Articles by brandonb
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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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Wearable foundation models: a brief history (empirical.health)

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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/sites/amyfeldman)

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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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Researchers uncover possible cause of muscle pain from cholesterol medication (medicalxpress.com)

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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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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)

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TabFM: A zero-shot foundation model for tabular data (research.google)

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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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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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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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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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FDA to launch pilot program to speed up early-stage clinical trials (statnews.com)

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Health insurance claim denial rates range from 13% to 35% by insurer (randalolson.com)

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Vagus Atlas Explorer (drsiyarb.github.io)

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An Autism Challenge (cremieux.xyz)

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P-Tau217 as a Reliable Blood-Based Marker of Alzheimer's Disease (nih.gov)

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Cholesterol Guidelines Get a Welcome Overhaul (bloomberg.com)

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21-year-old Stanford grad raised $11M to put a hormone lab on your wrist (fortune.com)

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AppleOS 27 (cupertinolens.com)

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Why AI Will Accelerate Health Care Inflation (healthaffairs.org)

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Covid vaccination cut risk of adverse heart events, large study finds (statnews.com)

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Digital Sleep-Wake Cycle Metrics and Dementia Prediction in Older Adults (jamanetwork.com)

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Zero Calcium. Doubled Plaque (substance-over-noise.beehiiv.com)

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Digital health companies seek lasting edge amid GLP-1 gold rush (techtarget.com)

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Trouble Ahead for GLP-1 Drugs as Health Plans Stop Paying (forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen)

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WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding (cupertinolens.com)

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AI Model Predicts 10-Year Stroke Risk Based on Routine Cardiology Test (massgeneralbrigham.org)

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The effects of foods on LDL cholesterol levels (sciencedirect.com)

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Transformers are inherently succinct (openreview.net)

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What to Expect from Apple's AI, Siri and iOS 27 Launch at WWDC (bloomberg.com)

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Google Is in Damage Control over Its New Health App (gizmodo.com)

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Passive heart-rate monitoring during smartphone use in everyday life (nature.com)

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Why Local Minima Are Rare in High-Dimensional Landscapes (grantstenger.com)

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Patient-reported treatment outcomes in ME/CFS and long Covid (pnas.org)

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Eggs are now officially healthy (empirical.health)

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Pig liver and kidneys transplanted into a person, could ease organ shortages (nature.com)

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In Pursuit of Understanding the Crash in Me/CFS (likeannopeningbandforthesun.substack.co...

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Development and validation of a digital biomarker for peripheral artery disease (nature.com)

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Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Explained for Regular People (likeannopeningbandforthesun.substack.co...

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Preservatives linked to high blood pressure and heart disease in new study (scitechdaily.com)

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

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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)