Health

News, commentary, critique, reviews, research from medicine, pseudomedicine and health.

Health

Marcelo Yamashita - 10th November 2025

Polyamin was hyped as a miracle cure for spinal injuries in the media, despite there being no published scientific papers presenting the evidence

Health

Alice Howarth - 7th November 2025

Coronary heart disease remains the largest cause of death in women, yet women suffering heart attacks often have their symptoms missed, or ignored

Nutrition

Maeve Hanan - 24th October 2025

Scaremongering claims about ultra-processed food fill make for eye-catching media headlines - but is fear of the dreaded UPF really evidence-based?

Science

Serdar Basegmez - 10th October 2025

Controversial German virologist Stefan Lanka challenged scientists to prove that viruses are real, which made it all the way to the German courtroom.

Cancer

Alice Howarth - 8th October 2025

A preliminary study suggests a correlation between ultramarathons and higher bowel cancer risk, but we should be cautious about what it means

Nutrition

Alice Howarth - 25th September 2025

When even supermarket recipe magazines are leading with health tips about sea moss, we need to stop treating wellness claims as "content"

Placebo Effect

Mike Hall - 22nd September 2025

Once you eliminate well-understood elements like bias and regression to the mean, there's no remarkable placebo effect left to explain

Cancer

Michael Marshall - 8th September 2025

Wellness company British Supplements uses customer reviews to try to avoid regulations around misleading claims of products treating "C****R"

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