Health

TLDR: The WHO's new 2025 Traditional Medicine Strategy calls for evidence-based integration of practices like ginger and cinnamon—not as miracle cures but as adjuncts to standard care. Research shows ginger effectively reduces nausea and may ease mild inflammation and joint pain, while cinnamon improves blood sugar and lipids, but Cassia cinnamon contains liver-damaging coumarin that read more

TLDR: San Francisco just launched a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against 10 food and soda giants, arguing that ultra-processed foods are engineered to be addictive, deceptively marketed (especially to kids and low-income communities), and driving a tobacco-level public health crisis of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and more. Backed by emerging neuroscience and large-scale studies, the case claims read more

TLDR: Egypt has quietly ended a 3,500‑year battle with trachoma—not by miracle cure, but through two decades of unglamorous public health work that turned face‑washing at a rural school tap into a frontline defense against blindness. By combining the SAFE strategy (surgery, antibiotics, hygiene, and environmental improvements) with massive rural infrastructure upgrades under the Haya read more

TLDR: A healthy New Jersey dad’s sudden death after a backyard burger turned out to be the first documented fatal case of alpha-gal syndrome from eating meat—a delayed red-meat allergy triggered by Lone Star tick bites that most clinicians still don’t recognize. The tick’s saliva can “rewire” the immune system to attack a sugar in read more

TLDR: Asbestos has been found in coloured “non‑toxic” play sand used in schools and homes across Australia and New Zealand since 2020—revealing not a one‑off recall, but a systemic safety failure where mined, asbestos‑prone rock was crushed, dyed, imported and sold for children’s play with almost no independent testing or border checks. Authorities say the read more

TLDR: Startup companies now charge up to $50,000 to predict embryo intelligence for IVF patients, but the science is shaky at best: polygenic scores explain only 4-6% of intelligence variation in embryos, with massive confidence intervals that could mislabel an average embryo as brilliant or vice versa. Real-world gains from selecting the "smartest" embryo average read more

TLDR: Four West Virginia sisters—all diagnosed with the same ultra-rare brain malformation—turn a two-year diagnostic odyssey into a landmark family case that flips the 1-in-2,000 Chiari odds on their head and ends with four life-changing skull-decompression surgeries at NewYork-Presbyterian. It started with the kind of subtle worry every parent knows. For the Higginbotham family in read more

TLDR: A new AI tool called Delphi-2M can predict your risk of over 1,000 diseases up to 20 years ahead by analyzing your health data—essentially creating a "digital twin" that might know your medical future before you do. Beyond the promise of early intervention, this raises unsettling questions: Will knowing your algorithmic fate spark paralyzing read more

TLDR: Scientists are building personal health Digital Twins—dynamic, data-fed virtual versions of you that can simulate treatments before they touch your body. Today, this tech is already managing chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, planning complex surgeries, and personalizing cancer therapy. But as we build these virtual selves, massive questions around data privacy, AI bias, read more