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Berberine. Don鈥檛 swallow the hype. Or the pill.

22 Jun 2023

Are you kidding me? 鈥淣ature鈥檚 Ozempic"? Really? That message is spreading like wildfire on TikTok about berberine, a compound found in plants such as barberry, golden seal and meadow rue that have...

A Potential Treatment To Prevent Long COVID

16 Jun 2023

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

How to Have Twins with Different Fathers

16 Jun 2023

Yes, it is possible to have twins with different biological fathers. The scientific term for this anomaly is 鈥渉eteropaternal superfecundation,鈥 and it鈥檚 super cool. 鈥淗eteropaternal鈥 signifies...

The White Lie at the Heart of Vaccine History

9 Jun 2023

Stop me if you鈥檝e heard this one before. Dr. Edward Jenner invented vaccines because of an observation he and he alone made. You see, milkmaids were renowned for their beauty. At a time when...

Fake Drugs, Real Problems

31 May 2023

We are drowning in fraud. Simply defined, fraud is intentional deception, usually for monetary gain. We have become used to robo-calls telling us that we have been subjected to a tax audit and had...

What the 鈥淏ig Pharma鈥 Accusation Gets Right (and Wrong) About the Drug Industry

26 May 2023

Grievances against the pharmaceutical industry are common in new media spaces. Influencers on Instagram tell us to shun drugs and embrace the 鈥渘atural.鈥 Diatribes are shared on Facebook against the...

Saffron for Teenage Moodiness? The Evidence Is Immature

19 May 2023

鈥淐linically proven鈥 is a very malleable term. What exactly does it mean for an intervention to have been clinically proven to work? In the world of dietary supplements, the veracity of this phrase...

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