Dr Jay to the NIH?

from RedState:

Trump Nominates Stanford Professor Who Sounded Alarm on COVID Lockdowns—and Was Censored—for Dir. of NIH

IndiaToday article: Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University Was a staunch critic of the US government's Covid policies Faced social media restrictions over his viewsAs the NIH director, he will oversee 27 institutes and centres that conduct early-stage research, spanning areas such as developing vaccines for emerging pandemic threats and identifying targets for new drug therapies.

and yes, he was censored.

why is this important? Because he was ceonsored, but he was pointing out problems since almost the start of the epidemic. This is from October 2021.

the economic pressure here was severe: we had to have our drivers get a thrity dollow covid test to deliver rice to Manila, and the mail was not always picked up, so I had trouble depositing checks from my US accounts.

The good news: Farmers didn't pay a lot of attention. The second good news: I did get a AZ shot late in the year, but it was known to cause blood clots so it was limited to those of us high risk. The mRNA came later, mainly because the DOH refused to sign a no liability clause. They later agreed to give out the vaccine, but I suspect it was because all the earlier studies showed few problems (something that turned out to be a lie, in both efficiency and in side effects especially with repeated shots). Once Omicron hit, we stopped getting shots.

nano spaghetti to the rescue

 

from PopSci: \

Behold the world’s thinnest spaghetti The 'nanopasta' is 200x thinner than a human hair. ]

This nanofiber is about 200 times thinner than a human hair and was created by a team at University College London (UCL). While it won’t be making its way onto the menu of an Italian restaurant anytime soon, this creation was cooked up in a lab because nanofibers have wide applications in medicine and industrial design.'' To do this, they used a technique called electrospinning. '

An electric charge pulls threads of flour and liquid through the tip of a needle. in the journal Nanoscale 

Advances.Earthcom article notes:The microscopic mats of nanofibers are permeable enough to permit the passage of water and moisture, while acting as a protective barrier against harmful bacteria.

anti worm and anti parasite medicines for cancer?

,,,

article one:Front Oncol. 2021 Apr 29;11:670804. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.670804 Repositioning of Antiparasitic Drugs for Tumor Treatment. table here is a summary

Antitumor mechanism of antiparasitic drugs us symmarized in the table

another article here on ivermectin. Ivermectin induces apoptosis and autophagy is mutually regulated. Interestingly, ivermectin can also inhibit tumor stem cells and reverse multidrug resistance and exerts the optimal effect when used in combination with other chemotherapy drugs.

the irony: These are medicines used in animals and also in humans and have few side effects, but often there is no money for expensive studies. (the articles tend to be from Asia). So will Trump pass a "Free to try" law?

one is reminded of the HIV treatment problems in the Dallas Buyer's Club.

Oreos or statins?

From Improbable research: full report here:

not for everyone, just for a subgroup of the population.

In this case study experiment on a lean mass hyper-responder on a ketogenic diet, Oreo cookie supplementation lowered LDL-C by 273 mg/dL over 16 days, a 71% drop, as compared to a smaller 137 mg/dL peak reduction, a 32.5% drop, with 6 weeks of high-intensity statin therapy. These findings are consistent with the lipid energy model and highlight the need for further studies on this unique lean mass hyper-responder population.

good or bad?

None of @RobertKennedyJr 's views "have any value whatsoever," say the media. But even the author admits RFK's right about fluoride, raw milk, and the danger of Big Pharma. Elites are freaking out because they know RFK will hold them accountable for their gross abuses of power. pic.twitter.com/wHFbRTzVC0

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) November 14, 2024

diabetes cure

Incredible man who invented an ultra simple hydration formula for people with cholera - 0.5L water, 1 fistfull of sugar, 1 pinch of salt. Number of kids dying of diarrhea fell by 90% even as population went up 70% https://t.co/Ln0hXWiw55

— Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 (@aaron_renn) November 10, 2024

simple things that save lives

 

Incredible man who invented an ultra simple hydration formula for people with cholera - 0.5L water, 1 fistfull of sugar, 1 pinch of salt. Number of kids dying of diarrhea fell by 90% even as population went up 70% https://t.co/Ln0hXWiw55

— Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 (@aaron_renn) November 10, 2024

Trump vs the corrupt WHO

 

The treaty is a fraud of course LINKThe proposed "Pandemic Treaty" is NOT designed to prevent the next pandemic. The World Health Organization has failed to address the obvious fact that regulatory agencies around the world have been captured by pharmaceutical interests. In fact, they are profiting from it. >LINK< It is designed to enable a small group of well-positioned people to profit from the next pandemic.

