, so I thought it would be a good idea to capture them here, because I’m about to participate again in the next phase of the clinical trial which I’ll be posting about. I wanted to make it easy for people who are curious to go back and look at what I posted before, especially since a I subsequently deleted a couple of posts in the thread to free up space on the server so the thread isn’t contiguous when you view it in the fediverse.

Below, therefore, are all my posts with the “#PanCholLiveToot” hashtag before today.

https://federate.social/@jik/113385768267486863

https://federate.social/@jik/113385827145137752

https://federate.social/@jik/113385949805187032

https://federate.social/@jik/113385964038084019

https://federate.social/@jik/113386006517341852

https://federate.social/@jik/113386031992291779

https://federate.social/@jik/113386053192915945

https://federate.social/@jik/113386076291635900

https://federate.social/@jik/113386134657061712

https://federate.social/@jik/113386182255222135

https://federate.social/@jik/113386198277860129

https://federate.social/@jik/113386232627375377

https://federate.social/@jik/113386257290593978

https://federate.social/@jik/113386615817815890

https://federate.social/@jik/113386630153673751

https://federate.social/@jik/113386652590260059

https://federate.social/@jik/113386697495508206

https://federate.social/@jik/113387190475691646

https://federate.social/@jik/113387191709149227

https://federate.social/@jik/113387238096635506

https://federate.social/@jik/113390494205867631

https://federate.social/@jik/113390788734605108

https://federate.social/@jik/113396558266945482

https://federate.social/@jik/113403017910706067

https://federate.social/@jik/113403026215960042

https://federate.social/@jik/113403031659784213

https://federate.social/@jik/113403043672831863

https://federate.social/@jik/113403071480609170

https://federate.social/@jik/113407805990692740

https://federate.social/@jik/113407841630549472

https://federate.social/@jik/113408574762529783

https://federate.social/@jik/113410473174217460

https://federate.social/@jik/113413964488963810

https://federate.social/@jik/113414002326890114

https://federate.social/@jik/113414016586114260

https://federate.social/@jik/113414037027571298

https://federate.social/@jik/113414044369582349

https://federate.social/@jik/113414058388673871

https://federate.social/@jik/113414065537916664

https://federate.social/@jik/113414183368438218

https://federate.social/@jik/113415633468159697

https://federate.social/@jik/113415662147124239

https://federate.social/@jik/113415685851142372

https://federate.social/@jik/113415700797873217

https://federate.social/@jik/113415762826943777

Deleted post from the thread resurrected from my backup:

“Several people at work this week have commented to me that the room I’m in looks like something out of 2001: A Space Odyssey. People in the thread here have commented as well. It’s even more true when I’m on Meet / Teams / Zoom and I turn on background blurring:”

https://federate.social/@jik/113415879316539727

https://federate.social/@jik/113415891209286993

https://federate.social/@jik/113415908400419490

https://federate.social/@jik/113419905989936266

Deleted post from the thread resurrected from my backup:

“Free at last, and already failing to follow the doctor’s instructions to use sunblock until a couple days after I finish the antibiotics (doxycycline causes sun sensitivity). I did not bring sunblock with me to the hospital six days ago. 😉 Waiting for the bus. Could have taken a Lyft that they would have reimbursed me for, but does the kind of person who volunteers for clinical trials take a Lyft when there’s perfectly good public transit? No, he does not.”

https://federate.social/@jik/114265543197475183

https://federate.social/@jik/114265544292941615

https://federate.social/@jik/114265552936138377

https://federate.social/@jik/114926896103129335

https://federate.social/@jik/114926903879889071

#BrighamWomenSHospital #cholera #clinicalTrials #MassGeneralBrigham #PanChol

Does Mediterranean diet reduce the risk of dementia?

The food that people choose could have a powerful impact on the risk of developing dementia. That’s according to a new study that found following a Mediterranean diet …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #Alzheimer'sDisease #dementia #geneticrisk #MassGeneralBrigham #Mediterranean #mediterraneanfood
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2251581/does-mediterranean-diet-reduce-the-risk-of-dementia/

Does Mediterranean diet reduce the risk of dementia?

The food that people choose could have a powerful impact on the risk of developing dementia. That’s according to a new study that found following a Mediterranean diet reduces the ris…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanFood #Alzheimer'sDisease #dementia #geneticrisk #MassGeneralBrigham #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #mediterraneanfood
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2251581/does-mediterranean-diet-reduce-the-risk-of-dementia/

#JudgementDay for the #MerchantsofDeath

Our tribunal, seeking to hold the #WarProfiteers to account, represents the yearning of millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.

Nick Mottern
Jan 12, 2025

"On January 15, 2025, five days before the inauguration of a U.S. president who threatens to rain down hell on the Palestinian people, and more war to the world, the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will release its final report on how #LockheedMartin, #Boeing, #RTX / #Raytheon and #drone-maker #GeneralAtomics have delivered hell to millions across the globe since 9/11.

