Health Editor, Lonic
Amina is a practising physician who reads clinical trial data for a living and writes about metabolic health, ageing and evidence quality.
Case counts have risen again in clusters with below-threshold vaccination coverage. The epidemiology is well understood; the response is where the difficulty lies.
Wildfire seasons have grown longer and smoke plumes now regularly affect populations far from the fires themselves. The long-term respiratory consequences are only beginning to be understood.
Millions of people now get mental health support through an app before, or instead of, a clinician. Regulation has not kept pace with either the market or the risks.
Search interest is up 115 per cent. Unusually for a viral eating trend, the underlying science is solid — but the way people are attempting it is not.
It is cheap, it is everywhere, and the clinical evidence is far thinner than the confidence with which it is recommended. For one group of people it is actively dangerous.
The evidence linking ultra-processed food to poor health outcomes has grown substantially. But the category itself is broad enough that some of the strongest public claims outrun what the research supports.
Antimicrobial resistance is rising faster than the industry is producing new drugs to treat it. The economics, not the science, are the main obstacle.
Pill versions of the weight-loss and diabetes drugs that have dominated health headlines are moving through late-stage trials and early approvals. The manufacturing story matters more than the marketing.
GLP-1 medicines are now among the most-searched health topics on earth. The long-term data is arriving — and it is more nuanced than either camp claims.
Poor sleep is genuinely linked to worse metabolic health. The mechanisms are well studied. The claims made about fixing it with a single habit change are usually overstated.
Measles outbreaks are being reported in multiple countries that had previously eliminated the disease. The underlying cause is a slow, sustained decline in childhood vaccination coverage.
Biological age tests, senolytics, protocols and supplements. A plain reading of what has human evidence and what does not.