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Dementia
Dementia stories often overstate animal studies, biomarkers or early findings before patient benefit is shown.
Animal models
Biomarkers
Early-stage findings
Cancer
Cancer headlines can turn cell studies, mouse tumour data or early trials into breakthrough language too soon.
Cell studies
Mouse data
Early trials
Supplements
Claims about vitamins, extracts and “natural” products often rely on early, small or indirect studies.
Animal/lab evidence
Small trials
Safety assumptions
Longevity
Longevity stories often translate early biological signals into practical anti-ageing advice before human benefit is shown.
Biological-age markers
Animal lifespan
Correlation claims
Diet and nutrition
Diet headlines often turn associations, relative risks or single-food findings into stronger advice than the study can support.
Observational studies
Relative risk
Single-food claims
Heart health
Heart-health headlines often turn risk-factor changes, small trials or observational links into stronger prevention advice than the evidence supports.
Risk markers
Relative risk
Observational links
Weight loss
Weight-loss stories often overstate early drug, diet or supplement results without enough context about durability, harms and who was studied.
Short trials
Surrogate outcomes
Before-and-after claims
Mental health
Mental-health headlines can compress complex evidence into simple claims about apps, drugs, psychedelics, lifestyle changes or biomarkers.
Small trials
Subjective outcomes
Causal overreach
Diabetes and metabolic health
Metabolic-health stories often mix glucose markers, weight change, drug effects and long-term disease risk without separating outcomes clearly.
Biomarkers
Drug extrapolation
Lifestyle confounding
Infections and vaccines
Infection and vaccine headlines need careful separation of lab findings, population surveillance, clinical outcomes and public-health claims.
Population data
Lab findings
Safety signals
Exercise and physical activity
Exercise headlines often turn associations, wearable metrics or short interventions into broad claims about lifespan, disease prevention or cognition.
Activity tracking
Association claims
Short interventions
Sleep and recovery
Sleep and recovery stories often overstate tracker data, supplement claims or associations with dementia, weight, mood and performance.
Tracker metrics
Supplement claims
Association studies
Women’s health
Women’s-health headlines often require careful reading around menopause, fertility, pregnancy, screening and hormone-related claims.
Hormone claims
Screening trade-offs
Population specificity
Gut health and microbiome
Gut-health headlines often jump from microbiome associations or small probiotic studies to broad claims about immunity, mood or metabolism.
Microbiome associations
Small probiotic trials
Mechanism leap
Screening and diagnostics
Screening and diagnostic headlines often confuse earlier detection or technical accuracy with improved outcomes for patients.
Sensitivity claims
Surrogate endpoints
Clinical utility gaps
Neuroscience
An introduction to the field of neuroscience, explaining how the brain and nervous system work, key research areas, and what current evidence reveals. This hub provides an accessible starting point for understanding the science behind the brain, highlighting important questions, common topics, and how evidence is built in this field.
Evidence strength
Human relevance
Overclaim risk