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The word is definitely out that alcohol should be avoided in pregnancy. 90% of women now know drinking in pregnancy isn't safe, up from 82% last year. But reported rates of drinking while pregnant are, broadly, increasing. 🧵

Your morning coffee either raises your LDL cholesterol or does nothing to it, and the single variable that decides is whether you poured it through a paper filter. That's one of the odder findings in the new AHA scientific statement on caffeine and the heart. 🧵

They sampled blood straight from the coronary arteries of people mid-heart-attack. 84% had detectable microplastics. In people with clean coronaries, it was 32%. 🧵

A team @Yale invented a fake patient and had him try to buy GLP-1 drugs on 49 different websites. 45 of them wrote him a prescription. A couple in under five minutes. 🧵

Every doctor knows the feeling. Something pops up in the chart and you think, oh shit, I almost missed that. A drug interaction, an allergy, a lab you didn't notice. A new study asks whether AI can generate those moments on purpose. 🧵

Full Body Scans are having a moment, thanks to Midjourney's new submerged ultrasound thing. So this week, @profemilyoster and I took a deep dive into the actual data. The false positives, the true positives, incidentalomas, overdiagnosis. All on the Wellness, Actually podcast: buff.ly/fcrXekR

What's the deal with full body scans?Podcast Episode · Wellness, Actually with Emily Oster & Perry Wilson, MD · June 25 · 1h 3mbuff.ly