Yes. I can write a script for any fda approved substance (and for a DEA controlled substance by appending my DEA number to the Rx). Whether your insurance decides to pay for it is another thing entirely. Source: am physician

Iodine tabs for a radiation accident are literally just to protect your thyroid which preferentially accumulates well over 99% of ingested iodine and is stored in colloid form within the thyroid. I-131 is a common component of both fallout and nuclear reactor waste so by loading up the thyroid preemptively you absorb far less of the radioactive isotope. Doesnâ(TM)t really do fuck all for other organs. Source: am physician

Earth-moon L2 is only 61,000km from the lunar surface, this cube satâ(TM)s orbit will reach 70k from the lunar surface.

Jesus fucking Christ youâ(TM)re so ignorant I donâ(TM)t know where to start. The only reason the FDA approved the new vaccines as quickly as they did was that the trials enrolled more than ten times the usual number of subjects allowing much more robust data to be produced much faster than ever before. The technology involved has been around for 10 years. The lipid carrier is degraded within 24 hours of injection and the mRNA within a few days. Since you mentioned the HBV vaccine, are you aware that that is a recombinant protein produced in yeast that only targets a specific protein (the surface antigen) rather than some of the other targets natural infection produces antibodies for? The reason being that the core and e proteins do fuck all to prevent infection. So targeting the protein used by the virus to enter the cell is more efficient than whole virus lysate.

The exact role vitamin D plays in mediating inflammatory cytokines such as those seen in severe covid is poorly understood, whereas the effectiveness of vaccination in preventing infection and reducing the risk of severe infection is VERY well understood.

Because those don't fucking prevent covid. Source: am physician

Better find a new planet to live on then, you get about 3 mSv/year from background radiation on average at the surface of the earth.

Worldwide yes. Helicobacter pylori is the most common cause of peptic ulcers, especially outside the USA. The guys who proved this by infecting themselves with it and getting ulcers won the Nobel prize. In the US, gastric ulcers are also frequently caused by NSAID use such as aspirin (even baby aspirin!) or ibuprofen.

And I'm moderately baffled by a reported need for 3d printing to treat stomach ulcers "less invasively" - standard of care is an endoscopy to diagnose the ulcer (sometimes ulcers can be diagnosed by various imaging modalities, but this is much less sensitive), and if the ulcer needs treatment (visible blood vessel, visible bleeding, or a large adherent clot) you can do it then and there - typically an epinephine injection to slow active bleeding, and then either a clip which will close the ulcer and fall off and pass on its own in a few weeks, or you can apply a heat probe for coagulative coaptation of the blood vessel causing the bleeding. In either case, for the vast majority of ulcers, these treatments will stop the bleeding at the end of the procedure, typically 5-15 minutes. The stomach mucosa will then heal on its own, with the help of proton-pump inhibitors like prilosec. Not sure how this process is less invasive as it also requires endoscopic placement, or more effective as it would take much longer. I guess it could be helpful in non healing ulcers due to poor blood flow from severe vascular disease or heart failure, although I doubt the printed cells will do too well without a good blood supply.

The summary claims "Accurate modeling of subatomic particles" in the title, then goes on to state "that simulates subatomic particles and the formation of matter using classical physics" which would seem completely wrong on its face, as one would need to use quantum mechanics, not classical physics at that scale.

Yeah LYMErix has kind of become a cautionary tale through the industry these days. Will be interesting to see what the antivaxxers have to say when the COVID vaccine comes out, and by interesting, I mean looking forward to a culling of the herd.

Yeah, LYMErix at least had efficacy data. It wasn't 100% effective but it was decent (around 75% IIRC). Basically the antivaxxers came out hard against it and it was withdrawn. I actually got the full series, although there are absolutely zero studies for long term effectiveness, at this point I assume I have no protection.

The original paper is referring to Takotsubo's Cardiomyopathy, which is a very real condition brought about by high levels of stress, including emotional. I've rarely heard it described as "mimicking a heart attack," but its much more similar to the after effects of a heart attack in that there is a decreased ejection fraction (percentage of blood ejected from the left ventricle, normally in the 55-65% range, can drop to the 20s in severe presentations, which would be considered severe heart failure). I've seen and treated a few cases of this myself. I'm not especially surprised there are more cases cropping up with the current pandemic.

Putting in a coronary stent isn't quite surgery, it's a medical procedure, performed by cardiologists, not cardiac surgeons.

Wouldn't say commonly, there are many other options for most common infections besides streptomycin, like cephalosporins, aztreonam, or a number of non-beta lactam antibiotics. Streptomycin is used (in the US) for rare stuff like tularemia and plague (Y. pestis). Source: I am a physician