For how we live.
4 articles published between January 25, 2026 and September 23, 2026.
Hoarseness affects nearly a third of people at some point. Most cases are viral and settle on their own; voice therapy helps persistent ones, and a voice change lasting weeks needs a look at the vocal cords.
Two things you do in bed have randomised evidence for nocturnal reflux: raising the head of the bed cut acid exposure from 21% to 15%, and a device that kept people on their left side nearly doubled treatment success.
A double-blind trial gave 17,598 people pantoprazole or placebo for three years and tracked pneumonia, fractures, kidney disease and dementia. Only gut infections rose, and only modestly.
An Israeli case-control study found an apparent fourfold risk that vanished once the year before diagnosis was excluded. A Nordic study of 17,232 cancers found no association at all.