A few weeks ago, a teammate of mine showed up to our Saturday morning run sniffling, apologised, and then said something I have heard a dozen times since: It is just a cold, do not worry. By Tuesday, three of…
I once watched a teammate swallow, wince, and then announce he was fine to play. His throat looked like it had been sandpapered from the inside, he had a fever, and he’d barely slept — but because he could still…
Last winter, a friend of mine texted our whole running group the same message nobody wants to get: “I’ve got pneumonia. Sorry, I was coughing all through Saturday’s run.” That message made me ask: is pneumonia contagious? Within minutes, the…
Is bronchitis contagious? Last month, a teammate of mine turned up to training with a cough he’d already had for two weeks. Don’t worry, he said, grinning between coughs, I’m not contagious anymore. It’s just the cough that’s left. Half…
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: getting the all-clear at your checkup might be exactly why nobody’s spotting the real problem. Picture this. You go in for your annual visit, the nurse wraps the cuff around your arm,…
Most of us think of dementia as something that belongs to very old age — a worry for seventy-somethings, not for people in their thirties and forties. A massive new study just challenged that comfortable assumption, and if you have…
I remember the exact moment I stopped treating mRNA like a buzzword. A friend of mine — marathon runner, never missed a 5 a.m. training session — got a melanoma diagnosis at 34. Surgery removed it, but for two years…
I’ll be honest: when I saw “measles” in a 2026 headline, I figured someone had their dates mixed up. That was supposed to be the disease our grandparents worried about — wiped out, filed away in history books, done. But…
Imagine building your whole life around an illness for five years — the medications, the wheelchair, the identity — and then walking into your doctor’s office and hearing: “Congratulations, you don’t have MS.” That’s exactly what happened to Christina Applegate…
Nobody touched him — which is exactly why the Terry McLaurin knee injury has every athlete rattled. That’s what made a whole stadium go quiet on Monday night. Commanders star Terry McLaurin ran a routine out route against the 49ers,…