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Publication bias skews efficacy of therapy

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http://www.vox.com/2015/10/5/9451689/benefits-of-psychotherapy It seems this is a big problem in the research around treatments for depression. In 2008, researchers looked at studies on antidepressants for a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine. They found that the medicine’s benefits had been exaggerated in the scientific literature because of publication bias. For a new study in…

Sugar & Oxytocin

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This is what happens to your body when you eat sugar https://t.co/TYlOtxJUkb — TIME Health (@TIMEHealth) October 27, 2015 The most powerful effects, however, aren’t on our bodies. They’re on our brains. In one study, researchers measured the levels of oxytocin, a feel-good hormone that helps us feel satiated, in the brains of rats. When…

Measles outbreak in Waikato linked to Wakefield paper

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A discredited claim that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism and bowel disease could be the reason for the spread of measles in the latest outbreak, a health official says. The 1998 research paper by former British doctor Andrew Wakefield claimed a link between the vaccine and the appearance of autism and…

Victim-blaming indecent assaulter gets community detention after reparation offer

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Victim-blaming indecent assaulter gets community detention after reparation offer http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/81065973/victimblaming-indecent-assaulter-gets-community-detention-after-reparation-offer A victim-blaming man, whose wife ran a smear campaign against a woman he indecently assaulted while drunkenly trying to score with her, has avoided prison and home detention partly because he offered to pay reparation to his victim. Judge Gerard Lynch said Bruce Leslie Weber…