About & sources
The Health Brief is an automated brief on personal finance. A scheduled job reads the feeds listed below, merges any stories that several outlets are covering into a single entry, and writes a short summary in our own words. We never reproduce the publisher's article text — every entry links straight to the original reporting, and headlines remain the property of the publisher.
Editorial rules
- Short original summaries only (target 45 words), plus a one-line "why it matters".
- Automatic check that no twelve-word span is shared with the source text.
- New stories can be held for review before they appear.
- Corrections, removals and takedown requests: see the contact below — we act on them promptly.
Advertising
Sponsored placements are labelled "Sponsored" and are never styled to look like editorial. They are limited to one unit per five feed items, one per story and one sidebar unit, and no pop-ups or interstitials are used. Ads link to CrowdfundShowcase listings and are marked as such.
How this site works, and what it is not
Stories are written from reporting published by public health bodies, clinical newsrooms and medical journals, and are checked against fixed rules before they appear.
This site does not give medical advice. Nothing here is a diagnosis or a recommendation to take, stop or change any treatment. Speak to a qualified clinician about your own health.
- We do not turn a finding into a cause. Most research shows an association, and we report it as one: "linked to", "associated with", "may".
- We say what kind of evidence it is wherever the source does: an observational study, a randomised trial, a review, or animal and laboratory work. Animal and lab findings are never presented as demonstrated in people.
- We never publish a dose, an amount or a dosing schedule.
- We never recommend a supplement, a diet or a remedy, and we filter out the wellness register - detoxes, immune-boosting claims, "superfoods".
- A finding is attributed to the researchers, journal or agency it came from, and a company describing its own product is identified as doing so.
Feeds we read
| Source | Section | Last successful read |
|---|---|---|
| BBC Health | News | 2026-10-11 03:29:00 |
| FDA News | Regulation | 2026-10-11 03:29:05 |
| KFF Health News | Policy | 2026-10-11 03:29:07 |
| MedPage Today | Clinical | 2026-10-11 03:29:03 |
| MedicalXpress | Research | 2026-10-11 03:29:04 |
| Medscape | Clinical | 2026-10-11 03:29:04 |
| NHS England | Public Health | 2026-10-11 03:29:07 |
| NPR Health | News | 2026-10-11 03:29:01 |
Feeds whose terms restrict commercial reuse are not read and are not listed here.
Contact
We do not publish an email address (it is a magnet for spam). Use the contact form for corrections, removals, takedown requests or anything else — it reaches us directly and we reply to the address you give.