Cannabis legalization may drive innovation, but commercialization does not always work in public health’s favour Cannabis legalization is often presented as a binary choice: either it represents a rational alternative to prohibition, or it opens the...
Continue readingExercise and ibuprofen are emerging as hypotheses for easing cancer-related ‘brain fog’ — but the evidence provided does not confirm the claim Among the less visible — and often more frustrating — effects of cancer and its treatment is what clinician...
Continue readingAntibiotic resistance genes may appear in newborns very early — and birth, antibiotics, and feeding seem to shape what that first microbial burden looks like Antimicrobial resistance is usually discussed as a problem of hospitals, overused antibiotic...
Continue readingHIV treatment may improve some signs of biological ageing — but claims of becoming ‘nearly four years younger’ still need caution For decades, the biggest success in HIV care was turning a potentially fatal infection into a chronic, treatable conditi...
Continue readingMaths and statistics are becoming a core language of neuroscience — but elegant models still have to answer to the brain’s messy biology For a long time, thinking about the brain was almost the same thing as thinking about anatomy: neurones, synapses...
Continue readingA new mouse model may help explain why chronic muscle inflammation resists standard drugs — but the evidence provided does not yet confirm that mechanism Chronic muscle inflammation sits in a particularly frustrating corner of medicine. It is biologi...
Continue readingAn international consensus on robotic systems for stroke care could help bring order to a fast-growing field — but the evidence provided supports rehabilitation more than stroke treatment as a whole Few areas of health technology are growing with as...
Continue readingA reproductive justice framework may be crucial for addressing inequities in high-risk pregnancy care — but only if it becomes real access, not just rhetoric Few areas of health care expose the gap between medical technology and equity as clearly as...
Continue readingmRNA cancer vaccines may still destroy tumours even when one expected immune piece falters — but the exact mechanism is still unclear from the evidence provided Few areas of oncology are generating as much excitement right now as mRNA cancer vaccines...
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