"Der frühere Verfassungsgerichtspräsident Papier stellt eine schleichende Entmündigung der Bürger fest – und eine fatale „Meinungseinhegung“ hierzulande."
@welt
#Leseempfehlung!
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus69d8ac5e246b3860d5021b77/hans-juergen-papier-buergern-dieses-landes-wird-nahegelegt-was-sie-unter-unserer-demokratie-zu-verstehen-haben.html
Portugal stelle ich mal unkommentiert zur Diskussion.
Looks like only the American side are experienced in negotiations
Warum gibt es aktuell so viele Posts zur Übersetzungsfunktion auf X. Die gibt es doch schon länger, oder?
Wann kommt die Übergewinnsteuer für garantierte Einspeisevergütungen und sogar für Geisterstromerstattung der Wind- und Solaranlagen-Millionäre und -Milliardäre?
Original Article: Multifaceted Strategies for Hypertension Control in Low-Income Patients (IMPACTS-BP trial) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2504068
Editorial: Systems-Based Success for Hypertension https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2518341
#Cardiology
Ein Reisereporter? Ein Dozent? Wen eine Psychologin und ein Innenarchitekt in diesen Räumen vermuten. Raten Sie mit! https://www.nzz.ch/folio/wer-wohnt-in-diesen-raeumen-das-wohnquiz-ld.1919879?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041169c59041edbcfe2d68641128
🐒🐒- Pocken are back!🥳
Generell erholen sich die meisten
Erkrankten von selbst!
➡️ Impfkommission rät zur zweimaligen Impfung! 🤡
Das Kunsthaus Zürich präsentiert die Dauerleihgabe der Stiftung Bührle in einer dicht gedrängten Übersichtsschau. Die Werke sind nicht einmal angeschrieben. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/kunst_architektur/die-sammlung-buehrle-wird-lieblos-wie-ein-lagerbestand-gezeigt-ld.1932660?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041169d7cd010d17673d1d55e503
Vor der morgigen Ungarn-Wahl haben die Abgeordneten Jim Jordan (Vorsitzender House Judiciary Committee) + Chris Smith (Co-Vorsitzender Human Rights Commission) der EU-Kommissarin Henna Virkkunen in einem Brief dringend geraten, sich nicht einzumischen:
Die EU-Kommission missbrauche den Digital Service Act (DSA) und „Rapid Response Systems“, um Plattformen weltweit zu zwingen, vor Wahlen politisch unliebsame (meist konservative/pro-Regierungs-)Inhalte zu zensieren, zu entfernen oder herabzustufen – mit globalen Auswirkungen auf die Freie Rede von US-Amerikanern, die eigentlich durch das 1. Amendment geschützt sein sollten
Freie Rede und Demokratie seien Kern der transatlantischen Beziehung – die EU solle aufhören, diese Grundsätze zu untergraben. Sie kündigen weitere Untersuchungen und mögliche gesetzgeberische Schritte an.
Nur um es für weitere Diskussionen verwenden zu können ...
Ein schönes Wochenende allen hier!
This fellow made a big public show of leaving the @NIH over "academic freedom" and "censorship." A year later, he is working for Big Pharma. I wonder how much academic freedom is allowed at AstraZenica?
It is his right to do so, of course. But a few apologies are owed. Perhaps @nytimes could do a follow-up story. @alicegcallahan
Most moral army in the world ...
🚨🇺🇸🇪🇸 Trump: "We're gonna cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain."
Wow. They’re migrating in the millions!
The leftist Spain government has promised 500k+ migrants the right to vote, to they’re coming all of Africa!!
Soon, Spain will not be recognizable, forever.
Interesting data for those Canadians who laud Canada’s universal healthcare system and fear monger about adopting “US-styled healthcare”
Where would you rather suffer a heart attack?
Jury Trials Are Vital to the Constitutional Order https://brownstone.org/articles/jury-trials-are-vital-to-the-constitutional-order/ via @brownstoneinst
“Emergency doc” Christian thinks being a chiropractor disqualifies someone from demanding that people ask crucial and relevant questions about published research.
And people wonder why doctors are increasingly regarded as arrogant and high-handed.
Don’t be like Christian.
Der Buckelwal Timmy kann mit unserem kollektiven Mitgefühl rechnen. So viel Gefühl bringen wir für menschliche Krisenopfer selten auf – das ist kein Zufall. https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/alle-weinen-um-den-wal-timmy-doch-eigentlich-weinen-wir-dabei-um-uns-selbst-ld.1932808?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041169d7cd010d17673d1d55e502
America is the best place to have a life threatening emergency like a heart attack. You will get the best medical science has to offer anywhere on the planet. Where the system falls short is in chronic, non-life-threatening conditions, especially the slow decline of aging, and benign symptoms that are best obseved over time. These get million dollar workups and treatments that are often unnecessary which raise costs for everyone.
