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The Long ReadAnalysis
In November 2025, regulators removed most of the boxed warning that had defined hormone therapy since 2002. The science behind the shift is about timing, and the remaining risks are still worth a real conversation.
AnalysisMen's Health
For a decade, the heart-risk question hung over testosterone therapy. A 5,246-man randomized trial answered a lot of it. It also raised new questions about who should be treated and how.
AnalysisThe Visit
The arithmetic of the modern primary care panel explains why preventive care slips and why concierge and team-based models are growing. It also suggests what patients can do inside a 15-minute slot.
AnalysisWeight Medicine
ExplainerHeart Risk
AnalysisBrain Health
ExplainerThyroid
Mildly elevated TSH with normal thyroid hormone is common after 60. A large European trial found that treating it in older adults did not improve how people felt.
AnalysisHeat Therapy
A 20-year study of Finnish men linked frequent sauna use to fewer fatal heart events. It is a striking result, and it comes with caveats the wellness industry tends to skip.
AnalysisSupplements
Pooled together, collagen trials look encouraging. A 2025 analysis found the benefit vanished in studies without industry funding and in the highest-quality trials.
AnalysisSocial Health
Decades of research link social connection to longer life, on a scale comparable to well-known physical risk factors. In 2023, the US Surgeon General called it a public health priority.
The Long Read
Semaglutide and tirzepatide produce weight loss that once required surgery. The trial data on stopping them is just as important, and it should shape how people plan to use them.
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ExplainerFitness Is Fate
Cardiorespiratory fitness predicts how long you live better than most lab values. The good news is that it is one of the most trainable numbers in medicine.
ExplainerSupplements
AnalysisJoint Venture
ExplainerLights Out
AnalysisBy the Numbers
AnalysisStrength Reserve
AnalysisMen's Health
These drugs do not cure obesity. They treat it, in the same way a statin treats high cholesterol.
Practical guides to tests, screenings and treatments, sorted by evidence.
ExplainerHeart Risk
Lipoprotein(a) is an inherited cholesterol particle that raises heart attack and stroke risk regardless of diet or exercise. European experts recommend everyone get it checked at least once.
ExplainerThe Long Game
A randomized trial in sun-drenched Queensland showed that daily sunscreen measurably slowed skin aging over four and a half years. New England winters do not get you off the hook.
GuideNight Shift
Vitamin A derivatives have decades of controlled research behind them. The difference between a good result and a red, peeling face usually comes down to which rung you start on and how fast you climb.
GuideScreening
Colorectal cancer is showing up in younger adults, and national guidelines moved the starting line in 2021. Colonoscopy is not the only option, and the best test is the one you actually complete.
ExplainerThe Unsexy Nutrient
A Lancet review commissioned by the World Health Organization tied higher fiber intake to lower rates of heart disease, diabetes, colorectal cancer and early death. Most Americans eat about half of what they should.
GuideOcean State Field Notes
Adult blacklegged ticks stay active through the fall and on mild winter days. A few habits prevent most bites, and knowing the local diseases helps when one gets through.
The health questions Rhode Islanders actually ask, from tick season on the trails to winter light, local seafood and preventive care that has time for you.
Rhode Island coverageLatest Field Notes
Rhode Island Winter, Vitamin D and the 4 p.m. Sunset
Before the Penguin Plunge, Know What Cold Water Does to Your Body
Tick Season in Rhode Island Does Not End When the Leaves Fall
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