Cocaine Drove Sudden Deaths in Study Showing No Level Is ‘Safe’ – Bloomberg.com
There is a link in the Bloomberg article to download the research study.
Does anyone else besides me remember Len Bias?
No “Safe” Level in Cocaine Use
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Tocilizumab (Actemra) – Think RA
Should We Create an Underwriting Services Co-Op?
Abnormal Calcium = Increased Mortality in Kidney Disease
Note this is an observational study and causality should not be assumed.
Abnormal levels of serum calcium are associated with increased mortality in patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease, an observational study found.
A one mg/dL elevation in baseline calcium levels was associated with a multivariable adjusted hazard ratio for mortality of 1.31 (95% CI 1.13 to 1.53, P<0.001), according to Csaba P. Kovesdy, MD, of the Salem, Va., Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and colleagues.
There also was a significant interaction between elevated baseline calcium level and the presence of cardiovascular disease, which raised the hazard ratio to 1.58 (95% CI 1.29 to 1.94, P<0.001), the researchers reported online in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
High Mortality Rate for Iguanas in South FL
Iguanas falling off trees in South Florida – Bay News 9
Iguanas are a lizard with tropical origins and do not have the capability to withstand long bouts of cold weather.
Once the air temperatures drop below about 40-45 degrees they begin to lose muscle control and fall out of trees and other areas.
If it warms up the next day many will survive, but when you have a period of extended cold weather as we have experienced in the last week and beyond the weather proves lethal and decimates the population.
The lizards that have underground burrows are likely to survive but the ones that don’t will have a high mortality rate.
Texting For Health
Texting may lead to improved health care | NewsOK.com
I learned how to text because my children text. There was a time when I thought this form of communications was silly. I was wrong. It’s how you use the technology that matters.
“Did you remember to take your Aricept today?”
Research has shown that up to half of all patients may fail to take their daily medicine properly, with forgetting being a top reason for nonadherence. So, at least in some cases, a text reminder may be all that a patient needs, says Robotham, who has encouraged the use of appropriate texting among pediatricians at Hopkins Children’s.
What Matters? A Thought For The Decade
A Life That Matters
Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.
So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won’t matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived on at the end. It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave. What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught. What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example. What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’re gone. What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident. It’s not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters. It really matters!
Michael Josephson
Watch Those Meds
Predicting Heart Failure
Mortality Impact of Obesity May be Underestimated
So when are all of those liberal build tables out there getting updated?
Obesity may have an even greater impact on mortality than anticipated, according to a new method of adjusting for confounding.
lifeunderwriter.net 
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