For how we live.
The same sport that a 300,000-person Swedish cohort associated with a 40% lower death rate carries an injury incidence in professionals roughly six times that of amateurs. The difference is dose.
OPAL randomised 347 people in Australian primary care and emergency departments. At six weeks the opioid group's mean pain score was slightly worse than the placebo group's.
PACE randomised patients across 235 primary care centres and found recovery took 17 days on the drug and 16 days on placebo. For osteoarthritis the picture differs, but not flatteringly.
Six randomised trials found no benefit from immediate imaging over usual care. A separate review explains the reason: most of what a scan finds is present in people with no pain at all.