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How a photo of a person’s face could help predict whether they’ll survive cancer treatment smacks of craniometry and phrenology and the historical disaster and harm to people that resulted from this pseudoscience.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 23, 2026 Source:How a photo of a person’s face could help predict whether they’ll survive cancer treatment Reference:Foundation artificial intelligence models for health recognition by use of face photographs (FAHR-Face): a model development and validation study
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Researchers have uncovered a likely origin of our allergies
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 22, 2026 Source:Researchers have uncovered a likely origin of our allergies
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As Christina Applegate reveals MS misdiagnosis, doctor warns of wrong treatment risks
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 21, 2026 Source:As Christina Applegate reveals MS misdiagnosis, doctor warns of wrong treatment risks
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Sleep disruption in mice engineered to develop Alzheimer plaques seems to respond to an immunosuppressive medication used in cancer treatment
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 20, 2026 Source:“Mind-blowing” Alzheimer’s breakthrough: Two hours of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques Reference:Early microglial response to amyloid plaques drives sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease
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Preliminary evaluation using a common blood pressure medication to activate brown fat in mice. What would be the health benefit.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 19, 2026 Source:Brown Fat Can Be Beneficial For The Body – And a Blood Pressure Drug Could Turn It On Reference:Artificial intelligence-enabled clinical phenotyping of human brown fat
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House Calls, #1034, October 18, 2026: UPFs are not AOK
The health effects of ultra-processed foods (UPF) on brain health in this study from JAMA. Your Calls and Comments: Playlist 1st segment Intro: Hooked on a Feeling – Blue Swede, Bjorn Skifs Outro: Bad Medicine – Bon Jovi 2nd segment Intro: No Good – Kaleo Outro: Junk Food Junkie – Larry Grace 3rd segment Intro: Highway to…
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Various hypotheses considered to try to answer question about increasing incidence rates (although low absolute increase) of various cancers in people under 50.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 15, 2026 Source:Why are more people under 50 getting cancer? Reference:Cancer remains predominantly a disease of older adults, but a World Cancer Research Fund analysis shows significant increases in several early-onset cancers (diagnosed before age 50) in England, the US and the Netherlands. In England (2001–2023 rates among under-50s): Liver…
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