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*Important Notice: medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as established information.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 […]

NEW ORLEANS – Atorvastatin treatment of patients with lymphoma undergoing treatment with an anthracycline significantly cut the incidence of incident cardiac dysfunction by about two-thirds during 12 months of treatment, in a multicenter, randomized trial with 300 enrolled patients. “These data support the use of atorvastatin among patients with lymphoma being treated with anthracyclines where […]

In a recent study published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, researchers assessed the association between cardiovascular disease and transportation noise. Study: Too loud to handle?: Transportation noise and cardiovascular disease. Image Credit: bibiphoto/Shutterstock The number of studies indicating adverse health impacts as a result of traffic noise is on a steady rise, with cardiovascular […]

Black people living with dementia are less likely than their white peers to receive cognitive enhancers and other medications for dementia in the outpatient setting, preliminary data from a retrospective study show. “There have been disparities regarding the use of cognition-enhancing medications in the treatment of dementia described in the literature, and disparities in the […]

Being overweight or obese is defined as a body mass index (BMI) value exceeding 25 kg/m2. By 2035, the World Obesity Atlas predicts that over 4 billion people worldwide will be considered obese, which amounts to over 51% of the global population. Studies: World Obesity Atlas 2023. Image Credit: Fuss Sergey / Shutterstock.com Obesity and […]

Once ChatGPT made its debut, the discussion about what it will do to marketing agencies started almost immediately. There have been tons of articles, videos, and podcasts on this topic. As a result, those in the industry are getting a lot of mixed messages about the impact and use of ChatGPT for marketing purposes. If […]