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60 stories for“health checks”
Updated traveler attention around Ebola-affected areas underscores a basic rule: monitor official advice, know the symptoms and seek help without stigmatizing whole countries.
Jul 24, 2026
A home reading is only as good as the way it was taken. Sit, rest, support the arm, use the right cuff, and take readings for a week. The thresholds at home are lower than in the clinic.
Sep 19, 2026
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
Heat illness is one of the most preventable medical emergencies there is, and most of the popular advice about it is either useless or actively wrong. The humidity is what changes the arithmetic.
Aug 8, 2026
Fear, disrupted sleep, grief and irritability are common during conflict. Evidence-based support begins with safety and practical care, while recognizing when professional help is urgent.
Jul 25, 2026
Pregnancy is an accidental stress test of the pancreas, and gestational diabetes is a failed one. The glucose normalises after birth, the elevated lifetime risk does not, and the follow-up appointment that would catch it is missed constantly.
Jul 31, 2026
For much of the Gulf's working population, the conflict is somewhere their family lives and they do not. The particular difficulty of that position is helplessness, and there are things that genuinely help with it.
Aug 13, 2026
VO2 max strongly predicts longevity, but the evidence that slow, low-intensity Zone 2 training is the best way to raise it is weaker than the trend suggests.
Jan 15, 2025
A delayed mortality count reveals the June heatwave’s true scale, showing why the deadliest climate disaster can pass quietly behind ordinary causes of death.
Jul 23, 2026
One in five people who live through conflict develops a mental health condition. Most of the useful advice is unglamorous: fix sleep, ration news, keep routine, and treat connection as a necessity rather than a nicety.
Aug 13, 2026
New survey analysis points to greater climate-related health harm among disabled people, strengthening the case for accessible alerts, evacuation and cooling plans.
Jul 24, 2026
Oxford Population Health researchers found 37 per cent of adults enrolled in Our Future Health had hypertension, and 59 per cent of those, about 1.3 million people, were undiagnosed. Even diagnosed patients often had it poorly controlled.
Sep 25, 2026
New research on mindful technology use reframes burnout as a work-design problem involving notifications, norms and control, not just an employee resilience problem.
Jul 24, 2026
WHO says the risk remains low for most people as cases rise in parts of Europe, but bite prevention and awareness of severe symptoms matter.
Jul 31, 2026
The CDC's 1 October update counts 76 illnesses from E. coli, Salmonella or both, all traced to one lot of alfalfa seed. Six people have been hospitalised and none has died.
Oct 2, 2026
A health ministry does not issue a public warning about an eating plan for the sake of it. This one followed reports of people reaching intensive care after stopping insulin.
Jun 13, 2026
The only licensed Ebola vaccine was made for Zaire ebolavirus. The outbreak killing people in eastern Congo is Bundibugyo. Vaccination began this week anyway, with 20,000 of the 70,000 doses formally designated as a trial.
Aug 29, 2026
The sleep industry hits $585 billion as Americans invest in mattresses, trackers, and supplements to optimize rest. But obsessing over sleep data might actually backfire.
Feb 15, 2024
Shortages pushed patients toward compounded semaglutide. The FDA's latest alert shows why that workaround carries real risk.
Aug 5, 2024
Research use only is a legal phrase, not a quality standard. Testing of peptides bought online keeps finding the wrong dose, the wrong compound, or contamination in something people inject at home.
Aug 12, 2026
DiRECT reported 46 per cent remission at one year and 36 per cent at two. Among those who lost more than ten kilograms, three quarters were in remission. At five years, the picture is more sobering and more useful.
Aug 12, 2026
Continuous monitoring is now recommended for adults with type 2 diabetes who are not on insulin at all, and the prerequisites for starting automated insulin delivery have been deleted rather than relaxed. Both changes are about access.
Aug 15, 2026
The label is contested, the thresholds differ between guidelines, and most people who have it never progress. It is also the one point in this whole condition where a trial showed you can change the outcome by more than half.
Jul 10, 2026
SGLT2 inhibitors were developed to lower blood sugar by making you urinate it out. The glucose effect turned out to be the least interesting thing about them, and the kidney trials changed how this complication is treated.
Jul 25, 2026
The IDF and Diabetes and Ramadan International Alliance stratify patients into low, moderate and high risk, and updated the calculator for 2026. The assessment is meant to happen six to eight weeks ahead, which is when almost nobody books it.
Aug 3, 2026
Diabetic retinopathy does not hurt, does not blur vision early, and gives no warning a person can feel. By the time sight changes, the damage that caused it has usually been accumulating for years.
Jul 19, 2026
Between 19 and 34 per cent of people with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer. Once one has happened, five-year mortality runs at 50 to 70 per cent. Almost nobody is told this, and the prevention costs the price of looking.
Jul 22, 2026
A three thousand year old medical system with real insights about routine, diet and constitution also has a documented contamination problem. Two studies published in JAMA found heavy metals in about a fifth of the Ayurvedic products they tested.
Sep 4, 2026
Two large pooled analyses now agree: the drop in mortality with more walking is steep up to about seven thousand steps a day and shallow after that. What the studies found, what they could not show, and what to do with a phone that counts.
Sep 6, 2026
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
Children absorb far more than parents realise, and silence does not protect them. What helps is honest, age-appropriate information, predictable routine, and adults who manage their own distress in front of them.
Aug 13, 2026
Diabetes care is organised around bringing numbers down, which makes it easy to forget that the acute danger points the other way. The ADA defines three levels of hypoglycaemia, and the third one requires another person.
Aug 6, 2026
Berberine lowers cholesterol and blood sugar in small trials, but comparing it to semaglutide misreads both the data and the biology.
Feb 14, 2024
