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How the Apple Watch defined modern health tech (theverge.com)

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ARPA-H launches $144M microplastics program (hhs.gov)

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Three main saturated fats raise your cholesterol (empirical.health)

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Samsung's Blood Pressure Monitoring Feature Now Available (samsung.com)

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American Heart Association dietary guidance counter to some MAHA guidelines (theguardian.com)

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Whoop, a wearable device maker, raises $575M (nytimes.com)

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Powerful cholesterol drug cuts heart attack risk by 31% (sciencedaily.com)

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Oura Ring Helps Uncover Multiple Cases of Lymphoma (cnet.com)

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Apple Pivots Its AI Strategy to App Store, Search-Like Platform Approach (bloomberg.com)

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Demystifying Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Tool-Using Agents (arxiv.org)

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Rising health costs push some middle-aged adults to skip the doc until Medicare (usatoday.com)

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Health: Science Outran the System (juliahawkins.substack.com)

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OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO) (om.co)

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Improving breast cancer screening workflows with machine learning (research.google)

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Insulin resistance prediction from wearables and routine blood biomarkers (nature.com)

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BioNTech founders to depart, form new mRNA-focused company (statnews.com)

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Changes to cardiovascular guidelines suggest taking statins as young as 30 (statnews.com)

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When Your Apple Watch Becomes an Office Taskmaster (nytimes.com)

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The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)

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Below 40? You Should Be Getting Screened for Cholesterol, Heart Attack Risks (wsj.com)

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Lp(a) testing is now recommended to prevent heart disease (npr.org)

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New cholesterol guidelines recommend earlier treatment (empirical.health)

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Research Links Daily Multivitamins to Slower Biological Aging (sci.news)

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The Peptide Wild West (substance-over-noise.beehiiv.com)

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Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B seed round (bloomberg.com)

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Healthcare is AI's hardest test (time.com)

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Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year (techcrunch.com)

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Should you take a supplement for heart health? Here's what the science says (washingtonpost.com)

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Review: Aktiia Hilo Blood Pressure Monitor (wired.com)

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UnitedHealth promised transparency. Instead, it's cutting back key disclosures (statnews.com)

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ARPA-H launching new AI program for 46% of US counties with no cardiologists (statnews.com)

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CMS halts enrollment in Elevance/Anthem, citing years of misconduct (statnews.com)

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MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI (techcrunch.com)

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WatchGuardian: Enabling User-Defined Just-in-Time Intervention on Smartwatch (acm.org)

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Why reinforcement learning breaks at scale, and how a new method fixes it (techxplore.com)

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Data-Driven Nutrition (empirical.health)

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What high blood pressure does to your body (washingtonpost.com)

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OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement with Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash (nytimes.com)

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Why rich people live longer (empirical.health)

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Only 3 saturated fats raise cholesterol (empirical.health)

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Heritability of longevity is 55%, in new study (statnews.com)

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Former gov tech leaders are prepping day-one plans for a future administration (nextgov.com)

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Federal panel behind cancer screening recommendations hasn't met in one year (nbcnews.com)

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Heart attack deaths are rising in young adults. Here's why (empirical.health)

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Heart attack deaths rose between 2011 and 2022 among adults younger than age 55 (heart.org)

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Apple built hypertension notifications for Apple Watch (computerworld.com)

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2-3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk (nytimes.com)

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Fibermaxxing Is a Diet Trend Even Nutritionists Can Love (bloomberg.com)

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Model bill for AI doctors [pdf] (ciceroinstitute.org)

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Blood Feud: Oura's Health Panels versus Whoop's Advanced Labs (wired.com)

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A federal experiment opens up a new market for digital health – if it works (endpoints.news)

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Men develop heart disease 7 years before women (empirical.health)

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OpenClaw Meets Healthcare (evestel.substack.com)

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Women's heart attack risk rises even if arteries aren't as clogged as men's (statnews.com)

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The Flawed V02 Max Craze (erictopol.substack.com)

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Apple researchers develop on-device AI agent that interacts with apps for you (9to5mac.com)

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The Government Is Hiring Tech People Again (presentofcoding.substack.com)

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Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) labs scrapped (fiercehealthcare.com)

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I Shut Down My Bootstrapped Health AI Startup After 7 Years (glassboxmedicine.com)

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$4 Doctor: How Utah Authorized Autonomous AI to Renew Prescriptions (theprescription.substack.com)

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The government wants AI doctors (empirical.health)

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A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Good For? (nytimes.com)

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How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? (usatoday.com)

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For $1M, you can pay Bryan Johnson (or BryanAI?) to teach you how to live longer (techcrunch.com)

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New way to predict your risk of a heart attack (time.com)

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Bryan Johnson's Immortals program costs $1M. How to DIY it <1% of the price (empirical.health)

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High-deductible health plans associated with 46% worse mortality (jamanetwork.com)

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Why do rich people live longer? (empirical.health)

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Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (nih.gov)

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Do rich people live longer? (empirical.health)

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Apple Is Scaling Back Plans for New AI-Based Health Coach Service (bloomberg.com)

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Apple reportedly scales back plans for AI-powered health coach (9to5mac.com)

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Meta-analysis claims statins are safer than previously thought (thelancet.com)

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U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high (scientificamerican.com)

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Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Health (empirical.health)

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Kleiner Perkins was written off. Then an unlikely VC showed up (fortune.com)

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Men develop cardiovascular disease 7 years earlier than women. Why? (empirical.health)

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A multimodal sleep foundation model for disease prediction (nature.com)

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Men's heart attack risk climbs by mid-30s, years before women (northwestern.edu)

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Curbing unnecessary Vitamin D testing (nejm.org)

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Shaping capabilities with token-level data filtering (arxiv.org)

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Lp(a): the strongest hereditary risk factor for heart disease (empirical.health)

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Unsupervised Sentiment Neuron (2017) (openai.com)

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Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why? (empirical.health)

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Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level (uni-bonn.de)

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I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor (washingtonpost.com)

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Why Ramp Won (operatorjournal.substack.com)

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Quantum Machine Learning Is Emerging as a Practical Tool for Drug Discovery (thequantuminsider.com)

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Tim Cook taps John Ternus to oversee Apple's design teams (9to5mac.com)

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Ramp vs. Brex: How the underdog won (productmarketfit.tech)

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Cholesterol levels cut in half with one-time gene editing drug in trial (nbcnews.com)

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Health trackers know you didn't sleep well. Does that help or hurt? (bloomberg.com)

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Health insurance execs shift blame for costly, confusing health care system (statnews.com)

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Brex CFO Erica Dorfman's Take on the Capital One Deal (cfo.com)

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Smartwatches detect abnormal heart rhythms 4x more often in clinical trial (usnews.com)

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It's Time for Primary Prevention in Medicine (erictopol.substack.com)

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Rewards Are Everywhere (agenticposts.substack.com)

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Generative UI: A rich, custom, visual interactive user experience for any prompt (research.google)

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Heart Disease and Stroke Behind Quarter of All Deaths in U.S. (nytimes.com)

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Former USDS Leaders Launch Tech Reform Project to Fix What DOGE Broke (wired.com)