Impact Factor with F. Perry Wilson

• A Cash Giveaway to Improve Health   We can't just give cash to low-income folks instead of food to improve their health, can we? That's just what these researchers did.
  Medscape, July 22, 2024
• Does This 'Stem Cell' Therapy Contain Any Actual Stem Cells?   Dr F. Perry Wilson explains why — at the moment — we have reason to be skeptical about stem cell therapies marketed for commonplace aches and pains.
  Medscape, July 16, 2024
• Mounjaro Beats Ozempic, So Why Isn't It More Popular?   Effectiveness isn't the only factor determining choice of GLP-1 receptor agonist for weight loss.
  Medscape, July 08, 2024
• How Facial Temperature Reveals Age and Disease Find out why Dr F. Perry Wilson says that the medical tricorder perhaps wasn't as fanciful as it seemed when it was used by Dr Beverly Crusher on "Star Trek."
  Medscape, July 02, 2024
• The Unintended Consequences of the Texas 'Heartbeat' Law   An increase in neonatal and infant mortality followed the enactment of a state law that restricts abortion due to congenital anomalies.
  Medscape, June 24, 2024
• We Won't Solve Long COVID Until We Decide What It Is   Is a slow recovery from COVID-19 the lingering effects of a bad infection or the start of a new syndrome?
  Medscape, June 18, 2024
• First Generation to Have More Cancer Than Their Parents   But how worried should we be? Dr F Perry Wilson breaks it all down.
  Medscape, June 11, 2024
• Inpatient Mortality Is Not a Great Way to Judge Hospitals   Public reporting of sepsis outcomes, including hospital deaths, isn't telling the whole story.
  Medscape, June 03, 2024
• In the Future, a Robot Intensivist May Save Your Life Dr Wilson comments on a unique closed-loop system that can resuscitate and stabilize trauma patients during transport to a higher level of care.
  Medscape, May 29, 2024
• Fluoride, Water, and Kids' Brains: It's Complicated   Is water fluoridation good or bad? Dr F. Perry Wilson explains why a recent study fails to answer this question.
  Medscape, May 20, 2024
• Why Cardiac Biomarkers Don't Help Predict Heart Disease   Perry Wilson delves into the reasons that adding cardiac biomarkers to conventional risk factors didn't improve the ability to predict cardiovascular disease.
  Medscape, May 14, 2024
• It Would Be Nice if Olive Oil Really Did Prevent Dementia   Alas, nutritional epidemiology studies! Dr F. Perry Wilson shares his level of trust in new data about olive oil consumption and dementia-related death.
  Medscape, May 07, 2024
• Intermittent Fasting + HIIT: Fitness Fad or Fix?   The combination of two challenging lifestyle choices appears to be more effective than either alone, according to a new study.
  Medscape, May 01, 2024
• Are Women Better Doctors Than Men?   Investigators took a unique approach to try to answer this age-old question in medicine.
  Medscape, April 22, 2024
• 'Difficult Patient': Stigmatizing Words and Medical Error   In a hospital study, the use of certain words and language patterns in the medical record was linked with diagnostic errors. Dr F Perry Wilson comments.
  Medscape, April 15, 2024
• A Banned Chemical That Is Still Causing Cancer   This is one time when being at the top of the food chain is not advantageous.
  Medscape, April 01, 2024
• A Solar Eclipse Is a Bad Omen....For Drivers   Millions may hit the road to view this year's total solar eclipse. Dr F Perry Wilson comments on a study of traffic fatalities linked to the 2017 event.
  Medscape, March 25, 2024
• The Most Extensive Study Yet of 'Havana Syndrome' Turns Up… Nada?   The people with this mysterious group of symptoms are suffering, but from what? Two new studies try to find the answer.
  Medscape, March 19, 2024
• Vitamin D Supplements May Be a Double-Edged Sword   Dr F. Perry Wilson comments on a new analysis showing different effects of vitamin D and calcium supplementation on cancer and cardiovascular mortality.
  Medscape, March 12, 2024
• SARS CoV-2 Is a Very Weird Virus   It appears that SARS-CoV-2 isn't just another nasty respiratory virus, but one that affects the body in ways we haven't seen before.
  Medscape, March 04, 2024