Currently on partial medical leave and Associate professor, Dept of Earth, Energy, and Environment, University of Calgary; co-director Electricity Centre; energy/mid-transition/carbon/innovation policy + bikes.
maybe they need a catchy slogan: trash the tubes?
Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦Sharing in case someone needs to see this - if you are a fallopian tube having person and do not want to have any more children and are having any kind of abdominal surgeries seriously consider getting them removed. its wild how this recent this knowledge is.
Sharing in case someone needs to see this - if you are a fallopian tube having person and do not want to have any more children and are having any kind of abdominal surgeries seriously consider getting them removed. its wild how this recent this knowledge is.
Morgan ThompsonWoah, this is huge news: most ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes, which can be removed (if patient desires) during other abdominal surgeries. Ovarian cancer has vague symptoms and often isn’t diagnosed until late stage with low survival rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...
Turns out the oil company sponsored breast biopsy room in Calgary can in fact be topped in WTF level
Robyn SwirlingJust went for a mammogram, the changing rooms are all named (weird enough already) for various notable women. Oprah, Sonia Sotomayor, Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, and…
I guess there is a direct parallel between climate delay and vaccine delay (ie both are just hte new soft form of denial/anti that have effectively the same outcome in many cases)
Amy Maxmen, PhDA clip of Dr. Oz's wife is going around: She says she delayed vaccines required for school. And Trump is pressing HHS to cut the # of recommended vaccines. Both say they're not antivax. But delays are putting kids in the hospital. Read what doctors say: kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
anyway, just passing the time while I wait another week (makes 4+ total) for the CT scan my oncologist ordered to be done in less than 2wks * (*its probably fine - the step needed to rule things out with some symptoms, but yeah we have a wait time issue)
Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦Again, I'm not expert, but this seems like more about creating room for these dodgy medical service companies that do over testing like full body MRI. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/w...
off topic but it never ceases to amaze me that there is a deep water sea port all the way in Stockton
Sean McKnightIf the Jones Act was never adopted, urbanization would not have been limited to deep water seaports. River ports would have grown at similar rate after 1920. St. Louis would be one of the biggest cities in the world. West Virginia would have remained a major manufacturing hub.
Again, I'm not expert, but this seems like more about creating room for these dodgy medical service companies that do over testing like full body MRI. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/w...
The New Status Symbol Is a Full-Body M.R.I. (Gift Article)Companies like the celebrity-endorsed Prenuvo claim they can revolutionize preventive health care. Experts warn this might not be the right approach.www.nytimes.comSara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦The thing I don’t get about this is you could already private pay for faster MRI or CT. You just needed a dr referral. And for cancer diagnosis - 2 years ago I had to wait over a month for a biopsy to confirm my cancer because of capacity issues 🙃 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
The thing I don’t get about this is you could already private pay for faster MRI or CT. You just needed a dr referral. And for cancer diagnosis - 2 years ago I had to wait over a month for a biopsy to confirm my cancer because of capacity issues 🙃 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Alberta to start allowing some privately paid medical tests this weekBeginning Friday, Albertans who uncover a new cancer diagnosis will be reimbursed for the cost of their test but won’t see their costs covered if they discover a different illnesswww.theglobeandmail.comProud wife post: Christoph's biophoton research written up in this Nature news article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
All living things emit a faint glow. Could this light be useful?Ultra-weak ‘biophotons’ might be used to diagnose disease, or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells.www.nature.comMy not hot take on all of this is it seems a lot of the problems in the world come from people having no ability for empathy for others unless they experience it directly themselves.
The Associated PressAP Exclusive: In a Ukrainian bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains her shift on Russia’s war and wants to admit that she fell for some falsehoods of her own.
Things are not fine
Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦Welp they cancelled them all and instead the teams will have penalty shootouts inside 🙃 (Glad they are prioritizing safety. Pissed that my kids’ sports are being taken away from them because adults can’t do the right thing when it comes to acting on climate).
Welp they cancelled them all and instead the teams will have penalty shootouts inside 🙃 (Glad they are prioritizing safety. Pissed that my kids’ sports are being taken away from them because adults can’t do the right thing when it comes to acting on climate).
Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦New worry unlocked - air quality being bad enough for the end of season tournament that its really not a good idea for kids to being playing 90 min of soccer but not bad enough that the games are cancelled (only happens for 7+, at 6 games go forward).