Health coverage online ranges from rigorous medical-journal reporting to clickbait wellness content, often on the same homepage. WeSearch's health hub focuses on the rigorous end — medical-press reporting plus serious public-health journalism — and excludes wellness content that doesn't reference primary research.
What's in this hub
Medical press. Stat News, BMJ, the Lancet (editorial), JAMA Network (editorial), Nature Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine (editorial), Clinical Trials Update.
Public-health journalism. Kaiser Health News, Health Affairs, ProPublica Health, the Atlantic Health, the New Yorker Health, Reuters Health, NPR Health, NYT Well, Washington Post Health.
Pandemic and infectious disease. CIDRAP, Helen Branswell at Stat, ProMED, ECDC, CDC.
Mental health. Mental Floss Health, Stat Mental Health, BMJ Mental Health, BMJ Open Mental Health.
Health policy. KFF, Health Affairs, the Hill Health, Politico Health, Bloomberg Health.
What you'll find here
- Major paper coverage (with primary-source links)
- FDA approvals and regulatory news
- Public-health policy and pandemic response
- Hospital and provider news
- Drug pricing and access reporting
- Mental-health beat reporting
- Investigative health journalism
What you won't find here
Wellness content that doesn't reference primary research. Diet and supplement marketing. Crystal-healing wellness. Anti-vaccine content (we hide it under our editorial standards as factually unsupported public-health misinformation, and we'd rather have a smaller hub with a higher bar than a wider hub with bad-faith content).
How to use the health hub well
- Click through to the original study. Health journalism is full of "small study suggests..." headlines that overrepresent preliminary findings. The abstract usually clarifies sample size and effect size in ways the headline doesn't.
- Cross-reference with the science hub. Many health stories are basic-science findings filtered into clinical implications. The science hub often has the original-research framing.
- Subscribe to push by topic. Settings → Notifications → Watches → Keywords. Examples: "Alzheimer", "obesity", "antibiotic resistance", "long covid".
- Use comment threads carefully. Working clinicians and researchers sometimes post substantive context; lay opinions on health questions are not always reliable. Cite primary sources when in doubt.
What we're working on adding
Better international public-health coverage (we're stronger on US and UK health press than on coverage from the Global South). Better mental-health-specific coverage. Better preprint-aware coverage as preprint use accelerates.