Harvard Pilgrim researchers found 54.9% of LGBTQ+ adults in Massachusetts were food insecure in 2024, against 33.3% of other adults. The authors attribute the part income cannot explain to stigma and access barriers, a link their survey documents but does not test.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
Scott Hadland's Medicaid study of nearly 230,000 youth with opioid use disorder found medication starts edged up while six-month retention may have fallen. Most patients are lost before that point, since five in six young people engaged in care receive no medication at all.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
Broad Institute-led researchers have catalogued mitochondrial proteins in one plant and five human parasites across nine papers in Cell and related journals. Parasite proteins that human mitochondria lack give neglected tropical disease programs a first list of candidate drug targets to test.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives55
- Confidence55
A Mass General Brigham team read two sets of aging clocks across 122 donated livers and found the pumped ones biologically younger, though a Berlin surgeon says what that does for recipients is still unclear.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives55
- Confidence55
A Mass General Brigham team stretched a five-day antiviral course to as long as 25 days and tested each ingredient on its own. No clinical benefit appeared, which narrows the viral persistence theory without retiring it.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives28
- Confidence55
The new BMJ cohort counts confirmed cases against every NFL decedent, which makes 25% arithmetic and everything above it argument. That distinction is what liability models will run on.
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence71