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Friday Favorites: How Effective Is Chemotherapy? And How Much Does It Improve Survival?
Most chemo drugs are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration without evidence of benefit on survival or quality of life. If you put together all the new chemo drugs that had been approved …
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Preventing Gestational Diabetes During Pregnancy with Diet
Eating well-balanced plant-based diets during pregnancy can reduce risks of gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders like preeclampsia.
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Do Not Eat Pawpaws
Pawpaw fruits, like soursop, guanabana, sweetsop, sugar apple, cherimoya, and custard apple, contain neurotoxins that may cause a neurodegenerative disease.
Published on 4 weeks ago
Friday Favorites: Micromorts – How Risky Is It to Go Under Anesthesia?
A micromort as a unit of comparing and communicating risk to patients equivalent to a one-in-a-million chance of dying.
Published on 1 month ago
The Benefits of Purslane for Treating Oral Lichen Planus
The weed purslane appears to not only be the safest treatment available for the autoimmune disease lichen planus, but the most effective, too.
Published on 1 month ago
Are the IQs of Vegetarian Children Higher?
Are the higher IQs found in vegetarian children the result of confounding factors or reverse causation?
Published on 1 month ago
Friday Favorites: Mixed Nuts Put to the Test for Erectile Dysfunction
Walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts are put to the test for erectile dysfunction, sexual function, sperm count, and semen quality.
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Is Soil Degradation Reducing the Nutrition of Fruits and Vegetables?
Is the purported decline of nutrients in our crops due to soil degradation, or is that just supplement industry propaganda?
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Drug Residues in Meat and Their Effect on Antibiotic Resistance
What percentage of meat samples test positive for drug residue violations?
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Friday Favorites: Do the Health Benefits of Peanut Butter Include Longevity?
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago