Physician-written health education explaining medical guidance for adults, covering colon cancer screening options, Lp(a) cholesterol testing and treatments, and RSV vaccine recommendations. Readers get clinically grounded explanations of what current guidelines say and why, with references to trials and official bodies.
Website: https://www.healthyinsight.org/
A blog by an emergency physician that examines medical research, health misinformation and science communication. Readers get personal clinical stories alongside critical, method-focused reviews of studies and claims.
A personal essay newsletter by Kawa Zolfagary about taking up judo in his forties, with self-deprecating humor about training, injuries and sparring. Issues also cover midlife health scares and lifestyle changes, told in a literary, reflective voice.
Personal essays from a Toronto-based writer and former academic on books, illness, grief, housing and disability. Issues blend memoir with cultural criticism, covering a book on a Toronto homeless encampment, a tribute to a mentor, and the experience of chronic illness diagnosis.
Each issue takes a popular food or wellness claim, traces its history, and checks it against the actual studies, noting where the evidence stops. Issues also include practical elements such as a congee recipe and kitchen advice.
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