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Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their
Jul 26, 2019 · Of all the sites with red ratings, 37% publish false or unfounded health claims. These sites accounted for more than 49 million engagements (shares, likes, comments, etc.) on social media in the ...
Medical errors and accidents: an ongoing threat to health| STAT
Aug 4, 2021 · A meta-analysis of such studies concluded that the average annual death rate from such errors in the first decade of the 2000s was in the neighborhood of 250,000. That’s more than enough to make ...
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New trial data shows a combo of two drugs can help treat meth
Jan 13, 2021 · In a clinical trial, the researchers reported Wednesday, 13.6% of participants treated with the two drugs had repeated urine tests free of methamphetamine, compared to just 2.5% of those who were ...
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There's no autism epidemic. It's an autism diagnosis epidemic - STAT
Feb 10, 2022 · No. The increase in the autism rate recently reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention represent an autism diagnosis epidemic. Writing in the weekly journal MMWR, CDC researchers ...
Under new rules, patients can now access all their health ... - STAT
Oct 6, 2022 · The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders, can rally around a new turning point, October 6, 2022 — the day they got their health data back. Under ...
Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years - STAT
Nov 13, 2023 · The picture is especially concerning for men, whose life expectancy is now 73.2 years, compared with women’s 79.1.This 5.9 year gap is the widest between the two genders since 1996. “Across ...
The simple reason for the increase in autism diagnosis | STAT
Mar 23, 2023 · There is no “epidemic of autism.”. Instead, what we face is an epidemic of need. The main reason we are finding more autism is simple: Clinicians are getting better at spotting what was always ...
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