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"friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense." - aristotle ; MSU 2020

[culture @notgwendalupe]

this behind the scenes footage of 'Sex and the City' ... this is like finding the Holy Grail

[Sam Alberti @sam_alberti]

I hope they fall in love

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix.

What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses.

The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there.

The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body.

PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%.

A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.

[∀ 𝖑𝖊𝖝 @holyh00ker]

paycheck and tax return hit at the same time

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Donald Trump asked his DoorDash driver what she thinks about “men” playing in women’s sports:

“I really don't have an opinion on that. I'm here about No Tax on Tips.”

[Effin @EffinOfficial]

neoclassical disco lines be like “no baroque boys”

[Reverend Scott @Reverend_Scott]

I wanna see the CEO of Pfizer taking benzos

[feral stardust @celestialxsigh]

Is wellbutrin supposed to make you feel like judy garland

[soup🍓 @thrluv]

touch grass? buddy i'm packing a bowl right now

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@amitylee13 @oceansiderct Here’s a picture of the list of those who voted to release the names (eg voted against referring to committee). And here’s a link to the full roll which includes those who voted to send it to die in committee.
https://t.co/p1ZoTsILgh

[em @emilyagain]

Beautiful things are happening on NYC Facebook Marketplace

[lexiiiiiiiiiiiii @blondspit]

Giving up hitting-other-people’s-vapes-when-I’m-drunk for lent.

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

what a privilege it is to come home and have a cat waiting for you, with their triangle ears and their little meows

[fawn @fawnncel]

fucking everything up and reaching flaw state

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

Read this again and again and again.

[ppigg @s4m31p4n]

White people need to take adderall to open presents

[Ms.K @mskmalibu]

stylish older women remind me what life is really all about

[Kyle 🌱 @KylePlantEmoji]

Overheard at a bar

Guy, flirting: all you gotta do is make a roux, a-

Woman, drunk: I'm not gonna make a fucking roux ok