His first big clue came when people started hemorrhaging after chewing gum. Lawrence Craven did tonsil and adenoid surgery in his…
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Evidence Is a Baby Aspirin a Day the New Apple?
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Bias Resveratrol Hangover: Waking Up After Hypothesis Bingeing
Outbreaks of science myth-busting can be a bit of a puzzlement. The science behind a popular headline-maker might be a tottering house…
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Bias A Viewer’s Guide to Mammography Evidence Ping-Pong
You could get a very sore neck watching all the claims and counter-claims about mammography zing back and forth. It’s like a…
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Black History Month Vulnerability as strength: Thoughts on changing medicine’s hidden curriculum (Guest Post)
Guest post by Michelle Munyikwa I recently read this article in Health Affairs regarding the effects of the hidden…
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Black History Month “How is it that life gets under our skin?” Introducing Michelle Munyikwa
There don’t seem to be all that many PhD anthropologists who are also physicians. It’s a long, daunting road to get there…
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Evidence The Winter Sneeze – Hand, Tissue or Dracula Style? (Gesundheit!)
When I was a kid from the wrong side of the tracks, wiping your nose on your clothes was a…
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Evidence Blemish: The Truth About Blackheads
Some old wives’ and doctors’ tales are pretty harmless. Behind the myths about blackheads and acne, though, it gets very ugly. And…
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Evidence Baby’s due, but might not have gotten the memo
It’s becoming a spectacle of Diana-esque proportions. I can’t quite get my head around the fact that there is a ‘Royal Baby…