when patients get their blood pressure taken at the doctor’s office, the doctor requires you to sit, legs uncrossed. But what would happen if we stand up to get our blood pressure taken? can we stand? or do we have to sit? And why?
I believe the logic for taking blood pressure while sitting versus standing is that it typically produces a more reliable measurement, meaning that measurements taken today, tomorrow, and next week under the same conditions will be as similar as possible
Chronic aid access problems have meant that Caesarean sections have been performed without anaesthetic while other women have been unable to deliver their stillborn babies because medical staff are overwhelmed, the UN agency said....
"We have seen evidenced once more that women and children are the first victims of conflict and that our duty to seek peace is a duty to them. We are failing them,” UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous said in a statement issued alongside the report....
Thank you, kind Lemmy, I appreciate it. Getting down-voted and mocked for trying to add context that some might find useful (judgeing by the title and top-rated comment) is one of the more negative experiences I’ve had on Lemmy
I buy from online stores (eg, clothing, jewelry, beauty) who don’t use amazon, and fortunately I’ve never seen evidence of amazon involved in those purchases. I admire your efforts to find alternatives from that awful company
On June 17, 1994 celebrity and NFL player OJ Simpson had failed turn himself in to the LAPD in connection with the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman....
How does this rank in terms of (in)famous highway chases from police? I’m asking because I’ve seen this scenario in the Simpsons, I think, and other fictional shows and I am wondering how much of a reference to OJ these are
Great points! Also, “if the glove don’t fit, you must acquit”. That kind of reducing an issue to a single point and putting a catchy spin on it seems rampant in political messaging and advertising these days
I believe that’s factually incorrect. “Yellow journalism” became a known term circa the mid-1890s (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#Etymology…). Meanwhile “journalism” has essentially meant what term means today from an earlier time and has a different etymology:
journalism (n.) “business of writing, editing, or publishing a newspaper or public journal,” 1821, regarded at first as a French word in English, from French journalisme (1781), from journal “daily publication” (see journal); compare journalist. (www.etymonline.com/word/journalism).
Also - and I’m only familiar with the 1971 film version with Gene Wilder - Grandpa Joe is clearly the only friend, companion, and available adult in Charlie’s life who he can talk to. His mother is too busy from working to support the family. He doesn’t have friends or money to spend. And Grandpa Joe does show some guilt and awareness about not contributing more to the family. He has that great line when Charlie tries to give him a nickel for tobacco: “When a loaf of bread looks like a banquet, I’ve no right buying tobacco.”
Removing downvoting feels intuitively wrong to me (eg, I believe that dissent is a really important part of a healthy democracy). If all those mega-corp platforms are removing downvoting, then I’m pretty confident my intuition on this matter is correct
This is a really moving and inspiring comic! I really felt for the cardinal when it was angrily reading the book, and then felt so happy for it when it was enjoying the admiration of the Oregonians. Wholesome!
I noticed I had to comment when I saw no IT Crowd references, and you helped bump it up :) I’d love to see Lemmy communities for some of my favourite British TV shows (IT Crowd, Toast, MItchell and Webb [Peep Show])
The gist of it: with each passing decade there’s a growing shortage of construction laborers, resulting in large wait times for housing to be built. Some analysts wonder why the key demographic isn’t showing up....
Why are we required to sit down when getting our blood pressure taken? Would the results be affected if we were standing?
when patients get their blood pressure taken at the doctor’s office, the doctor requires you to sit, legs uncrossed. But what would happen if we stand up to get our blood pressure taken? can we stand? or do we have to sit? And why?
Gaza crisis: Babies being born ‘into hell’ amid desperate aid shortages, UN says (news.un.org)
Chronic aid access problems have meant that Caesarean sections have been performed without anaesthetic while other women have been unable to deliver their stillborn babies because medical staff are overwhelmed, the UN agency said....
Two mothers killed each hour in Gaza conflict, UN says (news.un.org)
"We have seen evidenced once more that women and children are the first victims of conflict and that our duty to seek peace is a duty to them. We are failing them,” UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous said in a statement issued alongside the report....
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On June 17, 1994 celebrity and NFL player OJ Simpson had failed turn himself in to the LAPD in connection with the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman....
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Where did the construction workers go? (www.npr.org)
The gist of it: with each passing decade there’s a growing shortage of construction laborers, resulting in large wait times for housing to be built. Some analysts wonder why the key demographic isn’t showing up....