A recent report from the Imperial College of London modeled three scenarios for how the COVID-19 pandemic could unfold. The model’s results showcase starkly different outcomes the United States, and the world, could face depending on how officials react to the...
Health Versus Hype Project: January’s Most Over- and Under-Hyped Medical Research Studies Americans rely on the news media to accurately report on new health-related research. But the media often gives credence to dubious or inconclusive studies while ignoring...
A team led by Dr. David Ludwig from Boston Children’s Hospital that reviewed diet trials found that 86% of such studies “lacked rigor” and were prone to bias. Ludwig adds that diet research is also severely underfunded. Nathan Gray filed this report in NUTRA: When the...
The costs of diet-related diseases are rising fast but Washington is still not alarmed enough to open the purse strings for federal nutrition research. Helena Bottemiller Evich and Catherine Boudreau filed this report for Politico: A POLITICO review of federal budget...
Several studies, including a widely reported-on study published recently in the International Journal of Cancer, have examined the link between hair dye and cancer. But the media members who cover these studies do not always gleam the truth from naked rows of numbers...
A data-centered approach is seen as the future of diabetes diagnosis and treatment. Akansh Khurana filed this report in BioSpectrum: Once prediabetes progresses to diabetes, it leads to serious complications and becomes much harder to control. Screening and awareness...