health

The article discusses the severe health risks of wildfire smoke and provides guidance on using N95 masks, air purifiers, and monitoring air quality via Airnow.gov to stay safe.

HealthyNotch is a product aimed at promoting health in the workplace, emphasizing that work should not compromise personal health.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the eastern US, causing hazardous air quality and prompting health warnings as climate change intensifies wildfire seasons.

Node Health provides a private, centralized platform for managing all your lab results securely.

Introduces OmniFood-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating vision-language models on nutrient reasoning and personalized health advice. Experiments show VLMs struggle with mass estimation and safety-critical recommendations.

Fidji Simo, OpenAI's AGI chief, is stepping down from her full-time role due to a chronic neuroimmune condition and will transition to a part-time advisory position, following a series of executive reshuffles at the company.

Sam Altman expresses sadness over Fidji Simo's departure from OpenAI due to a chronic illness exacerbation, wishing her a speedy recovery.

An OpenAI employee announces leaving full-time role to become part-time advisor due to a chronic illness, emphasizing the importance of health and AI's potential to solve real-world problems like disease.

This paper extends PubHealthBench into a retrieval-augmented setting and evaluates retrieval and generation choices for public health QA, showing hybrid retrieval improves accuracy and that smaller models with retrieval can match larger ones.

Juicy is a Mac app that provides battery alerts, health insights, and charge limit management.

This article explains hazard ratios in health studies, why they cannot be directly converted to life expectancy changes without considering risk distribution over time, and clarifies the difference between hazard ratios and relative risks.

An article exploring the prevalence and impact of smell disorders like anosmia, especially after Covid-19, and the growing evidence linking smell to brain health.

The article argues that benchmarking serves as a form of data activation by converting domain data into measurable metrics, enabling models to be evaluated and improved, particularly in complex domains like health where such metrics are lacking.

A large sibling-matched study found no link between prenatal acetaminophen (Tylenol) use and autism or ADHD, contradicting claims by Trump and RFK Jr.

A subscriber-only roundtable discussion hosted by MIT Technology Review explores the frontier of longevity research, focusing on cellular reprogramming as a potential treatment to reverse aging.

A new study from the International Council on Clean Transportation finds that transitioning the US to 100% zero-emission vehicles by 2040 could prevent over 100,000 premature deaths by reducing harmful air pollutants.

This article introduces AscendAPI, an API platform that provides structured, expert-verified exercise data for health and fitness apps, including images and video resources. It notes that the API's v2 version is more powerful and offers a generous free tier.

A Stanford Medicine study finds that permanent standard time is healthier for most Americans than the current biannual time shifts or permanent daylight saving time, based on circadian rhythm analysis.

A landmark study finds that screen time for babies and toddlers under two can cause long-term developmental harm, leading researchers to call for revised official guidance and a baby screen-time risk assessment.

Advocacy for dark sky lighting to reduce light pollution, improve safety, health, and protect wildlife.