by John McMillan | Apr 24, 2026 | Medical Research
Phil Starks, Tufts University The first time the placebo effect really got under my skin was when I read that roughly one-third of people with irritable bowel syndrome improve on placebo treatments alone. Usually this statistic is presented as a fascinating quirk of...
by John McMillan | Apr 24, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philip McMillan, John McMillan When Michaela Peterson sat down to record her most recent update about her father, she was 25 weeks pregnant and visibly exhausted. For months she had watched Jordan Peterson, the Canadian clinical psychologist best known for his...
by John McMillan | Apr 17, 2026 | Cancer
Laurence Roope, University of Oxford; Fiorella Parra-Mujica, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Philip Clarke, University of Oxford Imagine a stark choice. You can save one person who is likely to live another 30 years. Or you can save several people who may each live...
by John McMillan | Apr 17, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philip McMillan, John McMillan When Shane Warne died suddenly in a Thai hotel room in March 2022 at the age of 52, the world lost one of cricket’s most gifted performers. Within hours, two competing explanations emerged. The official medical finding pointed...
by John McMillan | Apr 10, 2026 | Cancer
Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University Marriage, it turns out, may come with a side‑effect no one puts in the vows: people who have been married seem less likely to develop cancer than those who have never married at all. That is the provocative finding from a...
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