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I love Battletoads, but it's so hard.

Notice they're not talking about evolution anymore, because they've handily lost that battle. The argument never changes, they just shift the context so they can keep making it

Unless you're half-assing drug policy, then it's great

People seeking to score political points by posting news articles hate getting their posts removed for editorializing the headline. Did you editorialize the headline?

I did read that...it looks like it killed a bunch of seals, but cows seem to barely be affected. Well I hope they're including this strain in this year's flu vaccine ..

Your cat is the one getting roasted, my man.

For those who are only reading the headline, this is mostly about the disastrous lead exposures happening in other (mostly lower-income) countries, and about how the lack of regulations/quality controls in those countries contributed to a situation where two imported cinnamon products in the US contained lead and were recalled.

"So much lead in American food" consists of 2 recalled products, whereas the kids in Ecuador eating this same stuff daily don't warrant a headline, I suppose

That warning label on the front should be scary enough without even having to refer to the SDS. Seems like this may cause lung damage, eye damage, and cancer over time

It's important to recognize this virus is not new and has been circulating the world while being studied for years. Over the past 20 years, less than 900 cases have been identified in humans worldwide, mostly in southeast Asia, and with rare exception it was someone who caught it from an animal but who didn't transmit it to other humans.

While there's always a chance H5N1 could mutate to become more transmissible between humans, right now there's no reason to think that. If it did, god help us. But it hasn't. Yet.

That appears to be the Australian Capital Territory. Being from the US, I'm going to assume Canberra has a separate jurisdiction from surrounding states, like Washington DC

Caveat here that I'm neither a doctor nor a psychopharmacologist, but I am a psychotherapist with many years of inpatient experience on treatment teams with psychiatrists. Antipsychotics seem to most often be used as an adjunct treatment with a mood stabilizer when someone is experiencing severe mania or severe depression with psychosis. When someone's symptoms are too severe, a mood stabilizer alone may either take much longer (like weeks) to stabilize someone, or it won't stabilize them at all.

After stabilizing their most acute symptoms, we would always work with our patients to define a short term goal to work with their outpatient doc in tapering off the antipsychotic while continuing with a maintenance dose of mood stabilizer, because the goal should always be to be on as little medication as possible while maintaining stability.

The most common antipsychotic prescribed for bipolar is zyprexa, aka olanzipine, but the evidence seems to show that it's no more efficacious than lithium or depakote as far as its usage as a maintenance med, but it comes with a serious risk of weight gain, metabolic syndromes, and EPS, where the side effect profiles for the mood stabilizers are much more tolerable on average. Where olanzipine shines though is in treating that acute phase of severe mania or depression in the short term.

Everyone is different and everyone's body responds differently to different meds, but personally if I had severe bipolar disorder, I would try my damnedest to avoid relying on an antipsychotic as a maintenance med.