How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy – Kathleen McAuliffe – The Atlantic.
What research says about cats: they’re selfish, unfeeling, environmentally harmful creatures – Vox.
Links presented as a public service. Unless you live under a rock you are probably aware of the Vox article. The first link is The Atlantic article documenting some of the science behind the anti-cat movement.
Fish Oil Slows Cognitive Decline, With Caveats.
Disclosures
Treat or nasty trick? Denver police warn of pot-tainted candy | Reuters.
Presented without further comment because it’s too early in the day for one of my rants.
CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people. Death certificate data and weekly influenza virus surveillance information was used to estimate how many flu-related deaths occurred among people whose underlying cause of death was listed as respiratory or circulatory disease on their death certificate.
Just a simple reminder that in any year the flu virus will kill more people than the ebola virus.
Stay calm people. And get a flu shot.
The analyses showed alcohol was involved in 18.5% of OPR and 27.2% of benzodiazepine drug abuse-related ED visits and 22.1% of OPR and 21.4% of benzodiazepine drug-related deaths. These findings indicate that alcohol plays a significant role in OPR and benzodiazepine abuse. Interventions to reduce the abuse of alcohol and these drugs alone and in combination are needed.
JAMA Network | JAMA | The 2014 Ebola Outbreak.
The case fatality rate currently stands at 53% in this current outbreak.
Five Lessons From the Niacin Failure.
Niacin With Statins? No Dice..
HPS2-THRIVE: As Niacin Fails, HDL’s Role Is Debated Anew.
Enjoy these articles. Taking niacin? Well…
Avoid couchlock! Four things to know about cannabis pharmacology | The Poison Review.
Recently, the New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd got into trouble in Denver when she overdosed on a cannabis candy bar and experienced 8 hours of paranoia and couchlock.
Toxicology Rounds: Four Things Maureen Dowd Should Have Know… : Emergency Medicine News.
THC dosing of edible marijuana in Colorado is insane. Richard Zane, MD, the chairman of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, said on the National Public Radio talk show On Point that the amount of THC in some marijuana edibles is completely irrational. The usual recommended moderate starting dose is approximately 10 mg THC, and some cookies can contain six doses and some lollipops as many as 10. Dr. Zane said the university’s ED sees out-of-state marijuana tourists every day who present with bad reactions to THC, such as agitation, unremitting violent vomiting, hallucinations, and psychosis.
And finally, a link to Maureen Dowd’s column.
Don’t Harsh Our Mellow, Dude – NYTimes.com.
In March, a 19-year-old Wyoming college student jumped off a Denver hotel balcony after eating a pot cookie with 65 milligrams of THC. In April, a Denver man ate pot-infused Karma Kandy and began talking like it was the end of the world, scaring his wife and three kids. Then he retrieved a handgun from a safe and killed his wife while she was on the phone with an emergency dispatcher.
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