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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)

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Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (NeurIPS 2025) (venturebeat.com)

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Heart Rate Variability (empirical.health)

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When to treat (or not treat) a high cholesterol (sensible-med.com)

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SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors (research.google)

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AI beyond LLMs: a wearable foundation model (empirical.health)

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Should You Be 'Fibermaxxing'? (nytimes.com)

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Exposing muscle tissue to blood from Long Covid patients weakens mitochondria (iop.org)

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FDA paves way for more consumer wearables to hit the market (fiercehealthcare.com)

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Researchers use Apple Watch to train a disease-detection AI (wareable.com)

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Quest for a drug that lowers an artery-clogging particle nears finish line (washingtonpost.com)

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ARPA-H launches program for the 46% of U.S. counties don't have a cardiologist (statnews.com)

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The role of LDL cholesterol in ASCVD (peterattiamd.com)

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Startup Wants to Bring Cancer Patients Care at Home (wsj.com)

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Apple Watch blood sugar monitoring a step closer as new tech launches (9to5mac.com)

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The Rise of the Self-Serve Blood Test (nytimes.com)

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Artificial intelligence begins prescribing medications in Utah (politico.com)

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Study: People use heart‑monitoring devices but don't share data with doctors (kotatv.com)

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Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)

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Cocktail Science in General (2010) (cookingissues.com)

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High Lp(a) Linked to Ascvd Risk Even When LDL Cholesterol Is Low (tctmd.com)

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Potential-Based Reward Shaping in Reinforcement Learning (medium.com/sophiezhao_2990)

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Medicare unveils new model aimed at functional, lifestyle medicine (fiercehealthcare.com)

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[flagged] Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem (totalhealthoptimization.com)

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Yann LeCun: Intelligence is about learning (ft.com)

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Bayesian Geometry of Transformer Attention (arxiv.org)

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Controlling Blood Sugar Cut Heart Disease Risk in Half, Study Says (nytimes.com)

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Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good for You (nytimes.com)

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Apple Watch detects 89% of sleep apnea (empirical.health)

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Tech Force, a review by the first USDS administrator (medium.com/mikeyd)

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Researchers trained foundation model on 3M days of Apple Watch data (9to5mac.com)

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AI beyond LLMs: a wearable foundation model based on JEPA (empirical.health)

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Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it (nytimes.com)

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Accommodation Nation (theatlantic.com)

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Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows (healthisotherpeople.substack.com)

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The Most Common Signs of a Heart Attack (nytimes.com)

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Biggest prostate cancer screening trial in decades begins in UK (bbc.com)

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Apple Watch's algorithm detects 89% of sleep apnea (empirical.health)

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New Garmin Watch feature to catch early signs of stress and illness (t3.com)

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Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound Is Being Tested as a Treatment for Long Covid (wired.com)

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Fiber reduces overall mortality by 23% (empirical.health)

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5k steps a day could slow cognitive decline in people with signs of Alzheimer's (statnews.com)

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UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups 17% more than outside ones (statnews.com)

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Oura prepares Apple Watch-like hypertension detection for its smart ring (seattletimes.com)

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Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore? (church.substack.com)

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fiber (empirical.health)

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Barriers to the adoption of single-cell LLMs in biomedical research (nature.com)

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Give Your Gums Some Love (nytimes.com)

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OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool (techcrunch.com)

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The four horsemen from Peter Attia's Outlive (empirical.health)

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Claude for Life Sciences Interview (statnews.com)

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Accuracy of Apple Watch VO2 max measurements: A validation study (nih.gov)

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Apple Watch hypertension notifications are now live. What to do if you get one (empirical.health)

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Epic to end startup program that took position in ambient scribe (axios.com)

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UnitedHealthcare's 1999 policy to remove prior auths (healthtechnerds.com)

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Apple's quest to add a heart-rate sensor to AirPods Pro 3 (techradar.com)

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The Recoding America Fund (eatingpolicy.com)

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Focusing on Healthcare's Administrative Costs Is Misguided (cremieux.xyz)

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Apple Watch's hypertension alert misses half cases, but may boost treatment (statnews.com)

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OpenEvidence, the ChatGPT for doctors, raises $200M at $6B valuation (techcrunch.com)

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Concierge Care for all: What would it look like? (thehealthcareblog.com)

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Grail says new data on multi-cancer screening test show improved performance (statnews.com)

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Apple Watch uses deep learning to estimate VO2Max (empirical.health)

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Kohler launches health tracker for your toilet (kohlerhealth.com)

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Counsel Health Grabs $25M for AI-Augmented Healthcare Service (wsj.com)

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The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 (stripe.com)

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Google working on high blood pressure screening with Pixel Watch (9to5google.com)

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Amgen says its cholesterol shot prevented heart problems in a broad population (statnews.com)

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Patients Are Diagnosing Themselves with Home Tests, Devices and Chatbots (wsj.com)

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Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol (empirical.health)

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Whoop's Advanced Labs blood test service is now live in the US (wareable.com)

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Dietary fiber intake and all-cause mortality (nih.gov)

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Agentic Commerce Protocol (developers.openai.com)

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Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease (jacc.org)

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Primary Prevention in Medicine (erictopol.substack.com)

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Predicting and Preventing Alzheimer's Disease (erictopol.substack.com)

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Analysis of OpenEvidence's Business Model (annsomershogg.substack.com)

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Healthcare's messiest relationship: Epic and Abridge (businessinsider.com)

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Pancreatic cancer risk prediction using sequential models (cell.com)

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Predictive Lab Test for Cardiac Events Still Rare but Increasing (ucsd.edu)

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Want to Know Your Future Breast-Cancer Risk? Just Ask AI (wsj.com)

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AI Tools Differ from Human Tools (tomtunguz.com)

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Apple expects to notify 100M people that they have hypertension in a year (appleinsider.com)

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Apple launching 8 new products on Tuesday, here's what's coming (9to5mac.com)

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Foundation Models for Biosignals: A Survey (techrxiv.org)