Livongo vet Dr. Kimon Angelides is now looking to the women’s health space with her new company, FemTec Health, which is focused on using data for personalized care across a patient’s life cycle. The Texas-based startup is launching with more than $38 million in investor dollars. The platform uses the BiomeAI engine to customize a patient’s […]
As part of a Halloween-inspired campaign, the Australian Federal Police has released a series of ill-advised memes attempting to highlight the “lesser-known impacts” of illicit drug use. The campaign demonstrates a skewed and overly simplistic understanding of drug problems. It’s superficial, inaccurate and demonizes people who use drugs. People who use drugs are depicted as […]
(HealthDay)—Managing your diabetes can be tough, but your eyes might thank you for it. Diabetic retinopathy is a diabetes complication that damages the retina’s blood vessels, often resulting in vision loss and blindness. The condition occurs in more than half of people with diabetes. It affects nearly 8 million Americans and that number is expected […]
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The CDC issued an urgent health advisory for those currently pregnant, planning a pregnancy or breastfeeding on Sept. 29, 2021. The statement reiterated the importance of vaccination in preventing severe illness and death resulting from COVID-19. It also highlighted the wide gap in vaccination rates with pregnant people who are less than half as likely […]
The ability of COVID-19 to infiltrate and potentially change the function of a variety of different cells in the body, including the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas, is the subject of a special session at this year’s Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). The presentation will be given […]
There are certain beauty products that come to define a decade. The '00s, of course, were marked by butterfly clips and frosty glosses. The '10s saw the rise of highlighter and contour powders. And while I'm well-aware we've only scratched the surface of the '20s, in my humble opinion, blowout brushes are certainly in the […]
Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King’s famous friendship is a genuine sisterhood (the secret to their 45-year bond, they say, is unconditional love) and they’ve supported each other through high-profile careers, motherhood, and romance. In December, Winfrey showed King’s daughter Kirby Bumpus that same love, offering her Santa Barbara, California, home as a wedding venue, and […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed critical knowledge gaps and assumptions concerning how respiratory viruses spread between hosts. Traditionally thought to be spread mainly through large respiratory droplets produced by the coughs and sneezes of sick individuals, a growing body of evidence indicates that many respiratory pathogens – including SARS-CoV-2– spread through virus-laden microscopic respiratory aerosols. […]
If anyone’s got those perfect and gorgeous toned arms, legs, and fantastic abs, it’d be Hailee Steinfeld. She always steals the crowd’s attention with her show-stopper dress and how she slayed it by walking and flaunting her healthy and fit body. What could be her secret in achieving a leaner body? Let’s read and find […]
