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Researchers uncover possible cause of muscle pain from cholesterol medication(medicalxpress.com)
8 points by brandonb 3mo ago|0 comments
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Utah lets AI refill prescriptions. Doctors are wary(apnews.com)
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Millions may be getting the wrong cholesterol test(sciencedaily.com)
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Medicare's health tech spending test(axios.com)
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Combined LDL-C, Lp(a) and HsCRP Assessment Identifies Long-Term Risk of Ascvd(acc.org)
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by brandonb 3mo ago
GLP-1s will cost $50 / month for those eligible. To be eligible, you need either a BMI of >=35, or a BMI of >=27 and a set of specific health conditions (uncontrolled hypertension, chronic kidney disease, pre-diabetes, etc). You
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Medicare starts covering GLP-1 drugs for weight loss(washingtonpost.com)
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LLM-style scaling laws hold for sensor data(empirical.health)
3 points by brandonb 3mo ago|0 comments
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TabFM: A zero-shot foundation model for tabular data(research.google)
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by brandonb 3mo ago
(OP here) Happy to answer questions!
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Wearable foundation models: a brief history(empirical.health)
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Serious statin side effects on muscles are rare, new research confirms(nbcnews.com)
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by brandonb 4mo ago
Very sad news. :(
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Medicare's ACCESS model: outcome-based payment for health technologies(phti.org)
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Machine learning rediscovers equations governing ocean biogeochemistry(phys.org)
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$0 copays could save billions(washingtonpost.com)
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Dietary cholesterol activates a Ral-dependent pathway driving LDLR turnover(nature.com)
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by brandonb 4mo ago
Right now lots of good health companies hiring, including my own (Empirical). https://www.workatastartup.com/ lets you filter YC companies to see health startups, by stage and location (or remote).
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by brandonb 4mo ago
IMO, there's an interesting opportunity for AI to make healthcare deflationary. For example, Medicare is launching a new program in July that pays a fixed rate for achieving defined outcomes, like lowering blood pressure or cholesterol
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U.S. health spending on pace to hit $6T(statnews.com)
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An ECG biomarker for sudden cardiac death discovered with deep learning(nature.com)
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Cardiometabolic Health in Pregnancy(jacc.org)
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FDA drops enforcement against Whoop after it tweaks blood pressure feature(statnews.com)
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Why insurers say ACA premiums must spike in 2027(modernhealthcare.com)
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by brandonb 4mo ago
It's pretty well-established science now that vitamin D is a hormone, not a true vitamin. Vitamin D binds a nuclear receptor that regulates roughly 1,000 to 2,000 genes (5-10% of the human genome). The "Vitamin D" moniker has
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by brandonb 4mo ago
TARGET-D is an in-progress study that supplements vitamin D based on blood levels (your idea).
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by brandonb 4mo ago
Another more recent trial (TARGET-D) is showing a 52% reduction in heart attack risk: https://www.empirical.health/blog/vitamin-d-heart/ That trial used a dynamically-adjusted dosage of a vitamin D3 supplement, w
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How the Midjourney ultrasound project started a war between medicine and tech(argmin.net)
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Doctors Thought It Was Asthma. A.I. Flagged a Serious Heart Problem(nytimes.com)
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Younger generations are aging faster biologically, raising early cancer risks(empirical.health)
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