News & Articles By Russel Davis
11/27/2017
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By Russel Davis
It’s all propaganda: New research suggests media coverage about disease outbreaks is designed to control what you think and remember about the disease
A study published in the journal Psychological Science, the flagship publication of the Association for Psychological Science, reveals that mass media coverage and personal anxiety influence people about the facts they both remember and forget during a disease outbreak. “The starting point for our study was the exaggerated coverage of Ebola in 2014 despite the absence of any serious […]
03/27/2017
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By Russel Davis
STATINS WARNING: Cholesterol-lowering drug found to raise risk of diabetes by 50 percent in older women
Elderly women who take statins have an increased risk of developing type-2 diabetes, an Australian study found. Researchers at the University of Queensland examined more than 8,000 elderly female pensioners and found that those who took the cholesterol-lowering drug had a 33% increased risk of diabetes. The experts also found that taking higher doses of statins further […]
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