I wrote back in January about the large numbers of studies that are publicized in the media that doctors and patients are better off ignoring. I usually try not to give these studies any attention, but this week a study got so much media coverage that I felt I had to tell you all to ignore it.
This study in the journal Circulation
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Vitamin C Can Prevent the Common Cold in Extreme Conditions
The Cochrane Reviews are systematic rigorous reviews of the medical literature on medical therapies. Because of the objective and comprehensive methods they use for finding all relevant studies and categorizing them by quality, they are regarded as one of the gospels of evidence based medicine.
Recently the Cochrane Reviews published this review of the medical literature on vitamin C for the prevention and treatment of ...
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Sorrowful About Selenium
This week another dietary supplement moves from the "not proven to have any benefits" column to the "potentially harmful" column. A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine which was reported in this CNN article is the largest study yet to look at the effects of selenium on the dev...
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Discomfort of Air Passengers Relates to Cabin Pressure
This week's New England Journal of Medicine published a study funded by Boeing which has received much media attention, including this Washington Post article.
The study sought to reveal the effects on passengers of different cabin pressures during prolonged flights. The authors hoped to find...
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