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Your Apple Watch Can Now Detect Hypertension
Your Apple Watch can now alert you if you’re showing signs of hypertension—a new feature cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Sept. 11. The feature does...
A Battle Is Brewing Over Whole Milk
In December, a scientific committee concluded two years of intensive research on what Americans should be eating by saying that there was not enough research to recommend people drink...
What You Should Know About the ‘Kissing Bug’ Disease
Millions of people around the world are estimated to have Chagas disease, a potentially fatal, parasitic illness that can lie dormant for years after the initial infection.Some 280,000 people...
AI Is Revolutionizing Health Care. But It Can’t Replace Your Doctor
The next time you get a blood test, X-ray, mammogram, or colonoscopy, there’s a good chance an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm will first interpret the results even before your...
Major RFK Jr. Health Report Sows Vaccine Fears; Experts Push Back Hard
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.The nation’s top health officials, regulators, and...
How to Tell If Your Outdoor Air Is Safe
When George Thurston leaves his cottage in the woods of Waccabuc, N.Y., to head for work, a pollution monitor clipped to his belt—called an AirBeam—shows pristine air quality. As...
10 Questions to Ask Your Kid Besides ‘How Was School?’
Every parent has been on the receiving end of a one-word answer. You ask your kid how their day was, and they generously offer that it was “fine,” “good,”...
Trump Cracks Down on Drug Ads
Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on drug companies to be more transparent about the risks associated with their prescription products.In a memorandum signed on Tuesday, the President ordered...
'Trash panda' at it again in Cedar Park, police say
AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The "trash panda" is at it again in Cedar Park, after the police department said it responded to its third raccoon rescue this week. This is...
Two Texas Longhorn volleyball players awarded SEC weekly honors
AUSTIN (KXAN) -- No. 2 Texas Volleyball remains undefeated after facing two opponents this past week, improving to 4-0 on the season. After the team’s most recent win over...
