This information is over 2 years old. Information was current at time of publication.{"id":10039,"date":"2017-04-20T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=10039"},"modified":"2017-05-03T07:56:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:56:44","slug":"exciting-medical-news-should-you-believe-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/exciting-medical-news-should-you-believe-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Medical News! Should You Believe It or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like every day in the news you hear about new scientific research results. What was okay to eat yesterday is not good for you today. It\u2019s the same story with vitamins, one day you can\u2019t take too much of a certain vitamin, and the next day that same dose could harm you. What about medicine\u2026will that pill really help? Every day we are bombarded with medical news and it\u2019s getting harder and harder to sort the good from the bad.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10040 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2017\/04\/logo.png\" alt=\"NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health\" width=\"328\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2017\/04\/logo.png 328w, https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2017\/04\/logo-300x73.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s a person to do? Well, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nccih.nih.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NIH Center for Complementary and Integrative Health<\/a>, created a website, <a href=\"https:\/\/nccih.nih.gov\/health\/know-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know the Science<\/a>, to help you understand the basics of complicated scientific topics.<\/p>\n<p>On this website, you\u2019ll find these easy to understand, helpful tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interactive Modules\n<ul>\n<li>Know the Science: 9 Questions To Help You Make Sense of Health Research<\/li>\n<li>Know the Science: How Medications and Supplements Can Interact<\/li>\n<li>Know the Science: The Facts About Health News Stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Know, Discover, Get Informed: Videos\n<ul>\n<li>What Is a Placebo? Q and A with Ted Kaptchuk<\/li>\n<li>Understanding Risk\u2014Drs. Groopman and Hartzband<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Links to other websites\n<ul>\n<li>Understanding Medical Words<\/li>\n<li>Beware of Health Scams<\/li>\n<li>Understanding Research Results<\/li>\n<li>Understanding Clinical Studies<\/li>\n<li>And more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want help sorting medical facts from fiction, direct your browser to <a href=\"https:\/\/nccih.nih.gov\/health\/know-science\">Know the Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~Jill Foust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like every day in the news you hear about new scientific research results. What was okay to eat yesterday is not good for you today. It\u2019s the same story with vitamins, one day you can\u2019t take too much of a certain vitamin, and the next day that same dose could harm you. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"issue-archives","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[-1],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-may-2017","avhec_catgroup-issue-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10083,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions\/10083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}