More here. The WHO's "Prequalification" and "Emergency Use Listing" Racket Are products that are approved, "Prequalified" or listed for emergency use (EUL) by the World Health Organization truly "safe and effective," or is this just another corrupt, money-making racket? James Roguski Nov 07, 2024 Share Leave a comment Type your email... Subscribe Are you aware that the World Health Organization has “prequalified” 272 vaccines? They charge over $100,000 per vaccine! In order for “health related products” to be part of the United Nations procurement system, they must be “prequalified” by the WHO, which charges substantial one-time and ongoing fees in return for their “prequalification.” A “racket” is defined as the act of creating demand for a “service” through extortion or intimidation when such a “service” would not have been needed otherwise. A “racketeer” is a person who engages in organized criminal activity, typically for financial gain.

 “Racketeering” is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit. 

 Is the WHO ethically and financially liable for the harm that results from the products that they “prequalify?” Or does their money-making scheme enable them to create an illusion of safety and effectiveness while redirecting blame to the Responsible National Regulatory Agencies? Click on the links below for details: https://extranet.who.int/prequal/vaccines/fees-prequalification https://extranet.who.int/prequal/vaccines/prequalified-vaccines 

 If manufacturers want their products to be eligible for procurement by United Nations agencies, they must submit to the World Health Organization’s scheme to have their products “prequalified.” The “Pandemic Agreement” is NOT designed to improve health and there is absolutely no evidence that it will prevent future pandemics. 

 It is actually a corrupt business deal that is designed to dramatically expand the Pharmaceutical Hospital Emergency Industrial Complex (PHEIC) around the world. It is simply NOT acceptable to spend tens of billions of dollars to increase Big Pharma’s profits under the guise of “sustainable financing” for “geographically diversified local production” to ensure “equitable access to pandemic related products” to combat “pathogens with pandemic potential.”

Hallucinogens the latest fad

 Hallucinogens; The latest fad.

the latest: Curing anorexia.

psychologically this is a way to cope when the environment is oppressive: an obessive compulsive behavior because by your diet you can at least control one thing in your life (see how both Sisi and Princess Diana's anorexia started because of the oppression not of their marriages alone but the court life pressures on them).

I posted this answer:

I always suspect these studies because they are done

to prove the hallucinogen works.

They also have selected participants:

For example, devout Christians would not take

hallucinogens, but might enter into a study of faith

healing for depression etc.

(for which there are a lot of anecdotes that it works).

So where are these studies?

Ironically, the advocates often cite AmerIndian healing

ceremonies, but ignore the ceremonies are about

communal prayer for the person.

And magic mushrooms don't make you hallucinate

like LSD but merely give you a mild high that makes

you feel like you are part of the entire world. For people

with existential loneliness, this might indeed help them,

but without helping them connect with their family and

society, other problems will result.

Mother Katherine Drexal, a nun who pioneered schools

for minorities, once participated and noted that

the mushroom gave her the same feeling as she

got in deep prayer after taking the Eucharist.

This needs to be examined but probably won't be. 

or as one commenter noted:

Golden Rule an hour ago

It the new "marijuana"; the recreational drug lobby has move on after their last victory.

inoculating smallpox

A film review noted Marie Antoinette had received variolation as a child so was not ar risk when Louis 15 died of that disease. Yet 2 of her sisters were so scarred that they were exiled to convents.

Something for me to .ook up at a later date since right now I am reading about epidemics in Heian Japan described in fictional storied

Cleaning up the junk food epidemic

TB in AmerIndian communities

 We saw TB in Africa, but it was still a major problem when I worked in the IHS. Mainly from poverty. this is a Canadian film 

Of course it spreads via close contact. When you read about deaths in boarding schools for the indigenous remember some are from TB.

