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As medicine uses more and more complex tools to treat illness, I worry that these newer interventions will be seen as impenetrable black boxes. A pill is easy to understand, but gene therapy?...
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...
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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...
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The directors and producer behind Died Suddenly, the viral 鈥渄ocumentary鈥� that tried to convince us that the COVID-19 vaccines were felling people by creating fibrous clots, are at it again. Their...
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