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Dozens of states sued Meta on Tuesday, accusing the company of putting profit ahead of the safety of its young users. The lawsuit, filed in a California federal court, argues that Meta unlawfully misled the public about the harms its products, like Facebook and Instagram, could impose on children and teens. By implementing a business … Read more
Some Eli Lilly investors appear concerned about clinical trial data that showed patients regained weight after they stopped taking the company’s obesity drug Zepbound. The situation seems rather clear-cut to us: It’s no reason to sell. Eli Lilly shares on Tuesday shook off afternoon losses to close higher by 0.12%, at $584.76 each — a … Read more
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — At 19 months old, Elijah Jack, born with no femur bone in one leg and a short femur in the other, is unable to walk on his own like most toddlers his age. Another 19-month-old, Freya Baudoin, born prematurely at 28 weeks and delayed in her mobility, has finally taken her … Read more
A rapid test importer landed an estimated $2 billion in federal contracts in 2021 and 2022, despite giving regulators incomplete data about its product’s accuracy, Global News has found. A year-long investigation into federal procurement revealed that BTNX, a small rapid test supplier based outside Toronto, deleted dozens of specimens, or samples, from a study … Read more
The test, created by hearing health platform eargym, is based on an academic study and measures how well users’ ears pick up high-pitched sounds. As we get older, we increasingly struggle to hear higher frequencies. To complete the check, users press play on the video below and press pause when they can no longer hear … Read more
By Richard Josephson, MD, as told to Stephanie Watson Back in the middle of the 20th century, there was a concern that people with cardiovascular disease could hurt themselves if they exercised. People with heart failure used to be confined to their bed for long periods of time. Now we know that exercise, when done … Read more
TROY, Ohio — Each morning when she wakes up, Juanita Mengel removes the silicone liner of her prosthetic leg out from under a heated blanket so that the metal parts of the artificial limb don’t feel as cold on her skin when she straps the pieces together. The 67-year-old Amanda, Ohio, resident then does the … Read more
Until fairly recently, the idea of listening to your gut was mostly metaphorical. The heart, lungs and liver are important to keep in good shape. But the stomach, intestines and colon? Surely they just keep chugging along, processing whatever you put into them, occasionally objecting, but basically doing their job. Well, not quite. Over the … Read more
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Typical heart rate monitoring in wearable tech, like smart watches or wireless earbuds, relies at least partially on photoplethysmography (PPG), which uses light pulses to measure blood activity. It works generally well, but it has its limitations. Google scientists wrote in a new research blog spotted by 9to5Google yesterday that they had tried a different … Read more
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Yves Herman | Reuters Google on Wednesday announced MedLM, a suite of new health-care-specific artificial intelligence models designed to help clinicians and researchers carry out complex studies, summarize doctor-patient interactions and … Read more
