Physician-economists Bapu Jena and Chris Worsham use creative data analysis, including natural experiments, to explore hidden forces shaping health. The newsletter collects their original studies and TIME essays on topics such as traffic deaths, gender gaps in medicine, and the timing of medical care.
Website: https://www.randomactsofmedicine.com
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.
Each issue opens with a closely observed scene of an older stranger in New York, then reads it as a clue to health or money, rating the evidence behind it. A reader gets short, sourced explainers on aging, symptoms and Medicare costs with the caveats left in.
A personal newsletter of first-person essays about living with multiple sclerosis, covering symptoms, medical experiences like MRIs, and physical challenges such as hiking the Grand Canyon. Readers get vivid, reflective storytelling about uncertainty, fear, and resilience.
A weekly serial that reads through James Salisbury's nineteenth-century book on diet and disease, chapter by chapter. It sets his claims about meat-and-hot-water regimens in historical context and checks them against what modern medicine knows.
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