Latest
-
Health
Cuffless blood pressure devices show great promise as alternatives to traditional arm-cuff monitors
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday…
Read More » -
-
-
-
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday…
Read More »
For the past year, when someone needed a decent phone on the cheap, I steered them toward the Moto G (2025), which managed to pack in a fair amount of value in a device that…
Read More »
For the past year, when someone needed a decent phone on the cheap, I steered them toward the Moto G…
Read More »
Going home for the holidays isn’t all turkey, holiday decorations, and political arguments discussions. It also comes with requests for…
Read More »
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Cuffless devices to measure blood pressure, such as smartwatches, rings, patches and fingertip monitors, show great promise as alternatives to traditional arm-cuff monitors, however, they are not yet proven accurate enough to diagnose high blood pressure…
Read More »Get the best of the Health System Tracker delivered to your inbox. Get the best of the Health System Tracker delivered to your inbox. This chart collection examines trends in market competition among commercial health insurers in the large group, small group, and individual markets using enrollment data for fully insured and individual plans using 2013-2023 data from Mark Farah…
Read More »
A new treatment created by scientists at UCL (University College London) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is offering promising results for children and adults with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), a fast-moving and uncommon blood cancer. The approach uses genome-edited immune cells to target the disease in patients who often have very limited treatment options. This first-of-its-kind gene therapy,…
Read More »
For the past year, when someone needed a decent phone on the cheap, I steered them toward the Moto G (2025), which managed to pack in a fair amount of value in a device that didn’t cost more than $200. As a result, the brand new Moto G (2026) arrives with a fairly high bar to clear, especially for a…
Read More »As soon as Thanksgiving ends I am ready to start binging holiday movies. Add a case of illness to that, and all the more so. While I’d love to share my favorite holiday hits with the whole family, movies like “Love Actually,” “The Holiday,” “White Christmas,” and every iteration of the girl meets prince and falls in love just in time…
Read More »MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be difficult. Many children posted farewell messages, while parents reported distraught children discovering they’d been shut out of platforms as the landmark law…
Read More »
Washington: Mexico’s Congress has approved a bill that seeks to impose higher tariffs on imports from India, China, Brazil and several other countries with which the North American nation doesn’t have free trade agreements. The levies, which is set to take effect on January 1, 2026, was passed by Mexico’s Senate on Wednesday after the lower house approved it. The…
Read More »The Pentagon did not conduct a routine investigation into the impact of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s disclosure of sensitive military information in a group chat on Signal earlier this year and whether it damaged national security – in part because Hegseth never authorized it, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. A classification review and damage assessment would typically…
Read More »In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that…
Get the best of the Health System Tracker delivered to your inbox.…
A new treatment created by scientists at UCL (University College London) and…
For the past year, when someone needed a decent phone on the…
As soon as Thanksgiving ends I am ready to start binging holiday…
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first…