Health
Health and wellness claims adjacent to beauty are reported with their evidence grade, their limits, and the conditions under which they were studied.
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France's Consumer Watchdog Tested 120 Supplements for Fatigue. Most Fell Short
60 Millions de consommateurs screened 120 popular supplements and found weak evidence for fatigue relief, plus some ingredients flagged for safety concerns.
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Is there such a thing as 'healthier' bacon?
Which? tested 57 pork bacons plus plant and poultry versions for salt, saturated fat and nitrites, finding fivefold gaps in fat and near-threefold gaps in salt between products.
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Does 'Ferritin Face' Mean You Have an Iron Deficiency? Here's How to Tell.
A TikTok term for a tired, pale face has people self-diagnosing low iron, but ferritin alone can mask true deficiency and the numbers doctors argue over are still shifting.
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Celebrities Are Raving About Full-Body Scans. Doctors Urge Caution
Whole-body MRI scans turn up an "abnormal" finding in 95% of healthy people, but a review of 12 studies found 91% of those findings are not clinically meaningful. No U.S. medical society endorses the scans for people without symptoms.
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The THC Gummy Problem: Impairment Doesn't Wait for the High to Kick In
A 2024 driving-simulator trial found THC gummies impaired lane control at doses below legal blood-THC limits, exposing a gap between what's illegal and what's actually risky. Edibles' delayed, unpredictable onset makes that gap especially dangerous for drivers.
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A One-Time Gene Edit Kept Cholesterol Down for a Year. Here's What the Data Can and Can't Say.
A 15-person trial found a single CRISPR infusion cut LDL by 53% a year later, but it's Phase 1a safety data, not proof the edit prevents heart attacks, and a rival base-editing drug is close behind.
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Deer Antlers Helped Mice Heal Fractures in a Week. The Reason May Be Their Nerves.
Mice given injections of deer antler polypeptides healed fractures in about a third the usual time, and the researchers behind the study, from Washington University and Ningbo University, say the reason may be nerve cells, not just bone cells, driving the repair.
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The "Natural Ozempic" Headline Spain Keeps Writing, Minus the One Number That Matters
Spanish outlets keep asking if berberine is a "natural Ozempic," and the newest entry, from El Mundo's Yo Dona, still skips the number that would settle it: a 2025 meta-analysis puts berberine's weight-loss effect at under a kilogram, against semaglutide's 12-15% body weight loss in trials.
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The Three-Phrase Kindness Test Was Never a Test
The three phrases originated in a US advice column based on clinical impressions, not a study of kind people. French and Spanish retellings turned suggestions about what to say into an unsupported claim about who says them.
