Science news of the day thread.

[Brian Peacock]

Use the 'yt' tag with the video id (the bit after 'v=' and before any '?' or '&').

[macdoc]

Well set it up for us. Rather someone else fished....

[Brian Peacock]

Well set it up for us. Rather someone else fished....

It's already set up. Has been for years.

You can type the 'yt' tag by hand or use the dedicated button in the reply window.

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[macdoc]

Funny still don't see a video

[macdoc]

Damn ....everyones First Aid kit needs tthi

Scientists Develop Spray-On Powder That Instantly Seals Life-Threatening Wounds

KAIST scientists have created a fast-acting, stable powder hemostat that stops bleeding in one second and could significantly improve survival in combat and emergency medicine.

BY KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYJANUARY 13, 202610 COMMENTS6 MINS READ

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-dev ... ng-wounds/

[Brian Peacock]

Funny still don't see a video

May need to refresh cache: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30228&p=1983596#p1983596

[L'Emmerdeur]

US Health Secretary Kennedy's baseless blithering about acetaminophen/paracetamol causing autism (he set out to discover the cause in six months and succeeded!) was already contradicted by several studies when he made the claim. A new study confirms what was already known. Meanwhile, as far as I know the jug-eared croaker hasn't bothered to mention the actual danger associated with acetaminophen use. This item is about testing a possible antidote; it's already used in cases of ethylene glycol and methanol poisoning.

'The real danger of Tylenol has nothing to do with autism'

Social media and news feeds are filled with unverified claims about a possible connection between acetaminophen and autism in children. But medical experts say the far more serious and well-documented concern is something else entirely: overdose from the widely used pain and fever medication.

Acetaminophen poisoning is one of the leading causes of hospitalization and death related to non-prescription drugs in the United States, according to Kennon Heard, MD, PhD, a professor in the CU Anschutz Department of Emergency Medicine and the department's section chief of medical toxicology.

Each year, an estimated 56,000 people visit emergency departments because of acetaminophen poisoning, and about 2,600 are hospitalized. The drug is responsible for nearly half of all acute liver failure cases in the U.S. and roughly 20% of liver transplants nationwide.

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The current clinical trial led by Heard and his colleagues is focused on fomepizole, a drug approved to treat poisoning from ethylene glycol and methanol, substances commonly found in antifreeze. Exposure can occur accidentally, and in some cases people with alcohol use disorder have consumed antifreeze as a substitute for alcohol.

Fomepizole works by blocking enzymes known as alcohol dehydrogenase, stopping the body from converting ethylene glycol and methanol into toxic byproducts.

Heard says interest in using fomepizole for acetaminophen overdose dates back to the 1990s, when he was training in medical toxicology. Evidence came from individual patient case reports and animal studies, particularly in severe overdose cases.

More recently, research has shown that doctors are increasingly using fomepizole off-label to treat serious acetaminophen poisoning.