Health

Your watch reads heart rate well, botches calories badly, and sells the rest. Which wearable numbers deserve trust and which are noise dressed as science.

High deductibles and surprise facility fees push people to skip the screenings that catch disease early. Where the costs hide and how to lower them.

AI already reads scans, flags strokes, and watches heart rhythms in everyday care. What that means for accuracy, cost, privacy, and your next diagnosis.

EPA research finds indoor air is often two to five times more polluted than outdoor air. What builds up in a sealed home, and the cheap habits that clear it.

Breast implants are not lifetime devices. The imaging schedule, the device card, and the registry steps that keep you ahead of silent ruptures and recalls.

Blue checks are for sale and detox teas have no trials behind them. How to vet credentials, spot paid posts, and filter the health advice in your feed.

Roughly 90 percent of people with ME/CFS are never diagnosed, and women wait years while being told it is stress. What the research says, and how to push back.

Half of medical trainees in a landmark study endorsed false beliefs about race and pain. How that bias shapes treatment, and how patients can push back.

Medical AI trained mostly on men misreads women, from heart attacks to drug doses. How the bias works and what to ask before you trust a diagnostic score.