Johns Hopkins researchers found letting the arm hang unsupported raised systolic readings by about 6.5 mmHg against a desk-supported arm. The team says an error of that size could lead to wrong hypertension diagnoses in clinics that skip arm support.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives40
- Confidence60
Sanjay Razdan's 2560 prostate operations using amniotic membrane nerve wraps averaged seven days to first erection, against 14 in his earlier patients. His comparison patients all predate 2014, so improvements in his own technique could account for part of the gap.
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- Evidence30
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives50
- Confidence35
Johns Hopkins reports that mouse axons preserved by high pressure freezing are beaded at the nanoscale, and says that shape may help set how fast signals travel, a variable the textbook drawing of a smooth tube leaves out.
Reality
- Evidence63
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives62
- Confidence56
Johns Hopkins researchers ran a miniature brain microscope autonomously through a full day of mouse behavior, recording neuronal activity, blood flow and oxygenation, and catching spontaneous seizures hours after a drug dose.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+16
- Incentives66
- Confidence52
Two cardiology bodies have set out how clinicians should judge whether someone is fit to answer the next call, filling a gap the writing group's vice chair says he spotted after decades of guidance written for competitive sport.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives45
- Confidence55
A Cell paper reconstructs organ formation by ordering hundreds of static mouse follicles by molecular age. The animation is an inference, and the Foxn1 delay finding rests on it.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives62
- Confidence52
Johns Hopkins and NIH researchers report faster, cleaner translation from an alternative mRNA modification than from the chemistry used in COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Dose economics is the open question.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives62
- Confidence44