Published December 14, 2017

Research evaluated nearly 16,000 patients who underwent neurosurgical procedures between the years 2007 and 2014. In these procedures, 785 complications were reported by the neurosurgeons. The researchers evaluated the procedures to see if they could find any patterns in when the complications arose. They found that procedures that began between 9:00 pm and 7:00 am were more than 50% more likely to involve complications than procedures that began during the day.

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Published December 12, 2017

Biotin supplements altered the results of 39% of the blood tests. Of these, 63% tested falsely high, and 27% tested falsely low. Another test that is altered by taking biotin is troponin. When a patient is having a heart attack, one of the ways a doctor can tell is if there is an elevation in the blood levels of troponin. The FDA has recently reported that a patient who was taking high levels of biotin died when a troponin test failed to show he was having a heart attack. On the other hand, some patients have been incorrectly diagnosed with hyperthyroidism (elevated thyroid hormones) because of the way biotin altered the test results.

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Published December 9, 2017

Researchers mapped out cancer cell metabolism, trying to find variations and abnormalities that spurred cancer growth. They found that consuming sugar creates a cycle of tumor growth that allowed cells to consume more sugar and create more cancerous cells.

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