brandonb

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Contrastive foundation model for ECG-based prediction of cardiovascular diseases(thelancet.com)
2 points by brandonb 9d ago|0 comments
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U.S. Health Officials Move Quickly to Deploy Medical A.I. Despite Concerns(nytimes.com)
11 points by brandonb 12d ago|1 comments
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Interview with a cardiologist on Novartis, Novo Nordisk drug failures(statnews.com)
2 points by brandonb 15d ago|0 comments
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Democrats Are Plotting Government Efficiency in a Post-DOGE World(washingtonsun.com)
4 points by brandonb 16d ago|0 comments
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by brandonb 17d ago
The 4th generation heart rate sensor is quite interesting -- Apple Watch used to sample every ~5 minutes, and now it's every 5 seconds (basically continuous). I think that'll enable a lot of interesting health & wellness use c
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ARPA-H to invest $62M to develop FDA-authorized AI for heart failure(statnews.com)
2 points by brandonb 17d ago|0 comments
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Routine blood testing may hold hidden clues to colorectal cancer before age 45(cnn.com)
4 points by brandonb 17d ago|0 comments
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Medicare spending to account for 44% of the federal deficit in 10 years(axios.com)
4 points by brandonb 17d ago|0 comments
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Rumor: Apple Watch will use microphoneto generate daily AI recaps(9to5mac.com)
2 points by brandonb 17d ago|0 comments
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Tutorial on OpenAI's sphere packing result(empirical.health)
2 points by brandonb 17d ago|0 comments
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California winemaker Tom Rinaldi has died(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by brandonb 18d ago|1 comments
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Learning Human Health and Diseases from 24-Hour Wrist Movement(arxiv.org)
3 points by brandonb 18d ago|0 comments
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Another Heart Drug Fails, Surprising Cardiologists(nytimes.com)
3 points by brandonb 21d ago|0 comments
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Pushdown automata in statistical machine translation (2014)(dl.acm.org)
13 points by brandonb 24d ago|4 comments
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by brandonb 25d ago
UCSF puts on a "Mini Med School" series of lectures for the public. If you don't live near San Francisco, some of the video are online. One by Dr. Scheinman is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm3SwORdBS4
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High-Dimensional Sphere Packing and Error Correcting Codes(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by brandonb 25d ago|1 comments
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by brandonb 25d ago
Good thing is that all of these conditions have screening and treatments, so you can do something about it.
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by brandonb 25d ago
This is a good addition. I'll update the article. While tadalafil is not FDA-approved for this indication, it looks like current American Urological Association guidelines do recommend it as an off-label use.
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AI giants lean into health care to stall public backlash(axios.com)
4 points by brandonb 26d ago|0 comments
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by brandonb 26d ago
(Replied to a comment that was since deleted) IMO 34.6% is a surprisingly high number, especially in that age range. Most men in their 30's would have a CAC of 0, so being able to observe soft plaque through these newer imaging modalit
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Cardiac imaging study found plaque in 34.6% of men in their 30s(empirical.health)
10 points by brandonb 26d ago|5 comments
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Apple's Phil Schiller Steps Down from Running App Store, Product Events(bloomberg.com)
5 points by brandonb 26d ago|1 comments
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Cialis is promoted as a longevity drug. How does it compare to boring medicine?(empirical.health)
3 points by brandonb 26d ago|2 comments
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New cardiovascular drug reduces oxidized phospholipids(acc.org)
3 points by brandonb 26d ago|1 comments
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by brandonb 26d ago
Lepodisiran is a drug in clinical trials which reduces Lp(a), the strongest hereditary risk factor for heart disease. This study analyzed the trial results and found it also reduced oxidized lipids, namely oxidized apoB. These are LDL chole
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by brandonb 26d ago
Related and worth reading: The Third Culture by the former executive editor of Wired (when Wired was good): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.279.5353.992
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Orders to distillers are down in part due to tariffs(wsj.com)
1 points by brandonb 26d ago|0 comments
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Birth order and disease risk across the human phenome(nature.com)
1 points by brandonb 26d ago|0 comments
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Unpacking OpenAI's sphere packing result(empirical.health)
1 points by brandonb 26d ago|0 comments
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Apple Watch Ultra 4 will differentiate itself from prior models(9to5mac.com)
1 points by brandonb 26d ago|0 comments

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