This week’s story about bone density was supposed to run last week.
We pulled it because new information had come out days earlier. Some of the data deserved another look.
So three editors, including me, went back through it with the writer. Line by line, claim by claim, against the original sources. It took another week.
What came out the other side is in this issue. It tells you why routine bone screening is set at 65 when the fastest loss happens more than a decade earlier, what the tools are to get scanned sooner, and what to say at your appointment.
I’m telling you this because it’s the reason for what comes next.
When I ask what you want more of, the answer is always health. You want to know what’s actually true, who decided it, and why nobody told you sooner, including the parts where the nuance matters and things get a little complicated.
That reporting takes time. It doesn’t fit in a Thursday newsletter alongside everything else.
So in mid-October, it gets its own.
Our new health newsletter, Well/Actually, will land every Wednesday morning, and it’s free. Health news, features, and reporting move there, with more of it and more often. We’ll follow the breaking news and important stories in women’s health.
And every week you’ll hear from Susan Spencer, our senior editor for wellness. Susan sits on the National Advisory Council for the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, served on the board of WomenHeart, and spent eight years as editor-in-chief of Woman’s Day, reaching 15 million women. She knows how health guidance gets made and how it reaches us. Those are two different things, and both matter.
We’re hiring new writers for this coverage and we’re bringing together a medical advisory board.
You asked us to go deeper. Here it is.
Look for the sign-up box below. It’s free, and it’s separate from Thursday.
