UnitedHealthcare drops remote monitoring coverage
Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics.…
Aerobic exercises the best for knee osteoarthritis
For patients with knee osteoarthritis, aerobic activities such as walking, cycling or swimming are likely to be the…
Miriam Merad’s bold bet on the immune system’s power to fight cancer
Miriam Merad’s fascination with macrophages began when she looked into the lungs of a cancer patient she’d just…
How to bring more autoimmune patients into clinical trials
My teenage years were ravaged by severe autoimmune disease. In that era, the burdens of treatment for Crohn’s…
Gastroenterologist reveals the one food a 117-year-old woman ate three times a day
A US-born Spanish woman, Maria Branyas Morer, died in August 2024 at age 117 years and 168 days,…
Apple Watch hypertension app: Experts see benefit despite limitations
Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics.…
‘Heart disease and diabetes contributing heavily’: Chronic illness deaths increased in India, finds Lancet study
India has emerged as one of the countries where the chances of dying from a chronic disease such…
Vaccine critics overlook why newborn hepatitis B shots are routine
It was the late 1980s and the American plan to combat hepatitis B wasn’t working. A vaccine had…
Genes play an active role in shaping the gut bacteria, study finds
New research from the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre has found that genes play an active role in shaping…
Unpublished vaccine study RFK Jr. ally shared with Senate is political theater
On Tuesday, Aaron Siri, personal lawyer and close adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., presented his “smoking gun”…
Study uncovers three-way relationships between gut fungi, genetics and disease risk
A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in the…
Study finds links between human genetic variation, gut mycobiome, and chronic disease risk
Clinicians’ ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease…