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 […]
California, home of the freeway and the car-based lifestyle, has long struggled with air pollution—and been a pioneer in cleaning up the air, for example in vehicle emission standards. But in recent years, a new threat to air quality has emerged as summer and fall bring some of the worst wildfires in state history, spreading […]
Daily updates of COVID case numbers have been part of our pandemic lives. These numbers are reported, analyzed and widely shared. They’re conversation starters, and with good reason. Until recently, daily numbers had direct consequences. Officials used them to make decisions that significantly impacted our lives. No wonder many of us were glued to the […]
The dangerous rise of defensive medicine: How doctors give us invasive and risky tests we don’t need – because they are so terrified of being sued for negligence Doctors not only fear missing something vital for the sake of the patient but also fear being sued amid a tide of clinical negligence claims against NHS […]
As the world’s attention turns to the climate summit in Glasgow, where governments are negotiating the future of international action on climate change, many will be feeling the acute stress and dread that comes with living in a world where it seems environmental catastrophe is around every corner. Beyond the well-acknowledged threats of climate change […]
It remains a central challenge in psychiatry to reliably judge whether a patient will respond to treatment. In a new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany show that moment-to-moment fluctuations in brain activity can reliably predict whether patients […]
We all know Chef Ramsay with his hellish attitude in the kitchen but it’s undeniable that his cooking skills are a blessing from heaven. It will not be an exaggeration to say that he has built quite an empire ever since he started appearing on Hell’s Kitchen. After the huge success of the show, Ramsay was […]
To make running seem easier, try paying attention to anything other than your body. That’s according to a fascinating new study of the ways in which how we focus as we move can impact how we feel as we move. The study was small and involved novice female runners, but the findings suggest that the […]
The best air purifiers on the market can truly transform the quality of the air you breathe at home. These handy appliances have a plethora of benefits, from reducing exposure to airborne pollutants to eradicating bad smells. “The best way to improve indoor air quality is to reduce pollutants at their source and to ventilate […]
The 2014–2016 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa was the worst outbreak of the disease since its discovery in the 1970s. Centered in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the epidemic claimed over 11 300 lives—more than all the previous Ebola outbreaks combined. Subsequent outbreaks as recently as 2021 highlight the fact that the threat is […]
