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☆ How doctors create a penis from a vagina and why one trans man changed his mind about which surgery to get
  + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Creating a penis from a vagina is more complicated than turning a penis into a vagina. Then, they must define their priorities for their penis, Horwitz said. Then, during a meta, doctors cut ligaments around the newly enlarged clitoris, allowing it to extend away from the body. Phalloplasty creates a penis from a skin graftScar left over from a skin graft taken for a phalloplasty surgery. Once they've formed the neo-phallus (new penis), doctors surgically connect it to the genitals' nerve and vascular system.
☆ Too Many Older Men Are Still Screened for Prostate Cancer
  + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Paula Span | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
He’d occasionally noticed blood in his urine and wanted to have that checked out. His doctor ordered a prostate-specific antigen, or P.S.A., test to measure a protein in his blood that might indicate prostate cancer — or a number of more benign conditions. “It came back somewhat elevated,” said Mr. Loree, 68, an instructional designer who lives in Berkeley, Calif. A biopsy found a few cancer cells, “a minuscule amount,” he recalled. Mr. Loree was at very low risk, but nobody likes hearing the c-word. But because his brother and a friend had both been diagnosed with prostate cancer and had undergone aggressive treatment that he preferred to avoid, Mr. Loree felt comfortable with a more conservative approach called active surveillance.
☆ ChatGPT is more empathetic than real doctors, experts say
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Aaron Mok | Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Experts found the chatbot's responses to patient questions were higher quality and more empathetic. ChatGPT can still make grave medical errors, but this study suggests AI may improve upon a doctor's bedside manner. ChatGPT may be just as good as doctors — if not better — at responding to patients' medical questions, according to a new study. The chatbot's responses were rated 3.6-times higher in quality and 9.8-times higher in empathy than those of the physicians. But ChatGPT can still make mistakes and misdiagnose, which is why doctors are cautious about letting it loose to patients at home.
☆ Google wasted its pandemic opportunity. Now, it's scrambling to catch up.
  + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
This Amazon worker similarly enjoys office life. The company is currently also lagging in the AI space (thanks to the buzzy AI chatbot ChatGPT). Now, the company is going all in on AI instead. Check out his experiences with the AI tools here. It remains the only Big Tech company to avoid widespread layoffs.
☆ What we lend in the shadows
  + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
"What We Do in the Shadows." New companies, especially ones that don't make any money are "pre-revenue," as VCs like to say, aren't easy to lend to. — there are also risks to letting investment firms lend billions of dollars without much oversight. Private-credit firms are looking to fill the lending gap left by Silicon Valley Bank's downfall. Inside Silicon Valley Bank's $70 billion loan portfolio that's now up for grabs.
☆ Ehlers-Danlos syndrome affects millions. Why isn't the medical profession paying more attention?
  + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Sarah Lazarus | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +19 min
“Have you heard of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome?” the podiatrist asked me. There are 13 types of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), according to research and advocacy organization The Ehlers-Danlos Society. Drag queen Yvie Oddly, who has hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, crab walks down the pink carpet at RuPaul's DragCon LA in 2019. Bluestein says that for many years it was thought that one in 5,000 people had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. But despite her career choice, Bluestein only received her hEDS diagnosis when she was 47 – more than 30 years later.
☆ I perform vasectomies in Texas. I've had a huge increase in patients post-Roe — and a lot of them are young and childless.
  + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Cari Shane | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade earlier this year, there's been an uptick in the number of vasectomy requests at my clinic. In the two days immediately following the overturning of Roe, we received 150 vasectomy appointment requests. We were averaging five or six electronic appointment requests for vasectomy consultations per day before the overturning of Roe. I tell my patients that the vasectomy is meant to be permanent sterilizationWhile I love doing reversals, they're not 100%. I think vasectomies are fertility medicineThis is a procedure that I like to do and I think I'm good at.
☆ A new wave of companies is making testosterone easily available online. The authors of a recent study say there could be risks to patients.
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Sarah Braner | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
A recent study reviewed seven companies that prescribe testosterone therapy online. These companies say that they make treatment more accessible for people who already suspect they have low testosterone. A new study shows that DTC companies do not all follow medical guidelinesThe new study encourages patients looking to get testosterone therapy online to educate themselves before taking the leap. The study found that six out of seven of the companies tested offered testosterone therapy to the shopper. The study was not meant to evaluate companies prescribing testosterone for gender affirming hormone therapy, which is a different process than testosterone replacement therapy.
☆ The most stressful job in the U.S., according to data―it pays $208,000 per year
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
They did this by noting the importance of accepting criticism and dealing calmly with high-stress situations in each job. That's certainly the case for the job that ranked highest on that list, urologist. In terms of level of stress out of a 100, the job ranked 100. Despite its level of stress, this job is also the highest paying among those most stressful on the list. "I think it goes to show that there could be intensely stressful jobs that go across the spectrum of salaries," says Vicki Salemi, career expert at Monster.
☆ Sperm counts may be declining globally, review finds, adding to debate over male fertility
  + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN —Over the past 50 years, human sperm counts appear to have fallen by more than 50% around the globe, according to an updated review of medical literature. The review, and its conclusions, have sparked a debate among experts in male fertility. Overall, the researchers determined that sperm counts fell by sightly more than 1% per year between 1973 and 2018. Normal sperm counts are considered to be over 40 million per milliliter. In other research, Levine says, he and others have teased out some factors that are associated with lower sperm counts.
☆ 10 of the most high stress jobs in the U.S.―some pay as much as $208,000 a year
  + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
There are jobs that are stressful that pay less and jobs that are stressful that pay more." Stress level: 100 Median annual salary: $208,000Film and video editorThese professionals edit footage according to scripts or the film or video's narrative. Stress level: 99 Median annual salary: $62,680Anesthesiologist assistantThese assistants help anesthesiologists administer anesthesia for procedures such as surgery. Stress level: 97 Median annual salary: $77,600Obstetrician and gynecologistThese medical experts specialize in the female organs and reproductive system. Stress level: 96 Median annual salary: $39,230Nurse anesthetist
☆ Clinics offer free vasectomies, citing a surge in demand
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
Sixty vasectomies will be offered over three days in and outside Planned Parenthood clinics in St. Louis, Springfield and Joplin to uninsured patients during the first week of November amid what the clinics say is a surge in demand for the procedure. Guarin also plans to offer discounted vasectomies that month at his regular clinic in the Des Moines area. Guarin, who serves on the medical advisory board for the World Vasectomy Day, helped offer vasectomies last year at the Planned Parenthood in St. Louis to raise awareness about the procedure. In July alone, the Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri performed 42 vasectomies, compared to 10 in the same month last year. Dr. Margaret Baum, the medical director of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, will be partnering with Guarin to provide the free vasectomies.
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