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Coming back to: Preparing for an appointment: one page, three questions Replied, post #53 · Clinical › Prescriber conversations · 26 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Bringing a record of symptoms with dates and severities makes an assessment materially easier and is the single most useful preparation.
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Follow-up: How compounding permissions changed when supply normalised Replied, post #69 · Sourcing › Regulatory · 25 Jul 2026 · 13 likes On post #65 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification. Compounding and pharmacy rules: some jurisdictions allow a pharmacy to compound a drug that is not on the…
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Pooling trials with different estimands Replied, post #123 · Evidence › Meta-analyses · 23 Jul 2026 · 11 likes Post #121 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction. Fixed-effect and random-effects models answer different questions. The first assumes one…
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Revisiting: Taste changes and food aversion, reported and discussed Replied, post #23 · Practice › Side effects · 21 Jul 2026 · 2 likes Post #22 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction. Small methodological point on Taste changes and food aversion: repeating a measurement is…
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Receptor desensitisation as a tolerance hypothesis, and its weak evidence Replied, post #45 · Pharmacology › Receptor biology · 15 Jul 2026 · 30 likes That reframing is the whole thing. The facts I already had.
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Substitution between formats during a shortage — what changed since Replied, post #8 · Access › Shortages · 11 Jul 2026 · 20 likes Supply interruptions: official shortage notices are published by regulatory agencies. That is the correct primary source rather than pharmacy rumors or forum discussion.
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Revisiting: Protein density versus volume when you cannot eat much Replied, post #48 · Nutrition & Training › Protein & intake · 9 Jul 2026 · 1 like Protein targets during weight loss: the standard recommendation is 1.6 to 2.2 grams per kilogram of body weight. Individual requirements vary but that range is a…
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Osteoarthritis and mechanical versus metabolic improvement — one year on Replied, post #7 · Clinical › Comorbidities · 9 Jul 2026 · 13 likes I disagree with the framing of Osteoarthritis and mechanical versus metabolic above, and I think it is a substantive disagreement rather than a terminological one.…
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Follow-up: The most useful thing you learned here that was not the answer you came for Replied, post #10 · Lounge › Off topic · 20 Jun 2026 · 31 likes Analytics first, in my case, and I still find the practice category the harder read. Chromatography has one right answer more often than logistics does. On balance I…
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Revisiting: The report format the maintainers ask for, and why each field is there Replied, post #80 · Sourcing › Vendor reports · 7 Jun 2026 · 2 likes The cost of a submission is worth stating. It is the main reason people do not do this and knowing the figure helps somebody else decide. A single observation, in a…
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Second pass at: Sleep apnoea improving and the equipment implications Replied, post #43 · Wellbeing › Sleep · 25 May 2026 · 8 likes Sleep quality changes reported here have several plausible contributors, and separating drug effects from weight change, from schedule change, and from anxiety is…
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Preservatives: function, testing, and limits — one year on Replied, post #15 · Pharmacology › Formulation chemistry · 8 May 2026 · 0 likes I changed my mind about Preservatives after someone here asked me for the source and I could not produce one. That is worth saying out loud because it is the ordinary…