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InShapetoday's headline is that the “FDA announced that vaccines are causing autism” I will spare you the web address link because this level of disingenuous misinformation may be contagious. Here is the subheadline:

We need more information about depression, both to have a better understanding of the causes and exploration of new therapeutics. 

While the new AHA guidelines garnered the bulk of the headlines, there was an abstract entitled Cardiovascular Risk Stratification Using Off-the-Shelf Wearables and a Multi-Task Deep

It's the middle of November and it's time to move "get a flu shot" straight up to the top of the to-do list if you haven't already. There is no more procrastinating. 

In an effort to combat patient non-compliance with medications, the FDA just approved the first pill with an ingestible tracking sensor.

Researchers studying brain trauma are calling it a breakthrough. And the breakthrough they're reporting is the ability to diagnose CTE, a severe degenerative brain disease, in those who are still alive.

According to recent provisional data provided by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), there has been a 34 percent increase in the number of val

Ask anyone who makes a great apple pie and they will tell you that the secret is in the apples. My apple pie would never have a combination other than half Macintosh, half Granny Smith.

A small confession, I feel evolution has solved many of the problems and decision making we do in beautiful ways. When I see an article that supports my belief, I read and share it where I can. Call it curator’s bias.

At this point, the cycle of press releases disguised as health journalism has become disappointingly predictable.