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Demis Hassabis shortens AGI timeline from five to two to three years (the-decoder.com)

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AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation (biograph.com)

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Counterintuitive facts about U.S. healthcare (halletecco.substack.com)

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The anatomy of a personal health agent (nature.com)

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In-Vivo CRISPR/Base-Editing "One-Shot" Therapies Targeting PCSK9 (springer.com)

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Lipoprotein(a) in Disaggregated South Asian Groups (sciencedirect.com)

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Healthcare's Alignment Problem: A Preexisting Condition (robertwachter.substack.com)

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JAMA AI (jamanetwork.com)

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Hospitals' next lucrative bet: longevity clinics (statnews.com)

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Lipid and Lipoprotein Tutorial (thomasdayspring.substack.com)

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Lessons from two decades talking to parents who don't vaccinate their children (statnews.com)

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American Medical Association releases governance framework for agentic AI (healthcaredive.com)

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Can Wearables Track Blood Pressure Without the Cuff? I Tested Them (wsj.com)

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World Models for Biomedicine (cell.com)

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Partner in multiple Google adventures (Luis Barroso) (hutchison.org)

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Medical World Models (arxiv.org)

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Learning cardiac dynamics via action-conditioned JEPAs (arxiv.org)

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Neural Dynamics as the Composition of Quantized Units (arxiv.org)

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California wine glut sends premium bottles to Costco, others (latimes.com)

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An open vision-language model for diverse medical applications (nature.com)

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Pushdown automata in statistical machine translation (2014) (acm.org)

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Strange people, but very smart (Bell Labs Culture) (voiceinthemachine.com)

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Membership Fees Are Coming for Your Doctor's Office (slate.com)

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The Defender's Window (gregbrockman.com)

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The beautiful mathematics behind OpenAI's sphere packing result (empirical.health)

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Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug (npr.org)

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A bipartisan health care program worked in North Carolina (statnews.com)

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Google's new watch tracks insulin resistance to flag diabetes risk (latimes.com)

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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (science.org)

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The End of Cheap Data: Rethinking the Scaling Laws (nikolaosvasiloglou.substack.com)

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Enlicitide: A stress test for AI in drug discovery (empirical.health)

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Why Our Memory Slips After Age 50 (erictopol.substack.com)

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Google's newest Pixel Watch monitors blood pressure and insulin resistance (engadget.com)

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Lessons learned from the fate of AstraZeneca's drug pipeline (nih.gov)

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Appetite-suppressing hormone may protect liver from inflammation (medicalxpress.com)

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Vitamin D regulates >5% of the human genome (empirical.health)

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Hack's Law (wikipedia.org)

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Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? (quantamagazine.org)

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Sphere packing, AI, and mathematical beauty (empirical.health)

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The AI takeover of mathematics has begun (theverge.com)

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Apple considers round screens and more designs for Apple Watch revamp (9to5mac.com)

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Big Tech Changed Health Care. The System Must Keep Up (newsweek.com)

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Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability (bloomberg.com)

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Worried about your blood pressure? A $399 Ring measures it without a cuff (inc.com)

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Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029 (eco3min.fr)

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FDA makes Lipfendra poster child of CNPV program for first PCSK9 pill (fiercepharma.com)

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Macrocyclic peptides: a new goldilocks drug class? (empirical.health)

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Fructose and glucose trigger different brain responses (nih.gov)

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Author of Democrats' 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter (nytimes.com)

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Visa to buy anti-fraud startup for $2.4B (paymentsdive.com)

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3D Visualization of E8 Using an H4 Folding Matrix [pdf] (researchgate.net)

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The Magic of 8 and 24 (arxiv.org)

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Samsung announces FDA-cleared smart ring for sleep apnea risk (mobihealthnews.com)

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OpenAI's Second Attempt at Health (healthapiguy.substack.com)

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Inflammation-targeting drug misses mark in heart disease study (statnews.com)

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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated 'slop' (techcrunch.com)

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LLM-style scaling laws hold for sensor data (empirical.health)

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Vitamin D Could Lower Toxic Alzheimer's Proteins, Research Suggests (sciencealert.com)

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Macrocyclic peptides: a new "Goldilocks" drug class? (empirical.health)

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Medicine Is Moving from Calendars to Clocks (erictopol.substack.com)

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The Remarkable Proliferation of Cancer Immunotherapies (erictopol.substack.com)

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Samsung's Galaxy Ring Gets FDA-Cleared Sleep Apnea Detection This Fall (gizmodo.com)

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Sam Altman is ready to decelerate (techcrunch.com)

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A Look Behind the Data: How Whoop Measures Heart Rate (whoop.com)

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Toward a test of medical AI superintelligence (nature.com)

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Best and Worst Habits for Your Liver (nytimes.com)

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Medicine's Great Payment Reshuffling (axios.com)

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A Systems View of Recursive Self Improvement (github.com/exoharness)

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Wearable Ring Tracks Glucose, Ketone and Other Biomarkers in Sweat (ucsd.edu)

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FDA committee votes 8-6 to make BPC-157 legal. What the evidence review said. (empirical.health)

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FDA panel votes to place popular peptide BPC-157 on compounding list (reuters.com)

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Fight for Control over New York's Charter Schools Is Escalating (nysfocus.com)

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FDA staff and peptide enthusiasts set to clash at advisory panel (statnews.com)

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Lung cancer in nonsmokers: A women's health crisis (cbsnews.com)

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Is BPC-157 legal in 2026? What the FDA found (empirical.health)

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Hilo Raises $19M for Blood Pressure Wearables (fitt.co)

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Cancer testing company raises $300M as it goes public (bizjournals.com)

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Dementia symptoms that show up years before diagnosis (washingtonpost.com)

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Why non-invasive glucose monitoring is hard (empirical.health)

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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)