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4 stories this week: healthy ageing, fatty liver disease, stroke treatment and early breast cancer. In each one the result depended on who the patients were or which approach they got, and each shows where its evidence stops.
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For people who feel well and wonder whether a dementia blood test is worth taking: what 12 years of follow-up say a positive or a negative result can tell you, and where these tests are recommended today.
Why a nightly average may miss important sleep features for adults tracking long-term health, which combinations stood out in 257,509 UK Biobank participants, and how far this observational evidence can go.
4 stories this week: type 2 diabetes and weight, choosing which heart arteries to stent, teenage weight loss and how past infections show up in organ ageing — what each study found and where its evidence stops.
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For women with bipolar disorder who are thinking about pregnancy, and for their families: what the pooled studies say about the riskiest weeks after birth, and why they cannot yet settle the choice of treatment.
4 stories this week: prostate cancer, knee arthritis, an inherited kidney disease and care after Parkinson's surgery — what each trial changed and how far the evidence goes.
Digest · 4 stories
For anyone with knee osteoarthritis who is tempted to back up their exercises with a supplement: what a Japanese trial in older women showed, and why it is far from the final answer.
What a 22-year Greek cohort suggests about whether it is too late to become active in your 40s or 50s, and why the direction of your habits may say more than any single snapshot.
4 stories this week: stroke, type 2 diabetes in children, lung cancer and multiple sclerosis, each with who was studied, what was measured and where the evidence stops.
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For people with asthma who reach for a reliever inhaler: what three randomised trials say about a reliever that also contains an anti-inflammatory steroid, and where that evidence is still thin.
What a new mouse experiment suggests about why exercise that loads the skeleton may matter for ageing beyond bone strength, and where the human evidence currently stops.
4 stories this week: depression that resists treatment, high blood pressure with kidney disease, blood counts on a common class of diabetes and heart drugs, and anxiety before surgery, each with who it was tested on and what it does not yet show.
Digest · 4 stories
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