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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)

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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)

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Objective metrics that change the most as we age (empirical.health)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Pivoting Out of Healthcare (saffron.health)

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Oura, Maker of Popular Smart Rings, Files Confidentially for IPO (bloomberg.com)

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Vitamin D acts more like a hormone than a vitamin (empirical.health)

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Kennedy Fires Leaders of Key Health Task Force (nytimes.com)

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Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea (techcrunch.com)

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Bartenders at a Cocktail Mecca Propose a New Concoction: A Micro-Union (nytimes.com)

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Metformin may work via the gut, not the liver (medicalxpress.com)

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Four Lp(a)-lowering drugs in trials reduce levels by up to 94% (empirical.health)

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Sleep polysomnography predicts 130 health conditions, including CVD (empirical.health)

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Omega-3 supplements may be linked to faster cognitive decline in seniors (medicalxpress.com)

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It's time to test all adults for lipoprotein(a) (lipidjournal.com)

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The invisible force making food less nutritious (washingtonpost.com)

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Every statin ranked by effect size (empirical.health)

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HealthFormer: Transformers for irregular electronic health record events [pdf] (medrxiv.org)

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The Paradox of Medical AI Implementation (erictopol.substack.com)

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A Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform (eatingpolicy.com)

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The Fick equation and your heart (empirical.health)

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Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes (washingtonpost.com)

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Cigna to quit health insurance exchanges (modernhealthcare.com)

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Using physiological ODEs and DNNs to estimate VO2Max (empirical.health)

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A Licensure Framework for Autonomous Clinical AI (jamanetwork.com)

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NOEM: Finite element method enabled by reusable neural operators (nature.com)

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AI spots pancreatic cancer years before it shows up, study finds (bloomberg.com)

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FDA launches effort to speed up clinical trials using AI (statnews.com)

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A Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path (wired.com)

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Rectal cancer deaths rising rapidly among millennials: 'It's a medical crisis.' (nbcnews.com)

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Apple Machine Learning Research at ICLR 2026 (machinelearning.apple.com)

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Medications can now lower LDL cholesterol by 80% (empirical.health)

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Should Your Patient Be on Statins? Maybe the Eyes Can Tell (medscape.com)

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Strategy to reduce >350k yearly deaths From heart disease by 2050 (nih.gov)

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Unmasking the Creator of Bitcoin (nytimes.com)

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How Healthy Are Oats? (nytimes.com)

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Genetic architecture of sleep in a GWAS of wearable-measured sleep traits (nature.com)

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Men's heart risk rises by age 35, 7 years earlier than women (empirical.health)

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A four-month FDA delay forced a small biotech company to close its doors (statnews.com)

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Trial by Fire: Crisis Engineering (eatingpolicy.com)

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Medicare dips a toe into hemp for seniors (axios.com)

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Why are so many young adults dying of heart attacks? (empirical.health)

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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)