2030 😂 ... 🤡s ... Reiche, Bilderberger 🤡s ... und wir können uns so langsam die verkaufte "Geschichte" bis zum heutigen Tag immer besser vorstellen 🤢
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“Picture this, picture this.. God so loved the world He sent His Son to die for it.”
I have been briefed on an incident that occurred at Grand Central Station this morning. Reports indicate a man slashed three people on the platform with a machete. Officers shot the man when he did not drop the machete. He has since been pronounced dead.
I’m grateful to the NYPD for their quick response and for preventing additional violence. The three victims were taken to the hospital and are thankfully in stable condition. The NYPD is conducting an internal investigation and will release body-worn camera footage, as it does in all incidents involving the discharge of an officer's firearm.
Accorate is a Great Leader
Seine Kritiker gingen hart ins Gericht mit ihm, seine Verehrer bezahlten Höchstpreise für seine delikaten Werke. Der französische Maler Gustave Moreau verursachte der Kunstgeschichtsschreibung Kopfzerbrechen. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/kunst_architektur/er-malte-traumwelten-zwischen-eros-und-tod-vor-200-jahren-erblickte-der-symbolist-gustave-moreau-das-licht-der-welt-ld.1932662?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041169d7cd010d17673d1d55e501
What a Disgusting the UK is
R to @anish_koka: Interactive maps: https://anishkoka.github.io/pci-access-maps/
Methods-Limitations-Datasources : https://anishkoka.github.io/pci-access-maps/methods.html
R to @anish_koka: This isn't just remote northern communities.
Eleven of Canada's densest census divisions — including Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke, and Nanaimo, totaling 1.3M people — exceed 90 minute prehospital time.
A STEMI patient in Trois-Rivières with universal insurance is worse off than an uninsured patient in rural Nevada within the critical 90minute threshold from Renown Regional.
R to @anish_koka: A country that achieves timely emergency cardiac access for 98% of 335 million people has not failed its citizens.
A country that gives 100% of its citizens an insurance card but leaves about a fifth of its population beyond a critical window of care has.
Insurance is not access. Data >> narrative.
R to @anish_koka: And it's not because Canada is vast. Canada's 37M people live almost entirely within 125 miles of the U.S. border. The problem isn't geography — it's infrastructure insufficiency.
41 PCI centers for 37 million people.
The U.S. has 1,248 for 335 million.
R to @anish_koka: Now Canada.
Every healthcare ranking that puts the U.S. last holds up Canada as a model. The Commonwealth Fund treats universal insurance as the primary measure of access. Canada scores well almost by definition.
But insurance coverage and geographic access to care are not the same thing.
R to @anish_koka: The comparison holds no matter how you measure it:
Estimated drive time: U.S. 2.0% beyond 90 min vs. Canada 18.8% → ~10× worse per capita
Nallamothu prehospital time: U.S. 8.4% vs. Canada 24.5% → ~3× worse per capita
This is not within the margin of methodological uncertainty. It's a large, consistent, robust disparity.
R to @anish_koka: Who are the 2%?
4.7M live at ~10 people/sq mi — deep rural. The right answer there isn't a cath lab staffed 24/7 for 10 cases a year. It's pharmacoinvasive strategy.
1.6M are the real policy target — moderate-density communities that could sustain a PCI program but don't have one yet.
108K are geographic anomalies. Hawaii. The Florida Keys. Islands and mountains.
R to @anish_koka: 2% is not a broken system. It is the irreducible geographic residual of a continental nation. No country at this scale eliminates it.
And we've spent tens of billions on Critical Access Hospitals trying to push that number lower — with essentially zero improvement since 2000. Could the resources have been better spent on rural air transport and primary care?
R to @anish_koka: Using population-weighted census tract centroids and 1,248 PCI hospitals identified from Medicare billing (not self-report):
79% of Americans live within 30 min drive time of a cath lab
19% within 30–90 min
Just 2% — 6.4M people — beyond 90 min
As a sensitivity check, the Nallamothu prehospital formula (adding dispatch, round-trip factor, scene time) puts 91.6% within 90 min - still impressive https://anishkoka.github.io/pci-access-maps/pci_bivariate_map-3.html
R to @anish_koka: I analyzed 84,000 U.S census tracts to measure how many Americans can actually reach a hospital that can open a blocked artery during a heart attack within the guideline window: 98% can.
And the comparison to Canada — the country we're told to emulate — is devastating.
R to @anish_koka: PCI — threading a catheter to open a blocked coronary artery — is the gold-standard treatment for the most dangerous heart attacks. Guidelines give you 90 minutes from first medical contact to balloon. Every minute of delay = dead heart muscle.