I used to think there was no question about this. Induction was the prologue to a long, hard labor that often wouldn’t go…
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Bias Long Overdue: Is the Question of Induction of Labor and Cesarean Section Settled?Read more
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Evidence Alzheimer Disease: How Soon Would You Want To Know?Read more
Have you been forgetful lately? Any difficulty concentrating? Trouble recalling names? Answer “yes” to even one question like that…
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Evidence Is a Baby Aspirin a Day the New Apple?Read more
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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Bias Resveratrol Hangover: Waking Up After Hypothesis BingeingRead more
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-PongRead more
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)Read more
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 MunyikwaRead more
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!)Read more
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 BlackheadsRead more
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 memoRead more
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…