Mental health startup graveyard v1.2: 542 dead companies. Seven reasons why these healthcare startups die. When healthcare insurance companies or institutions don't want to pay, it's a big detriment to survival. Also, a subscription model (which I hate) is the more profitable way to go. And never try to replace the human clinician.
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New AI models still reproduce racial and gender stereotypes in medicine. I think these models are trying to tell us something.
This is not bias. This is just fact.Both o3-mini and DeepSeek-R1, like GPT-4, overrepresented Black populations in stereotypically associated conditions such as sarcoidosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, pre-eclampsia and essential hypertension, with even higher median misrepresentation of 44% and 31%, respectively, compared to 15% in the earlier-generation GPT-4 software.
“This persistent pattern may reflect underlying bias, though the new models may also default to generating prototypical cases rather than representative samples due to patterns in their training data.”
Tinnitus Neuromodulator. I don't know how well this works, but it's supposed to decrease your sense of being aware of your tinnitus. I used to use mynoise.net before, for focus work. It's still a great site for audioscapes.
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Auto insurance companies are increasingly less likely to pay when you get into a crash. Something to be aware of.
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New information about Fauci. It seems he knew that the vax was not safe when given to women pregnant in the first trimester. Yet he did not release this information. Apparently, he didn't want to disturb the narrative and discourage people from getting vaxxed. It's frightening and concerning that so many doctors were willing to be brainwashed ignore the facts. But I see the same thing going on today in other areas, such as allowing transgender M→F in women's sports, or deliberately feigning ignorance as to what a woman is. How do people allow themselves to deny simple truths and reality?
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The childhood vaccination schedule is being modified. Children will still be covered by the basics: measles, mumps, rubella, polio, pertussis, tetanus, diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcal disease, human papillomavirus, and varicella.
But these will be only for high-risk cases: rotavirus, covid-19, influenza, meningococcal disease, hepatitis A, and hepatitis.
Make perfect sense to me. Children don't routinely need hepatitis vaccines, but in the name of equity, one can't single out a special group and call them "high-risk". So everyone used to be recommended to get them. And I don't think that the vast majority of children should get the mRNA COVID vax, and most kids don't need the influenza vaccine or rotavirus vaccine either. But leave it to Washington state – they're going to flout whatever the Trump administration says, and require it anyway.