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New tool being developed by the University of Waterloo to help identify false health claims.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 29, 2024 Source:‘Life-or-death’ issue: How one tool is identifying false health claims on social media Reference:A Big Data ecosystem for evaluating health misinformation on social media
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Hangover cures that are incongruous with physiological reality and laws of chemistry continue to be peddled as realistic solutions. Alas, despite these beliefs and claims, your body will always affirm (in concert with dose, dosing intervals, metabolism, absorption, and excretion along with medical history, liver, kidney function and body size) why it ain’t so.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 5, 2024 Source:5 Myths About Hangovers You Need to Stop Believing
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Rosemary oil is a viral hack for hair growth. Does it work? No it does not. But they will shill for your purchase at the end of the “article”
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 19, 2024 Source:Rosemary oil is a viral hack for hair growth. Does it work?
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Weak evidence (on the basis of one small study) to suggest that a supplement can mitigate postpartum blues. Also wary when the article advertises the product in question and quotes the senior author and patent holder of its virtues.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 11, 2024 Source:Canadian researchers create natural supplement to combat postpartum blues Reference:Dietary supplement for mood symptoms in early postpartum: a double-blind randomized placebo controlled trial
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‘Oatzempic’: TikTok Users Claim New Drink Helps With Weight Loss—Here’s What You Need to Know. This should have been an April Fools’ joke.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 1, 2024 Source:‘Oatzempic’: TikTok Users Claim New Drink Helps With Weight Loss—Here’s What You Need to Know
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The social media influencers peddling and promoting the ‘Sephora kids’ fad/obsession with skin care products to young children and tweens are acting like child predators.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 13, 2024 Source:‘Sephora kids’: Tweens’ obsession with prestige skin care raises alarm bells
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Canadians are travelling to Mexico for Lyme disease treatments. That worries health experts. Chronic disease outcome not of bacterial origin but as a consequence of immune function gone awry.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 10, 2023 Source:Canadians are travelling to Mexico for Lyme disease treatments. That worries health experts
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Life is for living and not obsessing over striving for immortality a la The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever. He would be the only human in the history of our species to accomplish this if he succeeds. Good luck with that.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 21, 2023 Source:The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever
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Nearly half of dog owners are hesitant to vaccinate their pets. Some believe their dogs will develop autism. I kid you not.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 31, 2023 [display_podcast] Source:Nearly half of dog owners are hesitant to vaccinate their petshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230831142809.htm Reference:Sick as a dog? The prevalence, politicization, and health policy consequences of canine vaccine hesitancy (CVH)