Back by popular demand, our mythbusting team takes looks at two new health topics making headlines and compares popular beliefs to the latest evidence:
- Is exercise as effective as other treatments to help depression?
- Meta-analysis: https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-075847
- Do tattoos cause lymphoma?
- Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00228-1/fulltext
- Plus a discussion on correlation vs. causation
Guest: Dr. Ankita Sagar
System Vice President for Clinical Standards and Variation Reduction, Physician Enterprise and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Creighton University
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