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Homeopathy is scientifically implausible

12 Jan 2024

This article was first published in the Montreal Gazette.

What a Journal Impact Factor Is and Isn鈥檛

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...

Vampire facials' body of evidence is anemic

5 Jan 2024

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette.

Skeletons in the Closet

3 Jan 2024

Dr. David Franklin鈥檚 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聽century when...

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