Medicine

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  Warning: scholars are after your child’s penis

  “More than the Calf Wants to Suck the Cow Wants to Suckle” from the Jewish Talmud (Pesachim 112a) teaches us that sometimes we want to provide something more than is possible. I thought about it today when I read a study published in the journal AIDS and Behavior. The study titled “The 1982 Medicaid Funding…

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  Understanding polygenic score with Bugs Bunny

  There is much confusion about what polygenic scores are and how to interpret them. There are even some excellent papers that criticized them (e.g., Wellenreuther and Hansson 2016), however it is fair to say that papers that preach in favor of polygenic scores are probably more popular. To clear some of the confusion around polygenic…

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  Why do infants suddenly die? Why did Satan marry Lilith? Why do Jewish parents pass their boys as girls?

  Our world is filled with mysteries that often seem unrelated. Consider Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or cot death, this form of unexplained death occurs when a seemingly healthy infant (0-12 months) dies in sleep with no cause of death established in a post-mortem investigation. Consider the peculiar choice of Samael (the Satan in Judaism)…