Northwestern's analysis of 1,266 adults tied cannabis use to more broken sleep on wrist monitors, though users rated their sleep no worse than non-users. The data are observational, so they leave open whether cannabis broke the sleep or poor sleepers reached for cannabis.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives45
- Confidence55
A Chinese team scored seven nights of wrist accelerometry in UK Biobank and matched the resulting sleep-stage fractions against nearly nine years of diagnoses. Their own recommendation still lands on hours in bed, 6 to 8 of them.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives58
- Confidence57
Veterans with type 2 diabetes who came off semaglutide or tirzepatide lost most of the cardiovascular benefit within two years, and the benefit only appeared in patients who had stayed on the drug past 18 months.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption72
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives58
- Confidence52
Mothers logged their medicine use every two weeks, which helps with recall bias, and the ovary finding reappeared in a second Copenhagen dataset. Whether it means anything for adult fertility is unknown.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives45
- Confidence55
A UK cohort of more than 180,000 women links HRT to 10 percent lower dementia risk, and 26 percent after surgical menopause. Neither of this week's papers is a trial, and they disagree on mechanism.
Reality
- Evidence56
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives48
- Confidence52