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Reverse causality, caloric intake, or a true link? Some confounding variables in an observational study that states that clusters of additives in ultraprocessed foods are linked to type 2 diabetes.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 14, 2025 Source:Clusters of additives in ultraprocessed foods linked to type 2 diabetes, study finds Reference:
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House Calls, #966, April 13, 2025: Exercising your memory
An interesting study that showed how the brain’s hippocampus, responsible for memory processing, grows in response to exercise. Original research article here. The Ontario Government’s proposal to provide medical services to people without a family doctor is ambitious and does not answer where they will get the family doctors and nurse practitioners to staff them.…
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New StemCell-Derived ‘Heart Patch’ Could Help Solve the Transplant Shortage
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 11, 2025 Source:New ‘Heart Patch’ Could Help Solve the Transplant Shortage Reference:Engineered heart muscle allografts for heart repair in primates and humans
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Why You Suddenly Have Horrendous Allergies This Spring
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 10, 2025 Source:Why You Suddenly Have Horrendous Allergies This Spring
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Can antidepressants increase sudden cardiac death risk? It remains a rare event and reverse causality may be partially at play.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 9, 2025 Source:Can antidepressants increase sudden cardiac death risk?
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Taking large doses of fat-soluble vitamins like A and E can lead to significant toxicity.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 8, 2025 Source:How these two vitamin supplements could do more harm than good Reference:
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Tackle these 17 health factors to lower your risk for dementia, stroke and depression, study says
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 7, 2025 Source:Tackle these 17 health factors to lower your risk for dementia, stroke and depression, study says Reference:Modifiable risk factors for stroke, dementia and late-life depression: a systematic review and DALY-weighted risk factors for a composite outcome
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House Calls, #965, April 6, 2025: Liberation Day
April 2 was my liberation day when I partnered with a management company to oversee the management of our practice. They now own the clinic and all I have to do, after 34 years of managing it with my friend and partner Dr. Stuart Kurtz, is show up and see my patients. Your Calls and…
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‘That barrier has been breached’: Infectious diseases doctor warns travellers about flesh-eating parasite
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 4, 2025 Source:‘That barrier has been breached’: Infectious diseases doctor warns travellers about flesh-eating parasite
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