Korea's Thyroid-Cancer “Epidemic” — Screening and Overdiagnosis

In 2011, the rate of thyroid-cancer diagnoses in the Republic of Korea was 15 times that observed in 1993, yet thyroid-cancer mortality remains stable — a combination that suggests that the problem...

Korea's Thyroid-Cancer “Epidemic” — Screening and Overdiagnosis

In 2011, the rate of thyroid-cancer diagnoses in the Republic of Korea was 15 times that observed in 1993, yet thyroid-cancer mortality remains stable — a combination that suggests that the problem...

Things that Apparently Cause Cancer

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Ramez Naam on Twitter / X

There was a site years ago called CureTogether where patients could share information in a structured way on their disease, regimen, and progress, working towards a sort of bottoms-up clinical trial. 23andMe acquired them and it seems to be mostly dead.— Ramez Naam (@ramez) September 14, 2025

Jason Crawford on Twitter / X

It's hard to find information that all the world's top scientists and doctors have missed.But it's not that hard, if you're intelligent, thoughtful, and diligent, to find information that the medical system has not yet caught up to—information that is not yet incorporated into… pic.twitter.com/HrgGzCUdX2— Jason Crawford (@jasoncrawford) September 22, 2024

Menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer: what is the evidence from randomized trials?

The relationship between menopausal hormone therapy (HT) and breast cancer is complex and further complicated by misinformation, perception, and overgeneralization of data. These issues are address...

It’s Stanford time, baby: 8-hour time-restricted press releases linked to a 91% higher risk of hype

You and the blog readers might find this interesting: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/8-hour-time-restricted-eating-linked-to-a-91-higher-risk-of-cardiovascular-death.

Cancer’s toll on 9/11 survivors is accelerating 25 years later

The number of victims receiving aid has tripled in recent years, a Post analysis finds, as the illness’s toll becomes more apparent.

The Increasing Problem With the Misinformed - Baekdal

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Jason Shepherd on Twitter / X

I have quite a lot of thoughts on this..that won't fit in a tweet. Bottomline is that there are issues scientists in the US would love to improve - faster review, less grant writing, more stability and freedom to do risky science. The folks celebrating this doc are mostly../1 https://t.co/xlPAH9XYNC— Jason Shepherd (@JasonSynaptic) July 23, 2026

$250 million, 300 scientists and 40 labs: Sean Parker’s revolutionary project to ‘solve’ cancer

The collaboration, which will be formally announced Wednesday, focuses on immunotherapy -- an area of research that many believe represents the future of cancer treatment.

Chris Beiser on Twitter / X

it'd be interesting to quantify the rate at which unaffiliated reddit users have improved on the state of the art for treatment protocols for diseases. my guess is that for 75% of diseases, they're responsible for a greater QoL increase than pharmaceutical companies over 10 years— Chris Beiser (@ctbeiser) June 7, 2021