The Reading Room: Patient Experience Guides

One in three adults has prediabetes, most unknowingly. People who reversed it describe the casual diagnosis, the levers that mo...

Doxy-PEP — a single antibiotic dose after sex — is the biggest STI prevention shift since PrEP. What users report about logisti...

June 27, 2026 Wearables and Self-Tracked Health

Wearables in data: how widely health-tracking devices have been adopted, what people track, and how to use them wisely.

Physical inactivity in numbers: how many adults fall short of recommended activity, and why it is a leading preventable risk.

The world's leading cause of death in numbers: the scale of cardiovascular disease and how much of it is preventable.

June 26, 2026 Kidney Stones: What Helps

Among the most painful experiences there is, and one that often comes back. What kidney stones are, what passing one is like, a...

Statins are among the most prescribed and most argued-about medicines there are. What high cholesterol means, what statins do, ...

A quick scan that looks for calcium in the heart's arteries and helps predict risk. What a CAC score is, what the number means,...

A hidden, inherited risk factor for heart disease that most people have never had measured. What Lp(a) is, why it matters, and ...

It usually has no symptoms, yet it quietly raises serious risks. What high blood pressure is, why it earns the name silent, and...