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Most health content online is written to rank, not to be true. Every claim we publish traces back to NIH, CDC, Mayo Clinic, or peer-reviewed research — and when the evidence is mixed, we say so.
AD109 cut breathing interruptions by 44% in a Phase 3 trial and is now under FDA review. How it works, who it might help, and why it is not a CPAP replacement for most people.
Read the articleA randomised trial matched weight loss across three diets and still found the ketogenic arm cut liver fat by 67% versus 45%. Why matched weight loss makes this important, and the limits of 55 people over five months.
What A1C actually measures, why it is weighted toward the last month, the conditions that make it unreliable, and why the same number can mean different things in different people.
Muscle pain on statins is real — but blinded trials found most of it occurs on placebo too. What SAMSON showed, which risks are genuine, and why this is not the same as saying it is imaginary.
A coronary calcium score shows whether heart disease is actually present rather than estimating risk. How to read the number, what a zero really means, and the blind spot nobody mentions.
How low should LDL cholesterol be? What the randomised trials and genetic evidence show about lower targets, why no floor of harm has been found, and who the aggressive numbers apply to.
In 1973 a biochemist sewed two mice together and proved fat tissue talks to the brain. Twenty-one years later they found the hormone. Then the drug failed — and that failure explains why weight comes back.
Moderna and Merck's personalized mRNA cancer therapy met its Phase 3 endpoints in resected melanoma. How it works, how it started, and the caveats most coverage omits.
Our NHANES 2021-2023 analysis: 70.9% of US adults with an A1C of 5.7-6.4% have never been told they have prediabetes - about 41.7 million people. Method included.
Our analysis of NHANES 2021-2023: 47% of US adults with a healthy BMI have a waist-to-height ratio of 0.5 or above - about 28.7 million people. Method and limits included.