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Development and validation of a digital biomarker for peripheral artery disease(nature.com)
2 points by brandonb 5mo ago|0 comments
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Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Explained for Regular People(likeannopeningbandforthesun.substack.com)
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Preservatives linked to high blood pressure and heart disease in new study(scitechdaily.com)
14 points by brandonb 5mo ago|9 comments
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Vitamin D acts more like a hormone than a vitamin(empirical.health)
18 points by brandonb 5mo ago|7 comments
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New Oura Ring 5 has smaller design and hypertension detection(9to5mac.com)
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Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM(latimes.com)
654 points by brandonb 5mo ago|868 comments
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The Long, Bitter Fight at the Park Slope Food Co-Op(nytimes.com)
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Blood pressure tech floods the market after FDA relaxes wearables oversight(statnews.com)
3 points by brandonb 5mo ago|1 comments
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by brandonb 5mo ago
The graph y axis is showing fractions (i.e., 0.21 is 21%). Sorry for the slightly confusing label.
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by brandonb 5mo ago
For most of these metrics, zero is not a logically possible data point. For example, somebody with an HbA1c of 0 would be dead.
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Objective metrics that change the most as we age(empirical.health)
18 points by brandonb 5mo ago|16 comments
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Blood test added to colorectal cancer screening options by cancer group(nbcnews.com)
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Scientists are raising new questions about vitamin B12 and cancer(sciencedaily.com)
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The effect of sleep on blood biomarkers(empirical.health)
6 points by brandonb 5mo ago|0 comments
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Additive ban could change New York's pizza and bagels, some say for the better(6abc.com)
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Retatrutide's phase 3 results: 30% weight loss in 2 years(empirical.health)
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One-and-Done Heart Disease Prevention? Scientists Show It May Be Possible(nytimes.com)
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Drug overdose deaths drop sharply in the U.S. even as new street drugs emerge(npr.org)
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Nicotine Patches to Treat Long Covid(mcgill.ca)
13 points by brandonb 5mo ago|0 comments
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Takeaways from Democrats' autopsy of Harris's 2024 loss(nytimes.com)
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Eli Lilly's New Weight-Loss Treatment Shows Promising Results(wsj.com)
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Could Universal GLP-1 Drugs End the Obesity Epidemic?(cremieux.xyz)
3 points by brandonb 5mo ago|1 comments
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Pivoting Out of Healthcare(saffron.health)
10 points by brandonb 5mo ago|1 comments
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Oura, Maker of Popular Smart Rings, Files Confidentially for IPO(bloomberg.com)
7 points by brandonb 5mo ago|3 comments
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Vitamin D acts more like a hormone than a vitamin(empirical.health)
2 points by brandonb 5mo ago|0 comments
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Kennedy Fires Leaders of Key Health Task Force(nytimes.com)
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by brandonb 5mo ago
The existing CPT codes (roughly) pay proportionately to physician time (RVUs). So I wouldn't say there's an an incentive toward delivering care efficiently, but rather hospital management wants to maximize billable hours.
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by brandonb 5mo ago
Medicare is a government-run insurance program, so this is one of the few cases where a private insurance company wouldn't receive data. (There is such a thing as Medicare advantage, where a patient can choose to put their Medicare d
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by brandonb 5mo ago
Isn't the first em dash taken from an interview that the writer did with the subject over Zoom? I think using an em dash to punctuate a broken or partial sentence like that is pretty standard journalistic practice when you don't w
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by brandonb 5mo ago
I run a YC startup that was accepted to Medicare ACCESS. Historically, insurance has paid for activity: time spent in visits, RVUs generated, and minutes logged. This was a reasonable starting point, but the flaw is that there's no str

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