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It’s Oscars weekend, so for our 2nd annual Meddy Awards — our very self-congratulatory and very tongue-in-cheek version of the Oscars — we celebrate outstanding medical performances and events in motion pictures throughout history. Without further ado (or comedy skits or musical numbers or extended tributes or commercials), the Meddys go to… Best Depiction of […]

An international team of researchers has received $3 million to support an ambitious effort to understand how early gut development can profoundly shape children’s health throughout life. The funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will allow scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, University of Mississippi Medical Center and Pakistan’s […]

Already commonly used in combination for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), macitentan and tadalafil are safe and effective in a fixed-dose combination even as first-line therapy, according to a randomized multicenter comparative trial. The fixed-dose combination “led to a highly significant and marked improvement in pulmonary vascular resistance when compared to macitentan and […]

The nitrate ingested over the course of a person’s adult lifetime through the consumption of tap water and bottled water could be a risk factor for prostate cancer, particularly in the case of aggressive tumors and in younger men. This is the conclusion of a study conducted in Spain and led by the Barcelona Institute […]

AI will not fundamentally change your role as a Fractional CMO, despite what the masterminds and gurus are selling. Are You Scared of AI? This feels like January of 2020, when the pandemic was just starting to get some attention. I remember going to my gym in Fishtown, Philadelphia and talking with the owner about […]

Sales of a bestselling health book by a high-profile University of Southern California oncologist have been suspended because of dozens of instances of plagiarism. The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this week that it identified at least 95 instances of plagiarism by author David B. Agus, MD, in The Book of Animal Secrets: Nature’s Lessons […]

In a recent study published in Nutrients, researchers performed secondary analyzes of the Walnuts and Healthy Aging study (WAHA) data, a two-year prospective, randomized controlled trial (RCT) carried out among the 63 to 79-year-olds of Loma Linda University (LLU) in California, United States of America (USA) and Barcelona in Spain, between 2014 and 2016. Study: […]

Email is almost 40 times better at acquiring new customers than Facebook and Twitter. But only if you send the right emails, to the right people, at the right time. There are countless ways to write copy that converts, but only one way to do it consistently: by using a framework. The Power of a […]

Patients with degenerative mitral valve (MV) regurgitation that calls for surgery may, for the most part, safely choose either a standard procedure requiring a midline sternotomy or one performed through a mini-thoracotomy, suggests a randomized comparison of the two techniques. Still, the minimally invasive approach showed some advantages in the study. Patients’ quality of recovery […]

*Important Notice: medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as established information. In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers examined predictors for hospitalization due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections to develop a clinical model […]