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Placebo effect can be found in a cup of coffee
Plus: Humble shopping carts become diagnostic tools and dirty dentures become homes for respiratory pathogens.
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Physician suicide roundtable: 8 important initiatives that can help
We ask, how full is your gas tank? Select 1 to 5 (Empty to Full). If they flag low, they receive a follow-up.
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Harvard medical school sued over stolen body part scandal
The indictment alleges that from 2018 through August 2022, Harvard morgue manager Cedric Lodge stole dissected portions of donated cadavers,...
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Low-calorie tastes sweeter with a little salt
Plus: Indiana loses its biggest Butt, and sugarless sweeteners lose the aftertaste.
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The road to weight loss is paved with collusion and sabotage
Plus: Taiwanese mosquitoes face a robotic foe, and surgical knots face the cold eye of physics.
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WHO advises against nonsugar sweeteners for weight control
“Replacing free sugars with NSS does not help with weight control in the long term. People need to consider other ways to reduce free sugars...
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The enemy of carcinogenic fumes is my friendly begonia
Also: Driving the gastrointestinal highway and pulling the plug on an unsupervised chatbot.
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Scientists discover variants, therapy for disabling pansclerotic morphea
The JAK inhibitor ruxolitinib dramatically improved wound healing and rashes in patients with the very rare disorder.
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Ancient plague, cyclical pandemics … history lesson?
Plus: AI detects invisible concussions and a janitor does more than clean.
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Multiple successive biologic to biosimilar switches deemed safe and effective
Triple switching from infliximab biologic to biosimilar for IBD found no new safety or efficacy concerns.
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The weird world of hydrogels: How they’ll change health care
“As people develop new hydrogels that more closely match the tissues in our body, we’ll be able to treat a whole host of ailments we couldn’t...