Health · Investigation
Ebola's fastest week: what eastern Congo is testing
More than 1,500 deaths, and a caseload that grew by half in seven days. The response plan assumed a curve this outbreak is not fol...
Health
Medicine, public health and the systems that deliver them.
Neuroscience
The gene that decides what bad sleep costs your brain
The brain's overnight cleaning system is not equally efficient in everyone. One gene appears to set the price of a short night.
Research
A sleeping brain may flag dementia years before memory does
Machine learning applied to routine EEG recordings is finding a signal in sleep that clinics were not looking for.
Nutrition
One avocado a day, and the LDL particles that go missing
The cholesterol number barely moves. The particle count does — and that is the number cardiologists have been arguing for.
Women’s health
Early menopause is a blood-pressure story nobody tells at 30
The association shows up strongest between 25 and 35, which is exactly when nobody is screening for it.
Research
The childhood 'fat rebound' may never have existed
A rule that shaped four decades of paediatric charts turns out to be an artefact of how BMI is calculated, not of how children gro...
Explainer · Health
How to read a study before you share it
Five questions that separate a finding from a headline, in the order a working editor asks them.