The ultimate guide to cardiovascular and metabolic health

Improving your metabolic health protects your heart and vice versa. Here’s why. | Levels

Population tipping point could arrive by 2030

Study estimates global fertility will drop below replacement level years earlier than others predict. | Science

A Musical Takes on Cancer

Musician and breast cancer survivor Marcy Marxer reenacts life during cancer treatment, with a comedic twist. | Cancer Today

How to Steer an Interview So You Get What You Need

The best interviewers share some common tactics to think and talk at the same time, get a rambling source back on track, find anecdotes that sing, and more. | The Open Notebook

Music to the Ears

Music therapy can help ease anxiety and improve quality of life for people with cancer. | Cancer Today

The Confusing World of Breast Cancer Screening for Transgender People

Navigating breast and chest health as a trans or non-binary person can be far from straightforward. | Breastcancer.org

How to Report on Healthcare for Trans Youth Accurately and Sensitively

Transgender children are under political attack, with their rights to evidence-based healthcare being stripped across the U.S. and other countries. | The Open Notebook

Preventing Nerve Damage

New research suggests compression and cold therapy may limit chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. | Cancer Today

An Integrative Approach

Derived from traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture shows benefits for easing cancer-related pain. | Cancer Today

Are participation trophies good for kids?

There are pros and cons to handing out medals to children who haven’t actually won anything. | Popular Science

What Trans Health Care for Minors Really Means

The cloud of politics surrounding these bills has obscured the medical reality of how and when trans youth can get the treatments they seek. | WebMD

Hate Taking Pills? For Some Drugs, You Won’t Need To

Alternative methods of drug delivery promise to make taking drugs easier, and they may make some drugs more effective. | WebMD

Andre Isaacs Inspires Future Chemists on Social Media and on Campus

This College of the Holy Cross professor helps students embrace organic chemistry and advocates for queer students. | Chemical & Engineering News

What do ants smell like?

Do some ants smell like chocolate and blue cheese? | Live Science

How four transgender researchers are improving the health of their communities

Being transgender can inspire these researchers and improve their work, but sometimes their research has nothing to do with their identity. | Nature Medicine

How to use science to talk to kids about gender

The conversations should start before young minds set stereotypes. | Popular Science

What Healthy Eating Means When You’re Trans and Taking Hormones

Gender-affirming hormone therapy may affect your nutrition needs in ways researchers are just beginning to understand. Here’s how to support your wellbeing while science gets up to speed. | WW

Scalpel or Sword? Orthopedic Surgery Resident Heads to Tokyo Olympics in Fencing

Training to become an Olympian takes singular focus and dedication. So does training to become a doctor. Kamali Thompson, MD, did both at the same time. | Medscape

Whiter Neighborhoods Get More Park Space, a New Report Shows

More than two-thirds of the 100 largest U.S. cities offer less park acreage in communities of color, with similar inequity based on income. | Audubon

Why Trans Kids Need to Be Allowed in Sports, According to Transgender Athlete Schuyler Bailar

Legislators across the country are trying to ban trans kids from sports. Swimmer and advocate Schuyler Bailar explains why they shouldn't. | Fatherly

How to break free of the bystander effect and help someone in trouble

Be the hero you want to be. | Popular Science

Can You Reverse Lung Damage?

From Covid-19 to wildfires, 2020 has been an assault on the lungs. | Elemental