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Why Paris Is Obsessed with a Niche Spirit Made by Monks (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)

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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)