Category: 4. Health

Apple announced one of its most long-awaited new features for the Apple Watch series at its recent iPhone 17 family launch event. It’s Apple Watch blood pressure alerts.

Apple Watch owners will be able to receive an alert when their smartwatch believes it has found signs of high blood pressure, or hypertension.

The best bit is you don’t need the very latest hardware for this to work. Apple’s latest watches are the Apple Watch Series 11, Ultra 3 and SE 3, but models as far back as…

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at AI medical scams, using machine learning to derive drugs from nature, Summit Therapeutics’ miss, and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here.

“I want to see women step into equal power and influence at every level of society, from their homes to their workplaces to our government and economy. But there is no path to that future if women are having to fight unwinnable battles just to receive basic healthcare,” says Melinda French Gates, philanthropist and founder of Pivotal Ventures.

That conviction drives her latest effort, announced at today’s Forbes Power Women’s Summit: a $100…

Every week brings another headline about how divided America has become. From partisan brawls in Congress to culture-war skirmishes online, the story we hear is one of conflict. But data from the newly released Heart of America survey tells a different—and far more hopeful—story.

The third annual…

The brain holds space for a missing limb, even years after it’s gone.

For three women who underwent planned hand amputations, brain scans revealed remarkably durable maps of hand areas, lasting for five years in one case. The results, published August 21 in Nature Neuroscience, counter the long-held idea that the adult brain remakes itself in prominent ways after a change to the body, such as an amputation.

Earlier research, much of it on rodents and nonhuman primates,…

The share of doctors who belong to unions is rising quickly at a time when organized labor is losing ground with other professions. The Conversation U.S. asked Patrick Aguilar, a Washington University in St. Louis pulmonologist and management professor, to explain why the number of physicians joining unions is growing – a trend that appears likely to continue.

How long have there been health care unions?

U.S. nurses first joined labor unions in 1896. Today, about 1 in 5 registered…

Primary care and metabolic health focused company Knownwell announced today that it will be opening its newest clinic in Atlanta, Georgia. This now marks 10 total locations across the United States, indicating the significant traction and explosive growth the company has experienced over the last year.

Knownwell is focused on metabolic health as a whole, with a key eye towards…

The hospital pager beeps. The patient backlog grows. And somewhere between charting, coding and clicking through drop-down menus, the doctor wonders — when did this job become so joyless?

The healthcare burnout crisis isn’t new, but it’s growing a lot worse. Research by the AMA and Stanford Medicine in 2024 found that more than 60% of U.S. doctors said they…

Phenolic compounds, especially flavonoids, are well-known and sought after in the pharmaceutical industry because of their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-carcinogenic properties.

The researchers identified 79 phenolic compounds in three strains of Cannabis grown commercially in South Africa, of which 25 were reported for the…