Your doctor's best advice for a splashy new medical study might be to "take it with a grain of salt and call me in a decade." A review of 49 recent major medical studies found that nearly a third were either contradicted entirely or found to describe a smaller effect than was originally thought. The studies were chosen based on how often they'd been cited in later medical journal articles. A sampling:

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