The Promise of Multi-Cancer Screening
Emily Kim reports on provocative multi-country research into the Holy Grail of cancer screening: a single test that can perform early detection of many types of cancer.
RED-S: The Little-Known Condition Harming Athletes
In a new longform story, student and athlete Annika Urban explores how pressure to be lean and to achieve peak performance creates the little-known condition RED-S and undermines athletes' health.
Go Ahead and Eat the Carbs
New in Exploring Health's Opinion vertical: Gabriella Salazar critically analyses the low-carb keto diet.
Not All Sports are Created Equal
Andrew Feld discusses the research challenges of determining how different types of sports impact youth mental health, and how to help parents understand the findings.
MAKING SPACE FOR ART IN SCIENCE
Inaugurating a longform vertical at Exploring Health: CSHH senior and dancer Gabrielle Stearns reflects on how science and the arts can enrich each other.
Health Beyond the Blog: Rachel E. Gross and “Vagina Obscura”
New on Health Beyond the Blog: Vagina Obscura. Prof. Maryn Mckenna interviews Rachel Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage, which details how anatomists mapped female reproductive organs and how a new generation is wresting them back.
Health Beyond the Blog: A Dive into Autism
The 2022 South Korean TV show “Extraordinary Attorney Woo Young Woo” follows a young lawyer with autism spectrum disorder and shows how she thrives amidst stigma.
Health Beyond the Blog: The Reality of Living Organically
The 2018 documentary"The Biggest Little Farm" reveals the challenges and rewards of getting as close as possible to the process of producing food, showing the efforts of one family to live and eat naturally.
Health and the Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics showed us that shared health events–pandemics and their aftermath–affect the health of elite athletes in unpredictable ways.
COVID Chronicles | Exercise & Training Strategies for a Post-Pandemic World
With the rise of social media usage, exercise and diet culture have influenced a large number of people, and today’s youth is among them. In this episode, host Snehitha Vardhineni speaks to experts in the field as well as today’s youth to explore trends and personal experiences in relation to exercise and nutrition.