Essays from our clinicians and concierge team on preventive medicine, longevity research, and the patients whose journeys shape how we work.
New reading, updated regularly. Every essay is written, edited, and reviewed in-house by our clinical and concierge teams.
Sarcopenia is low muscle strength together with low muscle quantity or quality. A 2022 meta-analysis of 692,056 people put its prevalence at...
The USPSTF graded clinician skin cancer screening in asymptomatic adults an I statement in April 2023. A lesion you already noticed is a dif...
White matter hyperintensities are bright patches on a brain MRI, common with age and linked to small vessel disease. A BMJ meta-analysis poo...
Atrial fibrillation is associated with a near fivefold excess of stroke, and in one registry of 15,308 people with a first episode, 32% had...
Holiday dialysis in Taiwan means booking sessions at a local unit after your home unit sends your prescription, recent treatment records, bl...
In a meta-analysis of 1.38 million people, long sleepers had a 1.30-fold risk of death, higher than short sleepers' 1.12. Long sleep is usua...
In 10,001 adults with a mean age of 53, more visceral fat on MRI went with lower grey matter volume (r = −0.44), and a 6,583-person cohort l...
Through New Dawn Health, an upper endoscopy and colonoscopy in one sedated session costs $499 in Taipei, and an upper endoscopy added to a s...
Adults are advised to sleep 7 or more hours, but hours in bed and sleep quality are different measures. In the UK Biobank, about 7 hours wen...