Anish Vij
Anish Vij covers consumer health and medical news for LADbible, grounding stories in expert warnings, subtle symptoms and the lived experience of patients and their families. He is a journalist on the LADbible news team and also writes across sister title UNILAD within the wider group. His published bio notes advanced training in multimedia journalism and recognition in the GG2 Young Journalist of the Year awards.
Warnings about everyday risks
Warnings from doctors and health practitioners sit at the centre of much of Vij’s work. He writes pieces where health experts flag how seemingly routine changes, such as the autumn clock change, can carry health implications and prompt official advice to the public. In another recurring pattern he reports on clinicians’ appeals to specific groups, such as a doctor urging men who “don’t know what their baseline is” to check themselves for signs of testicular cancer.
He also covers cases where everyday products and habits carry serious consequences, including a teenager hospitalised for weeks and “fighting for his life” after vaping led to lung failure.
The same focus on risk and overuse runs through his coverage of common medicines, such as a practitioner warning that regular users of the heartburn drug omeprazole can face “two problems” after taking it. Across these stories he presents direct quotes and clear explanations from health professionals, with headlines that foreground the warning and its relevance to readers’ daily lives.
'Subtle' signs, symptoms and early detection
Vij repeatedly returns to the theme of early detection and the danger of symptoms that are easy to miss. In a piece on colorectal cancer, he highlights “subtle” signs of the disease and notes that colon, or bowel, cancer is increasingly common in younger adults, with a steady rise in cases since 2004.
He gives similar weight to bodily awareness in his testicular cancer coverage, where the emphasis is on knowing one’s own normal and spotting changes that warrant a check. Human stories often bring those themes into sharper focus, such as his report on a woman who was told she was cancer free before later being given three years to live, framed within the wider context of cancer reporting and prognosis.
Together, these articles show a consistent interest in how people first notice something is wrong, how long they wait before seeking help, and what doctors say about acting on those early clues.
Question-led explainers on minds, sleep and behaviour
Alongside physical illness, Vij writes question-led explainers on mental health and sleep, often built around expert checklists and plain-language guidance. One widely shared piece sets out the twelve questions a doctor uses to assess whether a patient might have ADHD, alongside the statistic that ADHD medication use has increased seven-fold in the last ten years.
Another takes a more lifestyle angle, as an expert walks through what thirteen of the most common dreams could mean, treating sleep and dreaming as part of the broader health and wellbeing conversation.
His coverage of the clock change and its effects, and of everyday stressors that disturb sleep or concentration, sits in the same space where medical insight meets daily routine. These stories tend to turn clinical concepts into concrete questions a reader can ask themselves about mood, attention, rest and recovery.
Technology, culture and health stories
Vij’s health beat also extends into technology and culture when they shape how people understand risk.
In one piece, a man describes how an Apple Watch notification urging him to seek medical attention “saved his life”, with the article exploring how consumer wearables can flag serious underlying problems. He has also written on entertainment figures when loss and public grief are the focus, including coverage of Matt LeBlanc’s emotional statement after the death of his former co-star Matthew Perry.
Across these stories he keeps the tone direct and accessible, using familiar names and devices to bring health, mortality and safety into everyday conversation.
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