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Dr. Barry Dworkin

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  • Diabetes drug, Pioglitazone seems to inhibit the growth of certain types of prostate cancer. Further evaluation is needed due to the small study size but the science is sound.

    May 27, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 27, 2025 Source:Diabetes Drug Stops Prostate Cancer From Coming Back Reference:The anti-diabetic PPARγ agonist Pioglitazone inhibits cell proliferation and induces metabolic reprogramming in prostate cancer

  • Clearing Zombie Cells Eases Back Pain

    April 30, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 30, 2025 Source:Clearing Zombie Cells Eases Back Pain Reference:Senolytic treatment for low back pain

  • Creators of no-needle COVID-19 vaccine made in Hamilton seeking participants

    April 25, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 25, 2025 Source:Creators of no-needle COVID-19 vaccine made in Hamilton seeking participants

  • Pfizer ends development of weight-loss pill danuglipron

    April 16, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 16, 2025 Source:Pfizer ends development of weight-loss pill danuglipron

  • Canadian scientists discover new class of antibiotics that seem to work well against multidrug resistant bacteria

    March 27, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 27, 2025 Source:How antibiotics could fight superbugs: Canadian scientists make key discovery Reference:A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome

  • Meta-analysis finds that most back pain treatment modalities are ineffective with only a few having evidence of efficacy.

    March 25, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 25, 2025 Source:Can’t Kick Your Lower Back Pain? There’s a Reason For That, Study Finds Reference:Analgesic effects of non-surgical and non-interventional treatments for low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of placebo-controlled randomised trials

  • High resolution ultrasound could enable faster prostate cancer diagnosis

    March 24, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 24, 2025 Source:High resolution ultrasound could enable faster prostate cancer diagnosis

  • Many hypotheses surround the question and observation about why you can’t remember being a baby, new study finds

    March 21, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 21, 2025 Source:You can’t remember being a baby for a reason, new study finds Reference:Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants

  • mRNA-derived pancreatic cancer vaccine demonstrates efficacy in small study. Much more evaluation required for these bespoke vaccines.

    March 17, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 17, 2025 Source:Pancreatic cancer vaccine shows hope. Make the investment. Reference:RNA vaccine induces long-lived anti-tumour T cells in pancreatic cancer

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