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Fight for Control over New York's Charter Schools Is Escalating(nysfocus.com)
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FDA staff and peptide enthusiasts set to clash at advisory panel(statnews.com)
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Lung cancer in nonsmokers: A women's health crisis(cbsnews.com)
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Is BPC-157 legal in 2026? What the FDA found(empirical.health)
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Hilo Raises $19M for Blood Pressure Wearables(insider.fitt.co)
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Cancer testing company raises $300M as it goes public(bizjournals.com)
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Dementia symptoms that show up years before diagnosis(washingtonpost.com)
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Definitely agreed. I'm rooting for Apple, Samsung, Oura, etc to finally crack this problem and some of the techniques in the article (MIR, Raman spectroscopy, wearable foundation models) seem like they're leading in the right dire
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Why non-invasive glucose monitoring is hard(empirical.health)
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by brandonb 3mo ago
(OP) Updated the title. This was unfortunately a mis-fire of some of HN's automatic title formatting.
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by brandonb 3mo ago
The lead author ran a study of personalized trigger mapping for Afib, using an n-of-1 study design: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/... Unfortunately this particular intervention w
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Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: AHA Scientific Statement(ahajournals.org)
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Capping the price of healthcare is a mistake(nytimes.com)
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by brandonb 3mo ago
This is the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor; it cuts LDL cholesterol (or ApoB) levels by 50-60%. It uses a different mechanism than a statin so you can layer them to get an 80% or so reduction overall. It also reduces Lp(a), the strongest heredi
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Wearable foundation models: a brief history(empirical.health)
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by brandonb 3mo ago
The speed of the pressure wave is one signal that correlates with blood pressure. It's a bit like a string being pulled taut -- waves travel faster with higher pressure. The shape of the wave also gives clues. For example, the rise tim
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by brandonb 3mo ago
Likely uses pulse transit time and the shape of the pulse wave to infer changes in blood pressure. I wrote a bit about how this works (in the context of Apple Watch's hypertension notifications) here: https://www.empirical.h
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Graham's death from aortic dissection raises questions about prevention(statnews.com)
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Smart Ring Aims to Replace the 150-Year-Old Blood Pressure Cuff(bloomberg.com)
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FDA Approves a New Pill to Slash Cholesterol Levels(nytimes.com)
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Trump officials seek public input to overhaul Medicare payment system(washingtonpost.com)
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Chai Discovery, an A.I. Drug Startup, Raises $400M(nytimes.com)
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Charts that explain America's alcohol epidemic(statnews.com)
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OpenAI Plans to Win over Doctors, Patients and Hospitals(forbes.com)
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ARPA-H launches $160M effort to develop custom gene editing drugs(statnews.com)
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OB-GYN pay overhaul spells changes for maternal care(axios.com)
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Nobel-Winning U.S. Chemist Will Move to China to Lead A.I. Institute(nytimes.com)
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Experimental drug reverses fatty liver disease by repairing the gut(sciencedaily.com)
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German lawmakers pass cost-saving bill that drugmakers say will drive them out(endpoints.news)
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Cancer cases worldwide are expected to soar in the coming decades(washingtonpost.com)
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