Whitney McKnight

3 days ago | medscape.com | Whitney McKnight

Cannabis use in older adults is up, according to researchers who used a national survey database to study emergent patterns in older adult use of the substance. Their results were published online in JAMA Internal Medicine. After noting an upward trend in seniors using cannabis — from 1.0% in 2005 to 4.2% in 2018— a group of investigators led by Benjamin H.

4 days ago | medscape.com | Whitney McKnight

Often citing concerns about side effects, Gen Z women (born between 1997 and 2012), increasingly are shunning evidence-based family planning and reproductive health counsel, turning instead to advice from social media influencers and fertility tracking apps — with mixed results — according to experts. Federal data published in 2020, the most recent data currently available, reported that only about 14% of women in the United States used oral contraception.

5 days ago | documental.substack.com | Whitney McKnight

This is a follow-up to my almost off-hand comments about DOGE last night. Because the media and global “leaders” have created a hall of mirrors that I avoid entering it most of the time. I read Carole Cadwalladr this afternoon, and realized it’s the same as it ever was. DOGE might be defunct, but no one in government ever goes away once they’ve been accommodated. Not really. Yet, again, gaslighting. DOGE was supposed to fix waste and bloat by editing the government.

5 days ago | documental.substack.com | Whitney McKnight

Greetings. My apologies for mistreating you by ghosting the joint. I turned off paid subs, though, so I hope that was helpful. I have been so wrapped up in running my newspaper, I’ve dropped a few balls in the juggle. I also have a second project I will tell you about toward the end of this post. My newspaper lives online, and is called The Edge. It has been a success almost right out of the gate, to my dismay, frankly.

1 month ago | medscape.com | Whitney McKnight

Whether clinicians are accurately diagnosing thyroid disease was at issue for Chinese researchers who demonstrated that adding subgroup differences according to age, sex, or race when testing for thyroid disease reduced by half the number of persons eligible for L-thyroxine, a treatment for hypothyroidism. It is the first study to examine the effect of combined age, sex, and race on the diagnosis of thyroid diseases, the authors wrote. The results were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.