SAN FRANCISCO — A plant-centric diet in early adulthood was associated with less risk of emphysema in middle age, results of a long-running cohort study indicated. Participants whose diets at enrollment were in the top quintile on the A Priori Diet Quality Score (APDQS) system had 60% lower odds of developing emphysema over 30 years…
Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act was associated with significantly improved cancer survival, particularly among non-Hispanic Blacks and people living in rural areas. (American Cancer Society, Journal of the National Cancer Institute) In the phase III CheckMate-901 trial of untreated unresectable/metastatic urothelial carcinoma, nivolumab (Opdivo) plus ipilimumab (Yervoy) did not improve overall survival compared…
Welcome to Ethics Consult — an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case, and then we provide an expert’s commentary. Last week, you voted on whether it’s fair for a hospital to conduct employee health assessments related to smoking and body…
Quick take: CZ believes that UST’s depegging and massive LUNA inflation could have been avoided had the LFG deployed its reserves when the de-peg was at 5%. According to CZ, the Terra team was very slow and infrequent in communicating with the community during the crisis. He also stated he has mixed feelings about the…
Summary: Terra’s Do Kwon has introduced three amendments to proposal 1623 to fork the chain. The amendments were introduced as the Terra community was still voting on the original proposal. Do Kwon states that the amendments were added to accommodate community feedback. The introduction of amendments during an ongoing vote has triggered some Terra community…
Solana-based NFT marketplace Magic Eden has topped OpenSea in terms of the daily trading volume. The marketplace has reported nearly 275,000 transactions in the last 24 hours. NFT marketplace Magic Eden has topped OpenSea in terms of daily transaction volume. According to crypto market tracker CoinGecko, Magic Eden has reported roughly 275,000 daily NFT transactions, as compared…
The Prysmatic Labs team said the Merge might occur as early as AugustPreston Van Loon shared the news at this week’s Permissionless blockchain conferenceVitalik Buterin made similar comments at the ETH Shanghai SummitMerging on the Ropsten testnet is also set for June 8The Merge transitions Ethereum from a proof-of-work blockchain to a proof-of-stake networkEthereum’s switch…
Litecoin has activated the privacy protocol Mimblewimble.Mimblewimble allows the obfuscation of sender and recipient addresses, as well as transaction amounts.Privacy coins are frowned upon by the governments, so it remains to be seen how they will react.The Litecoin network has officially activated privacy protocol Mimblewimble, the Litecoin Foundation announced on May 20. The privacy feature…
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