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As U.S. officials spread medical misinformation, scientists fact check online
[Asma] Khalil is part of a growing movement of physician-scientists leveraging their resources and expertise to push back against what ...
France launches 4-part plan to counter health disinformation
Faced with the rapid growth of information channels, the rise of social networks, and the virality of false or misleading ...
Bloated advice: MAHA influencers are flooding social media with misinformation on gut health
“I had one patient who saw a TikTok video about doing a colon cleanse, bought something over the counter to ...
Heartbreaking: Yes, you can die from a broken heart—especially men
A patient comes crashing into the emergency room with severe chest pain.... So the patient is rushed to the cath ...
Can Ozempic and other GLP-1 weight loss drugs make you suicidal
Is it even biologically plausible that Ozempic could lead to suicide? I think it is, actually. First off, we know ...
Dumping the annoying CPAP machine: More than 40% of obese people taking Tirzepatides to lose weight find they soon have no need for the breathing device
The diabetes and weight loss drug tirzepatide (Mounjaro for type 2 diabetes; Zepbound for obesity) was so effective at reducing sleep disruptions in patients ...
Going on 4 years later, 1 in 16 Americans still suffer from brain fog and other remnants of COVID
4 years ago, physicians coined the term "long COVID" to describe a form of the viral infection from which recovery ...
Risk of breast cancer coming back? AsymMirai AI compares breasts to more accurately predict cancer 5-years out
New way of using AI can predict breast cancer 5 years in advance — and unlike previous AI models, we ...
Our individual genetic makeups drive how we respond to a COVID infection
A striking characteristic of COVID‑19 is that the severity of clinical outcomes is remarkably variable. Establishing a prognosis for individuals ...
BRCA blood test: Simple blood sample can identify breast cancer developing up to two years before a formal diagnosis
A new blood test developed by Dutch researchers can identify changes in serum proteins that signal the onset of breast ...
What’s the best time of day to exercise?
Performing moderate to vigorous activity (MVPA) in the afternoon or evening may improve blood glucose control to a greater extent ...
What happens if a nurse spreads fake COVID facts — and what counts as misinformation?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare membership associations and organizations took a stance on the spread of misinformation by licensed ...
How might COVID evolve this fall? Here are 3 possible scenarios, and none is great
As the United States enters a third fall with COVID-19, the virus for many is seemingly gone — or at ...
Rethink your daily multivitamin: Most vitamin supplements likely useless at preventing cancer or strokes
There is not enough evidence to recommend for or against taking most vitamin and mineral supplements to prevent heart disease, ...
What’s the likelihood of developing universal broad spectrum coronavirus vaccine?
Individual researchers from eclectic fields are finding new ways to prevent future pandemics. Artem Babaian, PhD, a computational biologist at ...
Tinnitus and COVID vaccines: Cases grow prompting calls for more research
It's now known that tinnitus may be an unexpected side effect of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, and there is an urgent need ...
What will Covid look like in the years ahead? Young children could be most vulnerable to new variants
Researchers predict SARS-CoV-2 could become endemic and primarily infect children, thereby shifting risk from older people to toddlers too young ...
50% of COVID sufferers report damaged sense of smell 5 months after recovery
More than 50% of healthcare workers infected with SARS-CoV-2 report that their sense of smell has not returned to normal ...
Variants on top of variants: COVID continues to mutate in Brazil, posing more perils to country already crushed by the pandemic
The unchecked spread of the more contagious SARS-CoV-2 variants in Brazil appears to have created even more dangerous versions of ...
Depression and anxiety linked to early onset of Alzheimer’s
Investigators found the age of onset of AD is about 2 years earlier among patients with depression and 3 years ...
Cancer dates back millions of years. Now we are cracking its evolutionary code
Cancer cells are on a continual evolutionary journey of mutation and proliferation, creating a genetically diverse population with a range ...
Can a baby get cancer from a mom’s cervical tumor?
[Japanese] investigators describe lung cancer in two boys that "probably developed" from their respective mothers via vaginal transmission during birth ...
Single-dose COVID vaccine by Johnson & Johnson/Janssen up next for approval
Among the multiple vaccine candidates around the globe, next up in the arsenal against COVID-19 is likely the single-dose Ad26.COV2.S ...
US appears ill-prepared to support COVID vaccine rollout
In a four-page memo this summer, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told health departments across the country to draft ...
90 quack COVID cures and counting: Dr. Joe Mercola added to FDA list of fraudsters promoting bogus cures
[T]he FDA has issued more than 90 warning letters about fraudulent products claiming to prevent or cure the disease. While the bulk ...
‘Really tough decision’: What should doctors do when genetic testing reveals that dad isn’t the child’s biological father?
The child was critically ill. The treating team at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, was stumped and worried that ...
DNA sequencing of pap smears non-invasive alternative to prenatal genetic screening
Targeted DNA sequencing of fetal cells from Papanicolaou (Pap) smears may offer an improved and earlier route to prenatal genetic ...
Should doctors inform patients if they have untreatable genetic diseases?
Ethical considerations related to consent, privacy, and confidentiality have been upended by genetic testing, according to members of a panel...at ...
