RI-CLPMs use a multilevel approach to test for within-person differences that inform on the extent to which an individual’s increase in cannabis use precedes an increase in that individual’s psychosis symptoms, and vice versa. The approach provides the most rigorous …
Category: Disease Prevention
Carbs May Be Intrinsically Bad, Regardless of Weight
This week , another nail in the carbohydrate coffin as a small but rigorous study appearing in JCI Insight suggests that a low-carb, high-fat diet improves the metabolic syndromeeven when weight doesn’t change.[1] Source: Carbs May Be Intrinsically Bad, …
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Is the Sunscreen Scare Legitimate?
But just because something gets into your body doesn’t mean it’s bad for you. I know these compounds have chemical names, but the assumption that artificial compounds are worse for you than all of the other stuff we put in …
Bad Ideas Are Spreading Like the Plague – Reason.com
At the very moment we succeeded in banishing a deadly affliction from our country, in other words, people began eschewing the measures that made this medical miracle possible. Socialism, too, is having an American renaissance. As with measles, if it’s …
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Stem cell clinics co-opt clinicaltrials.gov to push unproven therapies – STAT
“When a judge ruled last week that the FDA could stop the work of U.S. Stem Cell, the firm’s trials remained on clinicaltrials.gov; the postings were no longer actively enlisting patients, but they didn’t mention that the company’s injections had …
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Round Up & Donate…when you Lyft
Sit for something with me and support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with Round Up & Donate from Lyft: https://lyft.com/round-up?c=BOB83129
The generalist curse | Canadian Healthcare Network – Physicians
In the days before we were smart, doctors used to name things after famous dead doctors. This gave us Morton’s toe, Virchow’s node, and a million other quirky artifacts. It took decades to break the habit. Now it is de …
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Fish Oil Flops for Asthma Control in Overweight Youth | Medpage Today
Fish oil supplementation was not associated with improvements in asthma-related outcomes among overweight/obese teens and young adults with uncontrolled asthma in randomized trial. Six months of treatment with 4 g/day of fish oil did not improve self-reported asthma control or …
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