Since 2006, type 1 diabetes in Finland has plateaued and then decreased after the authorities’ decision to fortify dietary milk products with cholecalciferol. The role of vitamin D in innate and adaptive immunity is critical. A statistical error in the estimation of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin D was recently discovered; in a correct analysis of the data used by the Institute of Medicine, it was found that 8895 IU/d was needed for 97.5% of individuals to achieve values ≥50 nmol/L. Another study confirmed that 6201 IU/d was needed to achieve 75 nmol/L and 9122 IU/d was needed to reach 100 nmol/L. The largest meta-analysis ever conducted of studies published between 1966 and 2013 showed that 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels <75 nmol/L may be too low for safety and associated with higher all-cause mortality, demolishing the previously presumed U-shape curve of mortality associated with vitamin D levels. Since all-disease mortality is reduced to 1.0 with serum vitamin D levels ≥100 nmol/L, we call public health authorities to consider designating as the RDA at least three-fourths of the levels proposed by the Endocrine Society Expert Committee as safe upper tolerable daily intake doses. This could lead to a recommendation of 1000 IU for children <1 year on enriched formula and 1500 IU for breastfed children older than 6 months, 3000 IU for children >1 year of age, and around 8000 IU for young adults and thereafter. Actions are urgently needed to protect the global population from vitamin D deficiency.

Too little too late, but maybe this will help for drug supplies years from now.

Another reason we shouldn’t be getting health advice from the State or capitalists. The advice always, always follows dollars and violence.

See also: eggs, cigarettes, red meat, salt, petroleum, and dioxins

“Being fat doesn't mean you deserve to die.
Fatness is not a declaration that your life, your safety, and your rights are subsequently voided.

The crux of this image is that if you REALLY cared about your body and staying alive, you'd be thin. But seeing as you're fat, others have permission to forgo the life saving / virus preventing measure of wearing a mask during a pandemic near you. Let me be clear, there is no weight or size in which we (fat people) should be stripped of our rights and safety. Suggesting otherwise is a violent act of fatphobia.

Really consider how dehumanizing this image is and what messages it reinforces about fat rights. Consider how normalizing this messaging impacts the ways we treat fat people, the ways we treat them in workplaces, in doctors offices and on the street. I want you to hear my breath catch in my throat as I am forced into telling you

I DO NOT CARE HOW FAT SOMEONE IS, THEY ARE STILL A HUMAN BEING
THEY STILL DESERVE COMPASSION AND DECENCY
AND THE FACT SOMEONE FELT THIS WAS A HOT TAKE ON "HEALTH" MAKES ME SICK”

“The benefits of social transition must be enjoyed by all members of our community, including those who do not use (or just use) she/he/they pronouns. Non-binary communities also need to embrace body positivity and fat liberatory politics in order to free our population from the idea that to be androgynous you must be skinny In fact the idea that you have to be androgynous in order to be non-binary needs to be deconstructed as it is based on the medicalisation of our gender identities – that to be a specific gender you must have a particular body shape, and to be trans, you must change your body shape to match the ideal body shape for your gender.”

“The current shows of solidarity from medical societies, universities, and their leaders signal their virtues and help spread the message — for any remaining doubters in our halls — that, yes, Black lives matter. Yet, part of me feels like these signals ring hollow. How are we supposed to believe our institutions’ claims to be opposed to racism when we have had to force their hand at every turn?

All of this takes place against the backdrop of a medical education system that is ridden with structures that promulgate bias, especially against Black students. Research has found evidence of gender and racial bias both in the grading of students’ performance in clinical rotations and in the word choices used in written performance evaluations...”

6 months ago, the FDA started investigating tainted metformin when other countries discovered theirs tainted, and after the recall of many manufacturers of two other tainted medications.

They sent notices to 5 companies about NDMA levels being too high.

6 Months later as of this post, only 2 companies have publicly disclosed it.

This is criminal and worth a read.

$99/year, $10 appointments.

some anti-autism crap in here, but a jumping off point for future research about *-morphins.

From 2007. Medical PTSD is not studied or understood.

Carrie Ann Lucas died because United Healthcare didn't want to pay $2k for a life-saving antibiotic. Instead, what turned into her end of life care cost over $1million.

Because they denied an antibiotic that should never have cost so much in the first place.

Candida is has become a major health threat that isnt responding to antifungals. We don’t have many antifungals to choose from either.

it’s hard not to assume some political motivations in the CDC’s sloppy investigation of recent lung diseases likely caused by illicit THC e-cigarettes.

Discussion of the ethics of spraying pesticides across entire communities to reduce mosquito borne diseases in Michigan.

People have good reason to be distrustful, from Agent Orange to Flint’s lead-tainted water.