by John McMillan | Feb 6, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan You trust your doctor. You trust the evening news. You trust that someone, somewhere, is paying attention to the numbers. But what if that trust is the very thing putting you at risk? Not because skepticism should slide into...
by John McMillan | Jan 30, 2026 | Cancer, Health
Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person. For years, epidemiologists have noticed that people with cancer seem less likely to develop Alzheimer’s,...
by John McMillan | Jan 30, 2026 | COVID-19
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan On January 27, 2026, the BBC reported what epidemiologists had long feared: Nipah virus had surfaced again, this time in India’s West Bengal state. Thailand immediately began screening passengers at airports. Two confirmed...
by John McMillan | Dec 19, 2025 | Cancer
Vikram Niranjan, University of Limerick When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths across countries, I found myself pausing as the numbers loaded on the screen. Even as a scientist used to...
by John McMillan | Dec 19, 2025 | Neuroscience
Charlotte Entwistle, University of Liverpool Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect. Whether in a quick text message, a...
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