Category: Medicine
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Beuatifull Ilustrations even better than UWorld.



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“In the code in Figure 2, the device mounts a remote NFS share from a host at an IP address that is not
registered to the device manufacturer but is registered to a university. The research team did not observe
communication to the university’s IP, only attempts by the device to reach out”
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/contec-cms8000-contains-backdoor
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Some interesting results of a new randomized trial:
- Reduced risk of clinically important upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- No clinically significant effect on mortality
- No greater risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia
- Same duration of stay in the hospital and in the ICU and hospital mortality.

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“In den USA wurde erstmals einem lebenden Patienten eine Schweineniere transplantiert. Der 62-Jährige erhole sich gut von der vierstündigen Operation, die am Samstag in Boston stattgefunden habe, teilte das durchführende Massachusetts General Hospital mit. Die Schweineniere war vor der Implantation gentechnisch modifiziert worden.”

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A screenshot from a Telegram group by another anonymous reddit user

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Use of a hash algorithm in patient’s sensitive information (Name, Date of Birth or Social Security Number) using salt has the advantage of de-identifying personal data and also yields a unique identifier. This unique identifier can be later used to compare the disease course or follow ups in a different clinic. On the contrary an alphanumeric code can not re-identify these individuals.












