Ozempic Killed Diet and Exercise: It’s seeming like patients on GLP-1 drugs don’t benefit a lot from explicit lifestyle interventions in terms of weight loss - although there may be other health benefits of doing them.
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2024-12-17
2024-12-11
Congressional Republicans conclude SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab leak: Whatever the truth of the matter is, it’s obvious that the process that led to this particular report was a total abuse of science.
2024-11-15
The Sanewashing of RFK Jr.: Let’s not forget that this guy has some very bizarre (and dangerous) ideas.
2024-11-13
Before making clinical trials faster, let’s first agree on what they are: What’s needed for clinical trials designed to get new drugs onto the market is in tension with what’s needed for those designed to test interventions already in use.
2024-11-12
‘Five to ten seconds appears to be optimal’: the science behind hugs: Why hugs are good.
2024-11-11
‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?: Introducing ‘avatar therapy’ - where patients with psychosis interact with digital incarnations of the hallucinatory voices that plague them.
2024-10-21
What is genomic prediction and can embryos really be ‘screened for IQ’?: Even if it wasn’t a terrible idea, it’s not clear that we know how to do it effectively.
2024-10-19: New Scientist Live show 2024 books list
2024-10-15
Induction chemotherapy followed by standard chemoradiotherapy versus standard chemoradiotherapy alone in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer: Research finds that a bout of chemotherapy before the standard chemoradiotherapy reduces deaths from, and recurrence of, cervical cancer.
2024-10-13: New Scientist Live talks 2024
2024-10-04
New Scientist Live: The “festival of ideas and discoveries” is back in London later this month.
2024-09-29: How unique is Covid-19?
2024-09-27
Reducing Food Cravings: Pratik shares 4 things that research suggests can diminish food cravings: visualising nature, diverting your focus, physical creativity and (certain?) smells.
2024-09-23
Two New Studies Point to Diabetes from COVID: Getting Covid may be a risk factor for developing diabetes, whilst having diabetes is a risk factor for getting severe Covid symptoms.
2024-09-23: A new study finds 3,601 of the more-than-14,000 chemicals known to be used to store, process, …
2024-09-18
‘Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?': A less widely-known Milgram experiment - asking someone to let you have their subway seat.
2024-09-10: Recent research provides some (weak) evidence that labelling menu items with calories might cause harm to some
2024-09-06: A friend gets in touch to let me know that it’s not necessarily scary AI cyber-brains that are …
2024-09-03: Research suggests that GLP-1 pharmaceuticals can prevent Covid-19 deaths
2024-08-26: The US Food and Drug Administration approved new vaccines for Covid-19 last week. The recommendation …
2024-06-17: Being thin is (in part) a genetic trait
2024-05-29: The study behind the trial that Novo Nordisk stopped early last year for efficacy reasons has been …
2024-05-21: The randomizr package for R (and apparently Stata) provides some nice simple functions to help …
2024-05-17: The excellent ConscienHealth blog, writing about a fierce debate in the world of nutrition science, …
2024-05-10: Hundreds of IPCC scientists think we'll being living in an environmental semi-dystopia by the end of the century