Tincture Takeaways

Here’s this week’s collection of some of the most interesting health, medicine, longevity and science articles that Tincture founder Jordan Shlain and former editor Kim Bellard thought you should see.

Jordan’s Takeaways

Longevity update: exercise. Vigorous physical activity, incident heart disease, and cancer: how little is enough?

Where did COVID come from? A riveting read. COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab

Cognitive performance update. Computerized Games versus Crosswords Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Chemical Hair Straighteners — Uterine cancer? Researchers have found a link between chemical straighteners and uterine cancer

Brain longevity update. Blood pressure lowering and prevention of dementia: an individual patient data meta-analysis

Kim’s Takeaways

AMEN! A New Category of “Never Events” — Ending Harmful Hospital Policies

Hmm. It’s not just severity — the types of Covid symptoms you get depend on the vaccines you’ve received, new data says

Abortion laws, like elections, have consequences. OB-GYN Residency Programs Face Tough Choice on Abortion Training

Deserves more study. Eliminating breast surgery for invasive breast cancer in exceptional responders to neoadjuvant systemic therapy: a multicentre, single-arm, phase 2 trial

Some good news. US cancer death rates across all age groups continue on downward trend, new study shows

You might also be interested in this from Kim: Art Is in the Eye of the Computer