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Healthy babies born in Britain after scientists used DNA from three people to avoid genetic disease
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 17, 2025 Source:Healthy babies born in Britain after scientists used DNA from three people to avoid genetic disease
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Rapamycin may extend lifespan as effectively as dietary restrictions if you are a mouse, rat, turquoise killifish, or rheses macaque monkey. No studies on humans and to do so, based on side effect profile of drug, is fraught with serious adverse affects
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 27, 2025 Source:Rapamycin may extend lifespan as effectively as dietary restrictions Reference:Rapamycin, Not Metformin, Mirrors Dietary Restriction-Driven Lifespan Extension in Vertebrates: A Meta-Analysis
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We May Soon Have a Blood Test to Predict Postpartum Depression
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 9, 2025 Source:We May Soon Have a Blood Test to Predict Postpartum Depression
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Popular diabetes medication significantly slows down aging in monkey study. Mechanisms are fascinating.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 2, 2025 Source:Popular diabetes medication significantly slows down aging Reference:Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys
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Tanning beds rebranded and touted as a boon for health and wellness belie the physical reality that UV exposure is cumulative increasing the risk of skin cancers with each successive use.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 26, 2025 Source:Sunbed use on the rise as salons sell ‘wellness’ benefits
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mRNA vaccines show promise in pancreatic cancer in early trial
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 21, 2025 Source:mRNA vaccines show promise in pancreatic cancer in early trial Reference:RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8+ T cells in pancreatic cancer
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Bird flu genetically combining with human flu strains is a concern and is being actively monitored by health organizations like the Public Health Agency of Canada among others.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 19, 2025 Source:The danger of bird flu mixing with human flu? A potential pandemic
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Study looks into the genetics of gout and finds that it is indeed complicated.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 14, 2025 Source:Huge Study Shows Where Gout Comes From – It’s Not What We Thought Reference:A genome-wide association analysis reveals new pathogenic pathways in gout
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Interesting study proposes that UV-mediated RNA damage seems to be the primary cause of the sunburn reaction.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 24, 2025 Source:We’ve Been Wrong About What Causes Sunburn, Scientists Discover Reference:The ribotoxic stress response drives acute inflammation, cell death, and epidermal thickening in UV-irradiated skin in vivo