TB in Georgia High school: checking if he spread it

from LegalInsurrection:

In a recent report on the respiratory disease tuberculosis (i.e., “TB”), an incident involving an illegal Chinese immigrant

with a rare form of tuberculosis sparked concern and legal action in Louisiana. Now approximately 200 students and staff members at a Georgia high school have undergone tuberculosis testing after a possible exposure on campus.

the article then quotes a local public health doc who says that TB is treatable, so hopefully it is not a case of drug resistant TB.

when I adopted my kids, my oldest had a chest x ray to check if he had TB  to be cleared for a visa. The youngest was exempt, because his tb skin test was weakly positive because he got a BCG immunization. However, years later when applying for a job at a nursing home, he was retested and the test was strongly positive. Chest X ray was negative so he was given a course of INH to lower the chance of relapse.

When I got back from Africa, my test was strongly positive, and my chest x ray was negative, and so I too had to take INH for a year. 

And our granddaughter Ruby tested positive here in the Philippines and it had to be verified she was on INH before she could get a visa to study in the USA. 

Heck, I was required to get a Chest X ray to get a long term visa for the Philippines too. So it's not just the USA, but good medical practice...

How serious could cases of undiagnosed Tuberculosis be?

in 1970, a worker in the US congress cafeteria was found to have open TB,

  NYTIMES

:WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) —Arrangements were made to day to test members of Con gress and about 14,000 Capitol employes for tuberculosis. The action was taken after health officials learned that two Senate restaurant workers died of TB in recent months and that four other active cases of the contagious disease had been found in the Capitol complex.

until HIV hit, few US doctors had seen cases of TB. 

I worked for the US PHS, and American Indians had a high risk because of poverty/crowded living conditions. So there was a debate if we should treat everyone with a positive TB test: The risk of hepatitis had to be weighed against the risk of TB relapse. We finally compromised: Treated the younger under 30s, but later we started treating those with diabetes, which also lowered their resistance to TB.

one of the problems with TB is that like other germs it is becoming resistant to medications: people inadequatly treated, people with HIV or poor immune systems who don't clear the germ with treatment etc..

And then there is the problem of seeing mild cases in people with TB scars: Often all you see is a subtle thickening of the cavity scar. I once picked up a case of this in Mescalero, and we transferred the lady for diagnostic bronchoscopy. Initial tests were negative, but the culture did grow multi drug resistant TB.

so we had to put her on a complicated regime. Luckily we were IHS so we arranged for a public health nurse to administer the medicines twice a week. Alas, after six months, the patient developed signs of liver toxicity, either from the drugs or because of alcohol/illicit drug ingestion (she was a known alcoholic but had been sober for a few years when all this happened), but before we could arrange a recheck to see if she still needed the drug, she disappeared.

Finally, one more TB story: Tuberculosis killed several of our relatives including Lolo's father. When he started medical school he was found to have active tuberculosis. Luckily for him, streptomycin had been found to cure TB, and he got some from the local Americans (Legally because he was a veteran, or on the black market? I never asked) and his TB was cured. The bad news? Streptomycin is toxic to hearing, and he had to wear hearing aids.

some educational lectures here: First the history of TB, the second on treatment.

recovery from a stroke: Fetterman on Joe Rogan

Failing to scan for TB will cause an upsurge in cases

 Via Instapundit:

Yahoonews:

A student sick with tuberculosis could have exposed hundreds at a Georgia high school, amid an alarming global spread of the disease. Local public health officials identified the infected student at Walton High School, in Marietta, the Cobb County School District told USA TODAY in an email. The student with the bacterial disease had contact with about 200 students and faculty, prompting public health officials in Cobb and Douglas counties to conduct tuberculin skin tests Tuesday, according to Valerie Crow, a spokesperson for the local public health department, said.

article notices an upsurge since Covid hit: But doesn't ask two questions: How much is from immune supression from covid or covid vaccine, and how many cases are in migrants who never were screened for TB (required for immigrants).

this article notes that a lot of the upsurge is from unscreened migrants.

this PLOS article is about TB in various migrant populations.

the elderly in need

turbo cancers?