Daily cases: 67,159 (up by 23,142 from last week) Hospitalisations: 11,639 (up by 827 from last week) Deaths: 123 (up by 49 from last week) The original source is here (scroll down a bit). The fact that there has been… Read More ›
Health
Scan your body… soon
Advanced sensors embedded in the handle are able to scan torso, arms, and legs to give a precise picture of body composition and overall fitness. Body Scan uses multi-frequency Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) to measure body composition ultra-precisely by distinguishing… Read More ›
The Movano Ring
Your ring measures heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep, respiration, temperature, blood oxygen, steps and calories. It can tell you why you slept the way you did, and that your resting heart rate’s higher after a few glasses of wine…. Read More ›
Unnecessary Smartwatch Alerts
Getting an alert about a heart rhythm, then, doesn’t help the typical Apple Watch user’s overall health, says study author Josh Pevnick, co-director in the division of informatics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “It can cause anxiety for… Read More ›
Detection of Covid 19 using a wearable device
We developed an algorithm to identify COVID-19 onset using data collected by a commercially available wearable device. The resultant algorithm had high sensitivity (82%), with moderate specificity (63%). In developing this algorithm, we placed greater emphasis on sensitivity than on… Read More ›
Long term Covid effects
The study tapped into a massive database of health records at the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has data from patients at 1,255 health care facilities across the US. The authors, led by clinical epidemiologists Yan Xie and Ziyad Al-Aly,… Read More ›
Whack-a-Mole
Or rather, most doctors dismissed him as a madman. At his own clinic, the students adopted the new handwashing regime. Maternal fatality rates dropped dramatically. Semmelweis presented this evidence to the world. Again, his findings were rejected. When his term… Read More ›
Smartwatch health tracking will be more important than fitness
According to Mark Gurman’s “Power On” newsletter, the Apple Watch Series 8 is unlikely to have a body temperature sensor, as a report earlier this month stated. As per the Australian nursing student, the Apple Watch’s heart rate notifications can… Read More ›
At-home COVID testing must be better than lateral flows
These tests are generally more sensitive than rapid antigen tests, and they’re less likely to return a false negative result. But as any molecular biologist can tell you, they require more focus and concentration to conduct. You also need some… Read More ›
Why Do We Fall In Love?
The question seems simple, but it’s not trivial. A lot of time, energy, and heartache goes into finding solid relationships. “In a lot of senses, who you choose as a partner is the most important decision you’ll ever make,” Conroy-Beam… Read More ›
