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Why is the new mRNA vaccine unable to modify human DNA?
Roman Zieliński seems to be intentionally misleading you by making an implausible circumstance that is technically possible sound like a likely outcome. This strategy is not unusual among people who ...
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Frequency of drug side effect listed as "unknown"
A GUIDELINE ON SUMMARY OF PRODUCT [pharmaceuticals] CHARACTERISTICS (EUROPEAN COMMISSION, 2009)
In exceptional cases, if a frequency cannot be estimated from the
available data, an additional ...
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Why is the new mRNA vaccine unable to modify human DNA?
To supplement Bryan's answer (although I'm not going to say anything fundamentally different here), according to their proponents, mRNA vaccines are considered the safest genetic vaccines (in this ...
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Why do some medication package inserts suggest talking to a doctor instead of providing advice?
The simplest answer is that the information won't fit on the insert. There are tradeoffs and decisions to be made. Some medications are just "don't take if you're pregnant" or "this is ...
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Can effervescent multivitamin tablets cause teeth problems?
Couldn't find any articles directly looking at effervescent tablets and dental problems, so I took a more broad look and searched for citric acid's effect on teeth.
The combination of citric acid and ...
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Why would ECT be done without anasthesia?
Was ECT done while being awake in 78? What about 2000 and what about now?
Generally speaking no - the ECT done in Requiem for a Dream is the older so-called "unmodified" form where anesthesia and ...
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How does anxiety and stress affect the bowels?
One’s mental state has a major effect on bowel function. In fact, there is a high correlation between IBS and stress.
Given the high levels of anxiety and stress commonly seen in patients with ...
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Does hair gel damage your hair?
There are two main things to consider here:
What kind of hairloss is there?
What is in the product that is applied to the hair?
concerning 1: All humans loose their hair, constantly. That is part ...
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What are the health benefits and risks of "radon therapy"?
Terminology note: I am going on the assumption that by 'rheumatism' you are referring to rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic destructive inflammatory condition
There is not good or sufficient evidence to ...
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How to reduce the side effects of wearing contact lens?
Questions 1-2
Unfortunately, the answer to these depend on the exact brand and line of contacts used. For example, here is a long list of silicon hydrogel lenses, and how long they last. Here is ...
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Was there ever a vaccine candidate that showed negative side effects many months or years after the patient was injected?
Historically, vaccines eg 1955 polio vaccine had side effects due to manufacturing issues allowing live virus to appear in the vaccine in the Cutter company’s vaccine. In 1976, a swine flu vaccine ...
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Why do pseudoephedrine and methamphetamine have such different pharmacological effects despite only a difference in one oxygen molecule?
This question is like saying that a log cabin is almost identical to a skyscraper - they’re just buildings, and many of the parts used in one are also used in the other - they’re just arranged ...
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How bad are covid vaccines?
OK, I'll bite...
I'm assuming you are from the USA, based on your post about sporting people collapsing (note - not dying AFAIK. Not being an American, I don't follow their sports), one of which made ...
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I have my Covid-19 vaccine batch number. How can I know about its side effects?
The VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) is a publicly available USA government searchable database for (as the name suggests) reporting vaccine adverse events. The actual searchable part ...
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Does drinking water more than 10 liters per day has any benefit or side effect?
Drinking the appropriate amount of water is okay, but when it becomes excessive, then it could lead to some dangerous circumstances.
The appropriate amount of water varies according to lifestyle. ...
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Turmeric vs Ibuprofen
Let's look up Ibuprofen up in a reliable source. We can read there that:
Cardiovascular Risk
Increased risk of serious (sometimes fatal) cardiovascular thrombotic events (e.g., MI, stroke). ...
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Does less sleep lead to weight loss?
Actually lack of sleep leads to weight gain and not weight loss.
Losing out on sleep creates a viscous cycle in your body, making you more prone to various factors contributing to weight gain. “The ...
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Why some people experience no side effects from a drug?
Most drugs have wanted (main) and unwanted (side) effects, but neither of them are guaranteed. For example, aspirin may or may not relieve your headache and may or may not upset your stomach.
The ...
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Are generics tested for side effects?
I'm going to assume you're referring to the United States and the FDA generic approval process.
FDA Abbreviated New Drug Application
For Abbreviated New Drug Applications (that they use for generic ...
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Can the milk of a breastfeeding mother taking Ibuprofen make a baby sleepy?
As a general rule of thumb this concern for safe lactating (breast feeding) is of course entirely legitimate:
Nonpharmacological approaches are always first-line treatment, and should also be used to ...
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Does longer oil pulling than recommended 20 minutes bring any benefits?
The study you linked in the comments (Amith et al., 2007) stated that there were 10 subjects and the subjects were to
Swish approximately 8-10 minutes or till you feel a fullness in your mouth.
The ...
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Does ecdysterone supplementation have any deleterious side effects?
The sensationalist press release for a small study does not warrant to conclude that
Ecdysterone supplementation has been shown to have a significant anabolic effect
While some previous studies have ...
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Longterm effects on DNA of aciclovir
Aciclovir is a prodrug, which means that it has to be converted to an active form before having its desired effect.
It is converted to this active form (aciclovir triphosphate) by a
process ...
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Was there ever a vaccine candidate that showed negative side effects many months or years after the patient was injected?
I think the unclarity in this question (and ironically that it's getting upvoted while the answers to it are getting downvoted) is that the question doesn't specify in its numbered premises that the ...
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Was there ever a vaccine candidate that showed negative side effects many months or years after the patient was injected?
Live attenuated varicella vaccines do contain actual varicella zoster virus (Oka strain), which can establish infection in hosts and undergo latency like other herpesviruses including the unattenuated ...
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Why are Drugs.com side-effect incidence rates so different from manufacturer/FDA reports?
The numbers are different because the package insert rates are based on two clinical trials while the information on Drugs.com is determined by Cerner Multum, a commercial drug database.
Adverse ...
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Looking for a comprehensive list of allergies
You may find SNOMED CT useful. As you can see from this screenshot from the UMLS Metathesaurus, SNOMED CT contains many allergies organized into a useful ontological hierarchy:
Here "allergy to ...
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How long do you have to take an SSRI for before PSSD becomes a risk?
This is currently impossible to answer definitely. There is further a difference between 'could become a risk' and 'will likely be a risk'.
Only now are even the warnings about the long established ...
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