Personalised Medicine Is Real in a Few Places
Treatment tailored to individual biology works well in oncology and pharmacogenomics. Elsewhere it remains mostly aspiration.
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Sleep Research: Which Findings Actually Hold Up
A field with enormous popular attention and uneven evidence. Separating the well established from the widely repeated.
Mental Health Apps: What the Evidence Supports
Thousands of apps, a small number with real trials behind them. The distinction is not visible in the store listing.
The Antibiotic Pipeline Is Broken for Economic Reasons
Resistance grows while development stalls. The obstacle is not scientific difficulty but that new antibiotics are bad businesses.
Wearables Are Becoming Medical Devices, With Consequences
Consumer devices now detect conditions that used to require a clinic. That creates diagnoses nobody asked for.
Long-Term Financial Hardship Shows Up in the Brain Decades Later
A long-running study links persistent money stress in early adulthood to measurable differences in thinking skills by the fifties.
Recognising Burnout Before It Becomes a Crisis
It develops slowly and the early signs are easy to explain away. Recognising the pattern matters.
A Generation Is Damaging Its Hearing and Will Not Know for Decades
Personal audio at high volume for hours a day is producing hearing loss that accumulates silently.
What Remote Work Did to Mental Health, Honestly
The evidence points in both directions, and which direction applies depends on circumstances the studies rarely capture.
Weight Loss Does Not Immediately Reset the Body
Research suggests some immune cells retain a molecular signature of previous obesity for years after weight is lost.