MYSTERIOUS: Brooke nickel - What They Never Told You

Forget T-maxxing – the manosphere’s obsession with testosterone is just fear-maxxing

Testosterone replacement therapy comes with serious and potentially irreversible health risks including infertility and early heart disease

The Guardian - AU · Sep 1

Ads call ovarian cancer a ‘silent killer’. But does urging women to undergo early detection testing do more harm than good?

Website offering blood check is aimed at people with a higher risk of disease – and false positives can create fear

The Guardian - AU · Jul 21

Influencers are promoting these three health tests – but they risk doing more harm than good

Experts warn of ‘over-diagnosis’ dangers as social media prompts the worried well to seek out unnecessary and expensive scans and blood tests

The Guardian - AU · Mar 24

We analysed almost 1,000 social media posts about 5 popular medical tests. Most were utterly misleading

When Kim Kardashian posted on Instagram about having had a full-body MRI, she enthused that the test can be “life saving”, detecting diseases in the earliest stages before symptoms arise.

The Conversation · Feb 26, 2025

Social media influencers are ‘fearmongering’ to promote health tests with limited evidence, study finds

Researchers warn of harms of overdiagnosis for generally healthy people as well as the cost of tests themselves

The Guardian - AU · Feb 26, 2025

Kim Kardashian recommends a full-body MRI scan – should I get one?

The tests are presented as a way to detect early cancers or ‘silent killers’ – but are they a good idea if I’m otherwise healthy?

The Guardian - AU · Oct 9, 2024

Elle Macpherson’s breast cancer: when the media reports on celebrity cancer, are we really getting the whole story?

Celebrity supermodel Elle Macpherson disclosed in an interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly earlier this week that seven years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

The Conversation · Sep 5, 2024

Crucial information missing in Elle Macpherson breast cancer story, experts warn

Many media reports based on the supermodel’s interview with the Australian Women’s Weekly lack detail about the cancer and risk misinforming people

The Guardian - AU · Sep 4, 2024

Breast cancer screening in Australia may change. Here’s what we know so far

The way women are screened for breast cancer in Australia may change.

The Conversation · Jul 4, 2024

Companies marketing useless health products to women using feminist wellbeing messages

Researchers find promotions encouraging women to take charge of their health could lead to overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment

The Guardian - AU · Feb 14, 2024