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Interesting research evaluating the effect sleeping pills have on the brain’s ability to restore itself during a specific sleep stage.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 12, 2025 Source:Common sleep medication may prevent brain from clearing ‘waste’ Reference:Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep
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Interesting study proposes that UV-mediated RNA damage seems to be the primary cause of the sunburn reaction.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 24, 2025 Source:We’ve Been Wrong About What Causes Sunburn, Scientists Discover Reference:The ribotoxic stress response drives acute inflammation, cell death, and epidermal thickening in UV-irradiated skin in vivo
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Does ‘zombie deer disease’ pose risks for humans? No evidence to date that it does.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 22, 2024 Source:Does ‘zombie deer disease’ pose risks for humans?
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Enzymatic-blocking hypothesis to be further evaluated to explain why some people get headaches after drinking red wine
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 21, 2023 Source:Why do some people get headaches from drinking red wine? Reference:Inhibition of ALDH2 by quercetin glucuronide suggests a new hypothesis to explain red wine headaches
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More research starting to elucidate mechanism behind Long-COVID.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 24, 2023 Source:New research offers clues to what causes long COVID — fuelling hope for eventual treatments Reference:Serotonin reduction in post-acute sequelae of viral infectionDistinguishing features of long COVID identified through immune profiling
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LSD and psilocin discovered to bind to specific receptors that induce changes to brain structure and function that may explain why they have a rapid antidepressant effect.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 7, 2023 Source:Scientists May Have Found Exactly How LSD Treats Depression Reference:Psychedelics promote plasticity by directly binding to BDNF receptor TrkB
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Misleading headline misrepresents risk when it implies airborne trichloroethylene exposure is linked to increasing risk of developing Parkinson’s when the study was based on water supply contamination at Camp Lejeune.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 18, 2023 Source:Chemical detected in the air inside Canadian homes linked to increase in developing Parkinson’s disease, says new report Reference:Risk of Parkinson Disease Among Service Members at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
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Scientists discover T-cell overactivation as a key reason why long-COVID patients experience long-term smell loss
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 3, 2023 Source:Scientists discover key reason why long-COVID patients experience long-term smell loss Reference:Persistent post–COVID-19 smell loss is associated with immune cell infiltration and altered gene expression in olfactory epithelium
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Scientists surmise why people get more colds and flu in winter but not much to sneeze at.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 7, 2022 Source:Scientists finally know why people get more colds and flu in winter Reference:Cold exposure impairs extracellular vesicle swarm–mediated nasal antiviral immunity