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Owais Durrani

Austin, Texas
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Emergency Medicine Physician | White House Alum | 📺 Host of STEMCity on @KPRC2 | 📺 @cnn @msnbc @bbcnews @cbsnews | Longhorn 🤘| Founder @thetexastasty
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Peptides promise a shortcut — medicine doesn’t work that way

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By Owais Durrani
| Healio Primary Care
Key takeaways: Peptides are often marketed for tissue repair, inflammation, gut health and injury recovery. Although it is a promising area of medical research, there are real risks to using peptides without safeguards. There is a version of this story that ends well. A class of molecules with genuine biological potential, freed from bureaucratic delay, reaches patients who need them, backed by solid science and honest clinical data. That version requires patience, rigor and transparency.
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The Artemis II mission will help us better know the moon — and the human body

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By Owais Durrani
| Yahoo
If the Artemis II mission to the moon is to be a step toward sustained human exploration, even to Mars, then one of its contributions must be helping scientists figure out how to keep astronauts safe when they are days, or even months, away from Earth. Consider that in January, while aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Michael Fincke suddenly found himself unable to speak for about 20 minutes.
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How Health Misinformation Lands Patients in the Emergency Room

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By Owais Durrani, Annika Urban 
| U.S. News and World Report
Misinformation does not arrive in the emergency department as a trend or a debate, it arrives as a human in need. Some nights, misinformation arrives as a patient who stopped taking metformin because TikTok told them it was toxic and instead started eating cinnamon to "heal" their diabetes. They've ended up in the emergency department with diabetic ketoacidosis, a life-threatening state where the body runs out of usable energy, the blood turns dangerously acidic and organs begin to fail.
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