Covid-19: Negligence by Experts

Ice not recommended for soft tissue injury treatment

Higher risk of COVID-19 death in older women with low estrogen.A large observational study has detected a link between increased levels of the hormone estrogen in older women & a reduced risk of dying from COVID-19

Third of first year university students have moderate to severe depression/anxiety

Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?

On Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines

Attitudes towards cannabis products for medicinal use need to change with much greater appropriate use of such products to help alleviate patients’ pain

We jumped from planes without parachutes (and lived to tell the tale)

There is an inherent tension in approving drugs: do we want to expand access to patients sooner, or do we want to more robustly confirm the safety profile of the new drug? A new paper analyzes this problem and finds the FDA currently favors a speedy review.

Bing search engine can predict, with very low false positive rates, people who may have pancreatic cancer based only on their search history.

Seeing human lives in spreadsheets: The work of Hans Rosling

Dying of cancer is the best death

Moderate alcohol intake of at least five units every week is linked to poorer sperm quality in otherwise healthy young men, suggests research: The higher the weekly tally of units…