Articles by brandonb
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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)

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Visual representations in the human brain are aligned with LLMs (nature.com)

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Interview with US Digital Service's First Administrator (usdigitalserviceorigins.org)

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How to calculate your heart attack risk with <$200 of blood tests (empirical.health)

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Coalition for Metabolic Health Launches with $50M (coalitionformetabolichealth.org)

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Survey of Deep Learning and Foundation Models for Time Series Forecasting (arxiv.org)

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Nutrition Myths Experts Wish Would Die (nytimes.com)

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Algorithmic consultant: a new role for clinical AI (nature.com)

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Guide to Contrastive Learning: Techniques, Models, and Applications (medium.com/myscale)

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Potassium-rich diet may cut risk of heart failure by 24% (theguardian.com)

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Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs? (nytimes.com)

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AI Doctors Won't Work for Free (8vc.com)

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First PCSK9 Inhibitor Approved for Blanket Prevention of Heart Disease (medpagetoday.com)

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What Happens When Blood Pressure Drops Below 120 (scitechdaily.com)

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Health insurance prices likely to rise next year (pbs.org)

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Elon Musk's XAI Sues Apple over Claims It Favors OpenAI (nytimes.com)

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Inflammation predicts 25% higher mortality (thelancet.com)

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34% of ancient mummies showed atherosclerosis in a CT scan (nih.gov)

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Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables (arxiv.org)

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At-home ECGs will detect early heart issues and save thousands, say doctors (theguardian.com)

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Study: Lp(a) testing would save both lives and dollars (sciencedirect.com)

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Large neck size predicts the most common abnormal heart rhythm (msn.com)

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Adaptive deep SVM for detecting early heart disease among cardiac patients (nature.com)

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Even mild Covid may leave blood vessels five years older (sciencedaily.com)

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Simple blood cholesterol test may better predict coronary artery disease risk (medicalnewstoday.com)

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UnitedHealthcare rolling out new benefit aimed at early cancer detection (fiercehealthcare.com)

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Deep learning outperforms cardiologists in identifying structural heart disease (physicsworld.com)

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OpenEvidence Scores 100 on US Medical Licensing Exam (openevidence.com)

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A personal health large language model for sleep and fitness coaching (nature.com)

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DeepHeart: Semi-Supervised Sequence Learning for Cardiovascular Risk Prediction [pdf] (aaai.org)

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Whoop pushes back on FDA over blood pressure feature (mobihealthnews.com)

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Distillation Scaling Laws (arxiv.org)

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How Should We Evaluate Healthcare AI? (outofpocket.health)

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New blood pressure guidelines recommend earlier treatment and skipping alcohol (cnn.com)

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Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches (theverge.com)

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Smartwatches aren't confused about stress–but headlines and studies are (wareable.substack.com)

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Samsung's 'Preventative Care' on the Galaxy Watch 8 (androidcentral.com)

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Am I Healthy? How to design a comprehensive health score (empirical.health)

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Study Finds Smartwatches Aren't That Good at Measuring Stress (gizmodo.com)

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Consequences and dangers of miscategorizing aging as a disease (frontiersin.org)

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New blood tests offer earlier and more accurate heart disease detection (thebrighterside.news)

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When does the body start aging? The answer may surprise you (usatoday.com)

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Poor sleep linked to 172 diseases, including dementia, Parkinson's, diabetes (medicalnewstoday.com)

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Lp(a) is another risk to your heart that's getting new attention (washingtonpost.com)

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Interview with ChatGPT Agent Creators (sequoiacap.com)

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Most Americans' hearts are older than their chronological age, new tool says (statnews.com)

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Deep Dive into Yann LeCun's JEPA (rohitbandaru.github.io)