File photo: a soccer match. Photo: U.S. Army photo by Spc. Dean Johnson, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. In the news · July 2026 A case-control study reported in JAMA Neurology compared amateur players who headed the ball with those who did not. Heading was followed by short-lived rises in two brain-injury blood proteins, S100B…
File photo: spices, seeds and nuts at a market in Darjeeling, India. Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. In the news · July 2026 A meta-analysis pooled 78 randomized trials with 5,226 participants. Magnesium supplements produced small changes, such as systolic blood pressure down 2.5 mmHg and fasting glucose down 3.6 mg/dL,…
File photo: crystals of iron(II) sulfate heptahydrate, a compound used in iron supplements. Photo: Benjah-bmm27, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. In the news · July 2026 A prospective, non-randomised study at a Mexican hospital followed 171 women with iron deficiency anaemia taking iron daily or every other day. Both schedules improved haemoglobin over three months,…
File photo: a raised bascule bridge on 12th Street in Chicago, in an early-1900s photograph. Photo: Detroit Publishing Company, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. In the news · September 2026 In early September 2026 the DuSable Lake Shore Drive bridge in Chicago stuck in the raised position for over four hours because heat caused thermal…
Half of football injuries are to the lower limb, the risk is concentrated in games and on one play type, and moving a line five yards cut concussions on that play by four-fifths.
Ankles first and knees second, plus two of the best-tested precautions in team sport — a randomised trial of lace-up braces and a warm-up whose benefit depends almost entirely on actually doing it.
Baseball has one of the lowest injury rates in college sport, and one specific arm problem that the rate hides entirely. What the evidence says about volume, fatigue and the two precautions that have been tested.
In This Series: Personal Finance & Investing Why Most Stock Investors Lose Money: What the Evidence Actually Shows Options and Futures: Where Retail Money Actually Goes Two Retirees, the Same Returns, Only One Runs Out. The Difference Is the Order. Deposit Insurance Stops at $250,000. Since 2008, Uninsured Depositors Have Actually Lost Money in Six…
In This Series: Personal Finance & Investing Why Most Stock Investors Lose Money: What the Evidence Actually Shows Options and Futures: Where Retail Money Actually Goes Two Retirees, the Same Returns, Only One Runs Out. The Difference Is the Order. Deposit Insurance Stops at $250,000. Since 2008, Uninsured Depositors Have Actually Lost Money in Six…
Calcium per measured tablespoon, why absorption falls as the dose rises, and why 59 trials found a one per cent bone density gain that appears in year one and then stops.