"The Tribunal’s 35 evidentiary episodes explain how these four defendant corporations have been essential enablers of the U.S. colonial campaign of murder, extortion and thievery since 9/11, epitomized in the horrific crescendo of violence that is already being rained down on the #Palestinian people. This grossly illegal war campaign—without equal in U.S. history in its geographic scope and length—is largely dependent on the products of the tribunal’s four defendant corporations.

"The tribunal episodes explain how the U.S. campaign since 9/11 flows directly from the post-World War II decisions by U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. businessmen and their congressional allies to try to pick up the reins of colonial control around the world that were being dropped by war-ruined European nations.

"The U.S. leaders were, of course, acting from their racist cultural and business roots, extending back deep into slavery and the #genocide against the first inhabitants of the continent, atrocities on which the U.S. was founded. They set us on the bloody path on which we find ourselves today.

"For these industrialists and their political enablers, siding with liberation movements anywhere in the world meant less #profits for U.S. #corporations. Thus, #ColonialLiberation must be officially described as a 'communist' threat to be dealt with through direct and #ProxyKilling, #repression, #torture, and terror.

"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11.

"A permanent military industry was needed to enable this mafia-style scheme of international exploitation. Tribunal video episodes describe ways in which the U.S. public has been manipulated to support this military industrial system, to their great economic, spiritual and intellectual disadvantage as the U.S. economy and the wealth of its #oligarchs, like #ElonMusk, has become more and more dependent on war and intimidation.

"After World War I, even the Senate and Congress condemned gross war profiteering. Challenges to weapon manufacturers profiteering continued during World War II, though greatly diminished by war propaganda. Congressional support for weapons makers surged in the post-World War II years, so much so that 'defense' stocks have become sacred elements of college and university endowment funds, pension funds and private portfolios.

"The immensity of this dependency on war stocks breached the surface of public awareness in the spring of 2024 as students in support of Palestinian life and liberation demanded that their schools disclose and divest their stock in weapons makers.

"Students at Smith College occupied the school’s administration building for 14 days, calling on an institution that had divested from apartheid South Africa-connected stock to drop its holdings in L3 Harris and other war stock. The school’s board of trustees refused, calling the school’s holdings ”negligible”. Then in the fall, Smith administrators, and their colleagues nationwide moved, deplorably, to suppress students’ free speech.

"Wealth-driven weapons makers who must be protected by the so-called educators, and are revered in the business world, are the successors to those weapons makers in early 20th Century war-grieving America, who were often depicted as #overconsumptive, sleezy, #MoneyGrubbing vultures, feeding on the corpses and misery of the war dead and afflicted.

"Now, we have reached a point in which James Taiclet, the president, chair and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the largest weapons maker in the world, whose F-35s, F-16s and Hellfire missiles have been slaughtering Palestinians wholesale, can be a valued member of the board of directors of #MassGeneralBrigham, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, serving 2.6 million patients a year.

"Intervening in this surging, greed-driven, incredibly lethal mess, the Tribunal rapporteurs and an international panel of 10 jurors, offer 13 recommendations for action by the public and by government officials to pull the profit out from under war and to provide reparations for the vast harm visited on millions of people by the Merchants of Death and the U.S. government since 9/11.

"More specifically, we tribunal coordinators want to work with prosecutors around the world to bring the #CEOs of the defendant corporations to justice for having enabled, since the October 2001 invasion of #Afghanistan, #WarCrimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

"We want to work with student and other movements to end private and public investment in weapons production.

"We must note that in our investigation, we repeatedly called on the defendant corporations to respond, in one instance getting arrested in the process. The four defendant corporations ignored us. We repeatedly asked members of Congress to answer our questions about their involvement with weapons makers. They ignored us.

"The work of the Tribunal was made possible by the volunteer and the extremely low paid work of more than 40 people—students, filmmakers, artists, journalists, and others who joined us at various times over nearly three years to complete our video evidentiary episodes and report.

"Those involved represent millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression, everywhere, so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.

"In this, we hope that the Tribunal recommendations will be among the guide stars that will help us chart our course, shining above the hurricane of greed and viciousness now ravaging the U.S and the world.

"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11, of those calling to the world from their graves, from their hospital beds, from their poverty and dislocation and their relentless battles against racism in their places of refuge.

"Note: You may register [at the link below] for the January 15, 2025, (9 a.m. Eastern time), tribunal report release press conference. The 35 evidentiary video episodes appear on the Rumble platform and can be easily accessed at MerchantsofDeath.org, as can our Tribunal Study Guide and our podcast – Merchants of Death Radio.

Source:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/merchants-of-death-tribunal

To register:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/press-conference-tribunal?clear_id=true
#WarCriminals #EndlessWar #Genocide #NoWar