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JAMA Study Confirms Progesterone-Only Hormonal Birth Control Increases Breast Cancer Risk by Up to 21% women who took birth control that contains only one hormone, a form of progesterone called desogestrel, were at a 21% increased risk of developing breast cancer, whereas those…


VA study showed an overall 14% reduction in skin cancer risk after supplementation with nicotinamide, and a 54% risk reduction if started after the first skin cancer (JAMA)


Psoriasis patients taking GLP-1 had a 78% decrease in death rate and a 44% decrease in heart attacks and strikes. Also a 65% lower risk of alcohol abuse and 50% lower risk of substance abuse. (2025 EADV)


Daily aspirin can reduce by 55% the risk of colon cancer recurrence in patients whose cancer is driven by genetic mutation. NEJM


AI developers (@xAI @OpenAI @GoogleAI @AnthropicAI): Internet training data skews negative—complaints & scandals dominate, amplifying biases. Why not incorporate trillions of positive family interactions (loving guidance teaching right/wrong) to balance? This real-world…


Erythritol, a popular sugar substitute linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk (The non-nutritive sweetener erythritol adversely affects brain microvascular endothelial cell function. Journal of Applied Physiology, 2025; 138 (6): 1571 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00276.2025)


Article in Nature: Inhibition of IL-11 signalling extends mammalian healthspan and lifespan Vol632 pp157-165 August 1, 2024 Open access


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Sleeping with artificial light at night associated with weight gain in women Park YMM, White AJ, Jackson CL, Weinberg CR, Sandler DP. 2019. Association of exposure to artificial light at night while sleeping with risk of obesity in women. JAMA Intern Med; doi: 10.1001/jama


A chemical commonly found in broccoli sprouts -- sulforaphane -- may one day be used to curb the side effects of antipsychotic medicines for schizophrenia, according to multiple studies. The sulforaphane helped regulate levels of the chemical glutamate.


Exercise Triggers Fat to Release Protein that Improves Glucose Tolerance TGF-β2 is an exercise-induced adipokine that regulates glucose and fatty acid metabolism. Nature metabolism


Commonly used antipsychotic drug Pimozide could offer a new treatment approach to the hardest-to-treat form of #breastcancer, and potentially for #lungcancer:


The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. -William Osler


Vegetarian diet reduces heart disease death risk by 40%


The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which causes mono, has been linked with an increased risk of seven other disease including IBD, lupus and diabetes.


Memories have been transferred from one snail to another using RNA, according to findings published in eNeuro. Researchers say they got defensive reactions from snails who hadn't been trained to react to mild shocks after transferring RNA from snails that had had the training


Hydrochlorothiazide and Skin Cancer High use of HCTZ (≥ 50,000 mg) increased the odds ratios (ORs) of BCC and cSCC by 1.29 and 3.98, respectively. Patients with the highest HCTZ exposure (> 200,000 mg) showed increased ORs of 1.54 (BCC) and 7.38 (SCC)


Eating oily fish and fresh legumes delays the onset of natural menopause by around 3 years,But consuming refined pasta and rice was linked to an earlier natural menopause by 1.5 years,


Frequent Saunas Linked to Reduced Stroke Risk (May 2 online in Neurology) when compared to participants who had one sauna session per week, individuals who took four to seven saunas per week had a 61% reduced risk for stroke


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