Articles by brandonb
63

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

1

Vagus Atlas Explorer (drsiyarb.github.io)

2

An Autism Challenge (cremieux.xyz)

2

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

3

Cholesterol Guidelines Get a Welcome Overhaul (bloomberg.com)

1

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

1

AppleOS 27 (cupertinolens.com)

4

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

7

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

1

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

2

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

2

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

3

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

178

WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding (cupertinolens.com)

1

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

1

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

45

Transformers are inherently succinct (openreview.net)

3

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

2

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

2

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

2

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

1

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

5

Eggs are now officially healthy (empirical.health)

2

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

1

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

1

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

1

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

9

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

10

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

2

New Oura Ring 5 has smaller design and hypertension detection (9to5mac.com)

450

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM (latimes.com)

2

The Long, Bitter Fight at the Park Slope Food Co-Op (nytimes.com)

3

Blood pressure tech floods the market after FDA relaxes wearables oversight (statnews.com)

14

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

5

Blood test added to colorectal cancer screening options by cancer group (nbcnews.com)

3

Scientists are raising new questions about vitamin B12 and cancer (sciencedaily.com)

3

The effect of sleep on blood biomarkers (empirical.health)

2

Additive ban could change New York's pizza and bagels, some say for the better (6abc.com)

1

Retatrutide's phase 3 results: 30% weight loss in 2 years (empirical.health)

1

One-and-Done Heart Disease Prevention? Scientists Show It May Be Possible (nytimes.com)

2

Drug overdose deaths drop sharply in the U.S. even as new street drugs emerge (npr.org)

3

Nicotine Patches to Treat Long Covid (mcgill.ca)

3

Takeaways from Democrats' autopsy of Harris's 2024 loss (nytimes.com)

1

Eli Lilly's New Weight-Loss Treatment Shows Promising Results (wsj.com)

3

Could Universal GLP-1 Drugs End the Obesity Epidemic? (cremieux.xyz)

2

Pivoting Out of Healthcare (saffron.health)

4

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

1

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

7

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

45

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

1

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

1

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

1

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

3

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

2

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

3

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

3

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

2

Every statin ranked by effect size (empirical.health)

1

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

1

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

2

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

1

The Fick equation and your heart (empirical.health)

26

Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes (washingtonpost.com)

4

Cigna to quit health insurance exchanges (modernhealthcare.com)

2

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

3

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

1

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

1

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

1

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

2

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

10

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

3

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

2

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

3

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

2

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

3

Unmasking the Creator of Bitcoin (nytimes.com)

2

How Healthy Are Oats? (nytimes.com)

1

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

1

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

2

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

1

Trial by Fire: Crisis Engineering (eatingpolicy.com)

2

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

2

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

3

How the Apple Watch defined modern health tech (theverge.com)

2

ARPA-H launches $144M microplastics program (hhs.gov)

18

Three main saturated fats raise your cholesterol (empirical.health)

3

Samsung's Blood Pressure Monitoring Feature Now Available (samsung.com)

2

American Heart Association dietary guidance counter to some MAHA guidelines (theguardian.com)

1

Whoop, a wearable device maker, raises $575M (nytimes.com)

5

Powerful cholesterol drug cuts heart attack risk by 31% (sciencedaily.com)

2

Oura Ring Helps Uncover Multiple Cases of Lymphoma (cnet.com)

1

Apple Pivots Its AI Strategy to App Store, Search-Like Platform Approach (bloomberg.com)

3

Demystifying Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Tool-Using Agents (arxiv.org)

2

Rising health costs push some middle-aged adults to skip the doc until Medicare (usatoday.com)

2

Health: Science Outran the System (juliahawkins.substack.com)

2

OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO) (om.co)

1

Improving breast cancer screening workflows with machine learning (research.google)

2

Insulin resistance prediction from wearables and routine blood biomarkers (nature.com)

2

BioNTech founders to depart, form new mRNA-focused company (statnews.com)

3

Changes to cardiovascular guidelines suggest taking statins as young as 30 (statnews.com)