Ferritin face: the new health scare taking social media by storm
Seeing a pallid, washed-out face in the mirror? Prepare to be diagnosed …
Forget T-maxxing – the manosphere’s obsession with testosterone is just fear-maxxing
Testosterone replacement therapy comes with serious and potentially irreversible health risks including infertility and early heart disease
People’s bodies are changing in the age of Ozempic. How are we meant to talk about it?
Discussing people’s bodies can be fraught. We asked eating disorder experts how to do so – or not – responsibly
I stand to defend vertical drinking. Is a pub that doesn’t allow it a real pub at all?
The time-honoured tradition of standing up with a drink, gossiping and putting the world to rights is under threat. If councillors ban it, we’ll all lose out, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
The dead doctor and a dicey diet: how a ban made a hero of Egypt’s rogue medic
Diaa al-Awadi claimed insulin was a fraud, smoking was safe and chemotherapy useless. But despite losing his medical licence and dying at early age, his reach continues to grow
Fitness influencers linked to wellness brand helping run illegal steroid market on Telegram
Ambassadors for Gencore Global directed followers to Telegram channels promoting steroids, prescription medicines and experimental peptides
Forget makeup and tweakments: this is how we should be ageing gracefully
We over-50s should worry less about our crepe necks and sunspots and more about our listening skills – and the pettiness we bring to social media, says Zoe Williams
NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation
Exclusive: Cancer charity says dispelling falsehoods gleaned from social media is now routine task for clinicians
Doctors don’t know what to do about wellness influencers but we dismiss them at our peril
To be a cancer specialist is to see the worst of harm caused by social media. Yet I have never changed a patient’s mind with outrage
Sound baths are supposed to help relax and ‘soothe’ your nervous system. But do any of these claims ring true?
Social media is awash with clips of people paying to be ‘bathed’ in sound. But what’s the science behind the practice?