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How to prepare for tick season.
Categories: Prevention and ScreeningMedical Mythbusting Commentary for April 23, 2026 Source:‘You have to be careful’: Experts warn tick season has started early in Canada Tick bite prevention strategies…
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Researchers are working on blood tests that may provide early detection of potential Alzheimer’s disease later in life.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 22, 2026 Source:Blood Tests Could Reveal Alzheimer’s Risk Years Before Symptoms Appear Reference:Plasma phosphorylated tau 217 and longitudinal trajectories of…
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Large observational study finds correlation between prenatal cholesterol-disrupting meds and higher autism rates; causation not proven.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 21, 2026 Source:Millions of US birth records uncover an autism risk surge tied to common drugs taken during pregnancy Reference:Sterol…
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In Vitro Lab Study on Sucralose Impurity Shows DNA Damage at Unrealistically High Doses; No Evidence of Human Toxicity at Normal Splenda Use
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 20, 2026 Source:Popular Sweetener Linked to DNA Damage – “It’s Something You Should Not Be Eating” Reference:Toxicological and pharmacokinetic properties…
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House Calls, #1011, April 19, 2026: It’s in the blood! Python’s that is.
Categories: Sunday House Call ShowsHouse Calls, #1011, April 19, 2026: It’s in the blood! Python’s that is. A recent discovery of a metabolite in python blood was shown to…
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New way to lower high cholesterol by stopping its production demonstrated in mice. It is also designed for a subset of people with a genetically inherited condition that causes significant elevated levels.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 17, 2026 Source:Scientists Discover Game-Changing New Way To Treat High Cholesterol Reference: A human iPSC-derived hepatocyte screen identifies compounds that…
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Scientists finally crack mystery of rare COVID adenovirus vaccine blood clots
Categories: Clinical Research, Hematology, Microbiology, Molecular Medicine, Protein Chemistry, VaccinesMedical Mythbusting Commentary for April 15, 2026 Source:Scientists finally crack mystery of rare COVID vaccine blood clots Reference:Adenoviral Inciting Antigen and Somatic Hypermutation in VITT…
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Metformin shown to increase a biological effect of exercise in men with prostate cancer reducing insulin resistance, easing metabolic stress and weight gain. What this isn’t is exercise in a pill.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 14, 2026 Source:Exercise in a Pill? Metformin Shows Surprising Effects in Cancer Patients Reference:The anti-obesogenic metabolite, Lac-Phe, is elevated by…