Weight Loss, Even Intentional Weight Loss, Associated with Cancer
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It's Official: Vitamin Supplements Don't Work
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A huge new study shows vitamin supplements have essentially no ability to prevent cancer or cardiovascular disease.
Read MoreBariatric Surgery Might Reduce Cancer Risk More than Quitting Smoking
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A new study suggests an impressive reduction in cancer death after bariatric surgery, but it is not the final word.
Read MoreVitamin D, Fish Oil Don't Prevent Kidney Disease in Diabetes
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The nationwide study tells us we should be looking outside of the supplement aisle when it comes to treating diabetes.
Read MoreMusic Therapy For Autism Spectrum Disorder: Disappointing News
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A study appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that improvisational music therapy did not improve outcomes in kids with autism. But was it the intervention that didn't work, or the trial itself? For the video version, click here.
Read MoreReducing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption, One Affluent County at a Time
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Appearing in JAMA Internal Medicine, a study demonstrates that a multi-pronged marketing and community outreach campaign successfully reduced the purchasing of sugar-sweetened beverages in Howard County, Maryland. But is this really a sweet deal? For the video version, click here.
Read MoreDo End-of-Rotation "Hand-Offs" Lead to Patient Deaths?
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A study appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association links end-of-rotation resident "handoffs" with increased mortality among hospitalized patients. But is this effect real, or just a product of some subtle confounders? For the video version, click here.
Read MoreInterpreting the "Population Attributable Fraction" or What Percent of Cancer Deaths are Due to Smoking?
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An article appearing in JAMA Internal Medicine quantifies the Population Attributable Fraction for smoking's relationship to various cancers on a state-by-state level. But what is the PAF? And how do we interpret it? For the video version, click here.
Read MoreThe Darkish Underbelly of Peer Review
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A research letter appearing in JAMA sheds light on an aspect of scientific peer-review that we often ignore. Reviewers are people too. For the video, click here.
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