| Brainstorm | New from StatNews: ProMED, an early warning system on disease outbreaks, appears near collapse: The early warning disease network that alerted the world to the original SARS outbreak and the start of the Covid-19 pandemic appears to be in peril. A number of the… → https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/03/promed-early-warning-system-on-disease-outbreaks-appears-near-collapse/ | 00:48 |
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| LjL | It accused unnamed parties of using ProMED data without permission, saying that the ISID had stopped posting to Twitter and closed off its RSS feed permanently “to stop unauthorized data scraping.” And it said it was putting the organization’s invaluable archive behind a paywall, allowing people without subscriptions to search only for posts that had gone up in the previous 30 days. | 01:43 |
| LjL | The letter was signed “the ProMED team” — a fact that riled the moderators, who said they were given no prior warning that the change was coming. | 01:43 |
| LjL | https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/03/promed-early-warning-system-on-disease-outbreaks-appears-near-collapse/ | 01:43 |
| LjL | de-facto, ↑ | 01:43 |
| LjL | this "scraping" excuse... suddenly the whole internet is using it | 01:46 |
| LjL | i'm "scraping" because i use your damned RSS feeds?! | 01:46 |
| LjL | this is not the internet i had, and wanted | 01:46 |
| LjL | meanwhile Google is creating technical measures to make sure it can't be | 01:47 |
| de-facto | discard of them. if they dont want to be scraped forget about them | 01:49 |
| de-facto | same for twitter, if Elon wants it to be a closed platform he decides to make it irrelevant, why care about any of those? | 01:52 |
| LjL | Test | 02:01 |
| LjL | de-facto, that's a blunt statement to make that shows you haven't read what the issue is | 02:01 |
| LjL | "discard them" | 02:01 |
| LjL | these are people working for free | 02:02 |
| LjL | for a company that now wants to be paid | 02:02 |
| LjL | THESE PEOPLE are still the ones you want to HEAR FROM when there's a fucking OUTBREAK | 02:02 |
| LjL | but your thinking works like chain production | 02:02 |
| LjL | gee, i don't say anything here for ages, i say one thing, i end up angrier than before saying it | 02:03 |
| LjL | maybe it's time to close shop | 02:03 |
| LjL | meanwhile, Matrix doesn't get the stuff from IRC anymore | 02:03 |
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| Brainstorm | New from EMA: What's new: Medicine: Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Fluad Tetra, influenza vaccine (surface antigen, inactivated, adjuvanted), Influenza, Human, Date of authorisation: 20/05/2020, Revision: 7, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/fluad-tetra | 09:16 |
| Brainstorm | New from ProPublica: EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime: by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-approved-chevron-fuel-ingredient-cancer-risk-plastics-biofuel | 11:18 |
| Brainstorm | New from PubMed: Best Practices in assessing Cardiac Protein O-GlcNAcylation by immunoblot: The modification of serine and threonine amino acids of proteins by O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) regulates the activity, stability, function, and subcellular localization of proteins. Dysregulation of O-GlcNAc homeostasis is well [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37539459/ | 12:43 |
| Brainstorm | New from BMJ: Government expands private run diagnostic centres to tackle NHS waiting lists: An extra 13 community diagnostic centres are to join the existing 114 already in operation around England as part of a new drive to boost the use of the independent sector to reduce NHS waiting lists.The move has been cautiously [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1813.short | 15:46 |
| Brainstorm | New from ECDC: Communicable disease threats report, 30 July - 5 August 2023, week 31: This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 30 July - 5 August 2023 and includes updates on avian influenza, botulism, echovirus, West [... want %more?] → https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/communicable-disease-threats-report-30-july-5-august-2023-week-31 | 16:43 |
| Brainstorm | New from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): The Safety and Tolerability of MY-586 COVID-19 Neutralizing Antibody Nasal Spray in Healthy Subjects → http://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05977101 | 17:02 |
| Brainstorm | New from StatNews: Pandemic slowed cancer diagnoses, but late-stage cancers came back with a vengeance: A new study emphasizes how, because of disruptions in care during the pandemic, patients were more likely to get diagnosed with deadly metastatic disease — across nearly all cancer types. → https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/04/pandemic-cancer-diagnoses-late-stage/ | 18:09 |
| Brainstorm | New from Contagion Live: Wastewater Accurately Tracks COVID-19 Numbers: A new study confirms this form of surveillance to collect metrics for SARS-CoV-2 to understand infection prevalence on a bigger scale. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/wastewater-accurately-tracks-covid-19-numbers | 18:46 |
| Brainstorm | New from The Atlantic: Living in Phoenix Makes Perfect Sense: In Phoenix, a high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit now somehow counts as a respite. On Monday, America’s hottest major city ended its ominous streak of 31 straight days in which temperatures crested past 110. The [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/08/phoenix-record-excessive-heat-wave-streak/674924/ | 18:56 |
| Brainstorm | New from Contagion Live: GSK Claims Patent Infringement in Suit Against Pfizer's RSV Vaccine: The lawsuit comes as the RSV market is likely to get more crowded, with a pending approval for Pfizer's pediatric indication later this month and a BLA submission from Moderna [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/gsk-claims-patent-infringement-in-suit-against-pfizer-s-rsv-vaccine | 21:51 |
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