Meryl Davids Landau

Boca Raton, United States

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Author of IPPY-award-winning mindfulness/yoga novel Warrior Won. Longtime magazine and web science, health & climate writer.

Articles

Décryptage : Shield, le test sanguin pour détecter le cancer colorectal

1 week ago | nationalgeographic.fr | Meryl Davids Landau |Torsten Wittmann

Aux États-Unis, comme en France, le cancer du côlon est le deuxième cancer le plus meurtrier. Cela pousse les experts à inciter les adultes au dépistage régulier, mais beaucoup les évitent à cause de leur caractère désagréable, invasif et chronophage. Alors quand la Food and Drug Association (FDA, équivalent de l’ANSM en France) a annoncé, aux États-Unis l’an dernier, avoir approuvé le premier test de dépistage sanguin, la nouvelle s’est vite répandue.
A new blood test can tell if cancer has returned months before a scan

3 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.com | Meryl Davids Landau

When Jennifer Feenstra was diagnosed with advanced, aggressive lung cancer five years ago, she didn’t waste time fretting about how she, a non-smoking fitness buff, could have gotten the disease. Instead, the 59-year-old retired graphic designer from Stamford, Connecticut, was determined to throw everything at it. After surgeons at the Yale Cancer Center removed part of her right lung, she endured four rounds of grueling chemotherapy followed by three years of additional medicine.
Quick Health Checks Every Woman Over 40 Should Try

1 month ago | preventionaus.com.au | Meryl Davids Landau

You wouldn’t skip a car service when it hits the 8,000km mark—but many of us wait until something starts hurting before we pay attention to our bodies. However, taking care of your body today can help you stay active and pain-free in the years to come, says orthopaedic surgeon Dr Matthew Motisi. Even if most of your body feels fine, early issues in your spine can quietly affect the way you move, rest, and feel.
The ability to reverse damage to your lungs and heart is tantalizingly close

1 month ago | nationalgeographic.com | Meryl Davids Landau

In the 1986 movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Dr. McCoy hands a dialysis patient a single pill and she immediately grows a new kidney. That’s the holy grail of regenerative medicine, and it has proven frustratingly elusive. When disease damages crucial organs like the heart or lungs, the best doctors can generally do is stop the harm from worsening.
How to Tell How Healthy You Are, According to Doctors

1 month ago | prevention.com | Meryl Davids Landau

You service your car every 5,000 miles or so, but perhaps like many others you pay attention to the needs of your body only when bits and pieces start breaking down. As a reader of this magazine, you clearly know that’s a mistake. Preventive measures now will pay off with better living down the road, says Matthew Motisi, D.O., an orthopedic surgeon at Baptist Health Orthopedic Care in Miami.
Why you shouldn't ignore lentils and peas-protein-packed superfoods

1 month ago | brnw.ch | Meryl Davids Landau

Beans hog the nutritional spotlight in the kitchen and on TikTok, but their fellow legumes lentils and peas pack high nutritional punches, too. These foods are so full of protein, fiber, and antioxidants that the American diet should be brimming with them, according to a recent report by the U.S. government’s 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Various legumes are staples in Indian, Middle Eastern, and other cuisines but rare in classic American fare.
Why you shouldn't ignore lentils and peas-protein-packed superfoods

2 months ago | nationalgeographic.com | Meryl Davids Landau

Beans hog the nutritional spotlight in the kitchen and on TikTok, but their fellow legumes lentils and peas pack high nutritional punches, too. These foods are so full of protein, fiber, and antioxidants that the American diet should be brimming with them, according to a recent report by the U.S. government’s 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Various legumes are staples in Indian, Middle Eastern, and other cuisines but rare in classic American fare.
Are These Cholesterol Myths Harming Your Health?

2 months ago | preventionaus.com.au | Meryl Davids Landau

Social media is abuzz with bewildering (and even worrisome) theories about cholesterol and the medications used to lower it. We sort out what’s truth, what’s error, and what’s conspiracy to help you keep your heart healthy and strong. If your doctor has reported that your cholesterol is too high, join the club. About 8.4% of Australian (approximately 2.1 million) self-reported having high cholesterol in 2022, which has increased from 6.8% in 2011–12.
Cholesterol Conspiracies Cardiologists Want You to Stop Believing—and Facts Worth Knowing

2 months ago | prevention.com | Meryl Davids Landau

Social media is abuzz with bewildering (and even worrisome) theories about cholesterol and the medications used to lower it. We sort out what’s truth, what’s error, and what’s conspiracy to help you keep your heart healthy and strong. If your doctor has reported that your cholesterol is too high, join the club. About a third of American adults—some 86 million of us—have levels that are higher than ideal. The same goes for 7% of U.S. kids.
Should you get a measles booster? Here's how to protect yourself amid the recent outbreaks.

Feb 28, 2025 | nationalgeographic.com | Meryl Davids Landau

Despite being declared eliminated in the U.S. a quarter century ago, measles has infected 146 people in northwest Texas in the past two months, killing one child. Other smaller outbreaks are happening in New Mexico, California, Georgia, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and other states. Most of the cases are in children, but more than two dozen of the Texas patients are adults. What most infected individuals have in common is that the vast majority were not protected by the measles vaccine.