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46 stories for“deficiency”

Large trials with more than 30,000 participants found vitamin D pills do little for people who are not deficient, reshaping decades of assumptions.

Jan 20, 2026

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Your HbA1c Is an Average of Your Red Blood Cells, Which Is Why It Sometimes Lies

The test everyone treats as the verdict measures sugar stuck to haemoglobin over the life of a red cell. Anything that changes how long those cells live changes the result, and several of those conditions are common across this region.

Jul 13, 2026

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FDA Approves Dostarlimab for dMMR Rectal Cancer, an Option That May Spare Some Patients Surgery

The first immunotherapy cleared for locally advanced rectal cancer with a specific tumour fingerprint, approved four months early on interim data that still needs confirming.

Oct 19, 2026

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BMJ Analysis Warns Fast-Growing Private Testosterone Prescribing Could Land on the NHS

Two UK clinicians say subscription clinics may be treating vague symptoms and borderline blood tests, leaving the health service to monitor patients it never diagnosed.

Oct 14, 2026

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Pennsylvania's Fourth Measles Death Is an 18-Year-Old in Mifflin County. America Last Lost Four in a Year in 1992

Nearly 700 cases in 38 counties, 133 in hospital, a hundred new infections in a week, and four unvaccinated dead in a month: two infants, a woman of forty and now a teenager with brain inflammation. The CDC has yet to count any of them.

Sep 17, 2026

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WHO Says Diet and Exercise Come First and Children Under 10 Should Not Get Weight-Loss Drugs or Surgery

The agency's first global guideline on child obesity backs structured eating, activity and behaviour programmes, and allows medicines for teenagers only after those have failed.

Oct 7, 2026

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Metformin as an Anti-Aging Drug: The Claims Versus the Trial Data

Biohackers take metformin to slow aging, but the trial designed to actually prove that, TAME, still has not finished enrolling.

May 6, 2024

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Vitamin D Supplements: A Reality Check on Who Actually Benefits

Your HbA1c Is an Average of Your Red Blood Cells, Which Is Why It Sometimes Lies

FDA Approves Dostarlimab for dMMR Rectal Cancer, an Option That May Spare Some Patients Surgery

BMJ Analysis Warns Fast-Growing Private Testosterone Prescribing Could Land on the NHS

Pennsylvania's Fourth Measles Death Is an 18-Year-Old in Mifflin County. America Last Lost Four in a Year in 1992

WHO Says Diet and Exercise Come First and Children Under 10 Should Not Get Weight-Loss Drugs or Surgery

Metformin as an Anti-Aging Drug: The Claims Versus the Trial Data

Results

Vitamin D Supplements: A Reality Check on Who Actually Benefits

Your HbA1c Is an Average of Your Red Blood Cells, Which Is Why It Sometimes Lies

FDA Approves Dostarlimab for dMMR Rectal Cancer, an Option That May Spare Some Patients Surgery

BMJ Analysis Warns Fast-Growing Private Testosterone Prescribing Could Land on the NHS

Pennsylvania's Fourth Measles Death Is an 18-Year-Old in Mifflin County. America Last Lost Four in a Year in 1992

WHO Says Diet and Exercise Come First and Children Under 10 Should Not Get Weight-Loss Drugs or Surgery

Metformin as an Anti-Aging Drug: The Claims Versus the Trial Data