Breastfeeding is the single most evidence-backed nutritional intervention for infant health, yet the technology most women use to sustain it has barely evolved from the loud, cumbersome, tethered machines of…
Pregnant women have been told to “count the contractions” for generations, but timing contractions with a stopwatch during active labor is like measuring a hurricane with a rain gauge. A…
A ring that already tracked sleep, heart rate, and body temperature added cycle prediction, pregnancy insights, and perimenopause features, turning a general health wearable into something more specific: a continuous…
In 2018, the FDA did something it had never done before: it cleared a smartphone app as a method of contraception. The decision was controversial, the science behind it was…
The biological window for conception is remarkably narrow, roughly six days per month, and most women cannot reliably identify when it opens. A urinary hormone test that detects both estrogen…
🧬 Aging Reframed as Coordination Failure: Scientists at the World Longevity Congress are shifting from single-target anti-aging interventions toward restoring coordination across the body's biological systems. ❤️ Long COVID and the Heart: A 1.2-million-person Swedish study confirms long COVID significantly raises cardiovascular disease risk, including in younger non-hospitalized adults, with women facing more than double the risk. 🤖 AI Hits a Clinical Milestone: With 173 AI-discovered drugs now in clinical trials and Insilico's AI-designed pulmonary fibrosis drug showing Phase IIa efficacy, generative AI in medicine has arrived at clinical scale. 🦠 Fasting for Gut Health: Just five days per month of low-calorie plant-based eating reduced gut inflammation and achieved clinical response in nearly 70% of Crohn's disease patients in a Nature Medicine randomized trial. 😴 Circadian Health and Cancer: New ACS-funded research at Fred Hutch will investigate whether night-shift-driven solar jet lag is a driver of liver cancer, reinforcing circadian alignment as a cancer prevention frontier.
A clinical study of 237 women found that a wearable bracelet tracking five physiological signals could detect the fertile window with 90% accuracy. That bracelet became a commercial product, and…
Fever is the oldest vital sign humans have measured, yet most households still rely on technology that has barely changed in a century. A connected thermometer asks whether temperature data,…
Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. It is colorless, odorless, and present in roughly one in fifteen American homes at levels the EPA…
The air outside your window and the air inside your home tell different stories about your health. Most monitors can only read one of them. In 2021, the World Health…
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