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How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy

How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy

Blending personal anecdotes with hard science, an accomplished physician, researcher, and science communicator gives you the tools to stay healthy.

2023

F. Perry Wilson

F. Perry Wilson

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Surrounded by Friends, Still Lonely.

A new study identifies a social paradox afflicting emerging adults.

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Surrounded by Friends, Still Lonely.

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Ozempic… for your Brain?

Highest quality data yet suggests dramatic off-target brain effects of drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro

Apr 7

Ozempic… for your Brain?

Apr 7

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How Old Is Your Body? Stand On One Leg and Find Out

According to new research, the time you can stand on one leg is the best marker of physical aging.

Oct 23, 2024

How Old Is Your Body? Stand On One Leg and Find Out

Oct 23, 2024

A Common Antibiotic May Prevent Schizophrenia

A new study suggests doxycycline might have some unique off-target effects.

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A Common Antibiotic May Prevent Schizophrenia

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Ancient DNA Rewrites History of Napoleon’s Disastrous Russian March

The books tell you it was epidemic typhus that devastated the Grande Armée. It wasn’t.

Oct 29

Ancient DNA Rewrites History of Napoleon’s Disastrous Russian March

Oct 29

How the COVID Vaccine May Help Cure Cancer

The mRNA appears to prime the immune system to mount a response against existing tumors

Oct 22

How the COVID Vaccine May Help Cure Cancer

Oct 22

BMI is a Flawed Metric. The Fix Might Be Grip Strength

A new study shows that those with higher grip strength are protected from the complications of obesity, including death.

Oct 15

BMI is a Flawed Metric. The Fix Might Be Grip Strength

Oct 15

I Almost Paid $248 for a Custom IV Drip. Then I Read This Study

The IV “hydration spa” industry is woefully, disturbingly unregulated.

Oct 6

I Almost Paid $248 for a Custom IV Drip. Then I Read This Study

Oct 6

Is the Rise of Cancer in Young People… Fake?

A new study suggests we may be catching disease that would never matter. But I have my doubts.

Oct 1

Is the Rise of Cancer in Young People… Fake?

Oct 1

Supplement Labels Are Lying To Us

“Supports Heart Function” doesn’t mean what we think it means.

Sep 23

Supplement Labels Are Lying To Us

Sep 23

F. Perry Wilson, MD

F. Perry Wilson, MD

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Medicine, science, statistics. Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale. Host of "Impact Factor" on Medscape.com.

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