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An app that predicts when you get the flu? Not so fast. Daily Mail cannot correctly report study….again.
Health Headlines Commentary for January 30, 2017 Source: After the Fitbit, it’s the ‘Sickbit’: New app can tell when you’re about to get flu… 12 hours before your first sneeze! Reference: Digital Health: Tracking Physiomes and Activity Using Wearable Biosensors Reveals Useful Health-Related Information
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Wednesday House Call January 18, 2016
Wednesday House Call January 18, 2016 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss the latest health stories of the week. Today:Marketing influence and our addiction to junk food makes the case when people are upset that McDonald’s is warning that they will be allowing peanuts back into their menus. Your questions about Irritable Bowel…
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Study finds that asthma misdiagnosed in almost 1/3 of cases
Health Headlines Commentary for January 18, 2017 Source: A third of adults treated for asthma don’t actually have airway disorder: study Reference: Reevaluation of Diagnosis in Adults With Physician-Diagnosed Asthma
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Tonsillectomies offer only modest short-term reduction of repeat infections compared to warthful waiting
Health Headlines Commentary for January 17, 2017 Source: Tonsillectomy improved throat infections in short-term, review finds Tonsillectomy may have short-term benefits in recurrent throat infection Reference: Tonsillectomy Versus Watchful Waiting for Recurrent Throat Infection: A Systematic Review
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Study stating hot chili peppers ability to help you live longer full of hot air
Health Headlines Commentary for January 16, 2017 Source: How hot chilli could help you live longer: Regularly eating the peppers found to reduce the chance of dying by 13% Reference: Hot red chilli peppers linked to longer lifespan
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Sunday House Call, #598, January 15, 2016: Just a little peanut
Sunday House Call, #598, January 15, 2016 Topics today include: New guidelines for peanut exposure in infants and children. You calls about back pain, groin injuries, pain relief, fungal infection of the nail, blood pressure and fatty liver, and controlling nosebleeds.
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Trump’s actions legitimize anti-vaccination conspiracies by hiring conspiracy advocate to investigate vaccines
Health Headlines Commentary for January 11, 2017 Source: Trump asks skeptic to probe vaccine safety, alarming doctors
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Wednesday House Call January 11, 2016
Wednesday House Call January 11, 2016 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss the latest health stories of the week. Today:Donald Trump’s vaccine conspiracy views become official, flu vaccine, frozen shoulder, sleep medications and why to use them sparingly if at all, flu and exercise, and saunas and reduced heart disease risk study, ,
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More evidence states that cough syrup preparations are ineffective
Health Headlines Commentary for January 9, 2017 Source: Great cough syrup con: Medicines we buy from the chemist have virtually no effect, say scientists Reference: Video presentation from the American Chemical Society
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