Read the Body. Not the Panic.

How we cover Health

The health room operates by an old rule from the bedside: panic and false reassurance fail the patient in the same direction. SignalPop's health coverage tries the slower thing. We pull from Reuters Health, the Associated Press, STAT News, The New York Times health desk, The BMJ, The Lancet, and direct from the FDA, CDC, NIH, and WHO when they publish — the primary sources that the wires are summarizing an afternoon later. The page emphasizes peer-reviewed research, regulatory decisions (drug approvals, recalls, warning letters), public-health surveillance, and the policy fights that shape what care costs and who can get it. We are explicitly skeptical of single-study news, of the nutritional epidemiology that reverses itself every five years, and of preprint coverage where peer review has not finished its job. Linked to is not caused by. Relative risk is not absolute risk. Sensationalized health headlines tend to lose ground in the feed even when the underlying study is real. Nothing here is medical advice. Every story is one click from the publication that did the reporting and, where available, the research it cites.