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Vampire facials' body of evidence is anemic

5 Jan 2024

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette.

What a Journal Impact Factor Is and Isn’t

5 Jan 2024

You may have heard of the impact factor. It is a number given to an academic journal (think Nature or The New England Journal of Medicine) which is often erroneously used a proxy for how good the...

Skeletons in the Closet

3 Jan 2024

Dr. David Franklin’s conscience was bothering him. At first, the job he had secured in 1996 with Parke-Davis, a division of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company, seemed ideal. Armed with a PhD...

Placebos are harmless, right? Not always

22 Dec 2023

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette....

What is next in the evolution of GLP-1-based therapies for diabetes and obesity?

15 Dec 2023

The first glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)-based therapeutic was approved by Health Canada in 2011 for the treatment of hyperglycemia in patients with Type 2 diabetes. Little was it suspected at...

Placebo effect is real, and complicated

8 Dec 2023

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette.

Beneath the CBD Hype Lies a Lot of Uncertainty

1 Dec 2023

Searching for CBD on the website of the SQDC returns nearly 1,000 search results. The SQDC is the Quebec-government-owned corporation responsible for selling recreational cannabis to the people....

Anesthetic Gases Can Do More Than Put You to Sleep

30 Nov 2023

Can you imagine a tooth being extracted without an anesthetic? Or, worse, a limb being amputated? A horrific thought! Yet that was what patients had to contend with until the mid 19th century when...

Athletes, Vaccines and Cardiac Deaths

24 Nov 2023

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette....

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