Oura is lobbying for relaxed wearables regulation. It has a point, but is regulation even the problem here?
ThisPolitico story is a fascinating deep dive into Oura cozying up to the government. What caught my eye is a tidbit that Oura is lobbying lawmakers for a “digital health screener” device classification process that would sidestep the more intensive FDA clearance process for medical devices.
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But here’s Dave Wiskus, founder of the Nebula streaming service, on how AG1 did not pass muster as a sponsor. If you’re curious to learn more, may I point you to this week’sOptimizer?
Athletic Greens is ‘clinically backed.’ What does that even mean?
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurmanreports that Apple is “scaling back” plans for the coach and will instead roll out some of what it had been working on into the Heath app over time.Maybe not the worst idea.
The search for the contents of my mystery “GLP-3” vial leads further into the wellness wild west.
The withdrawal from the World Health Organization makes good on an executive order Trump issued on his first day in office. PerTheNew York Times:
The up-in-the-air status of the flu vaccine is just one of countless global health matters that are left hanging in the balance by the United States’ withdrawal. Global health experts are deeply concerned that if a novel bug similar to the coronavirus emerges, a lack of international coordination will lead to death and disaster.
TheWashington Post has anexcellent piece (subscription required) debunking thisviral theory. If the levels of EMF radiation measured at the 49ers’ practice facility weakened ligaments, we’d all have torn ACLs. When cornered, Peter Cowan, the self-proclaimed expert who popularized thistheory, admitted he had no hard evidence and moved the goalposts:
In an interview, Cowan acknowledged he hadn’t seen any research specifically on EMF damage to muscles and tendons; he drew connections from other studies and his own observations as a clinician, he said. He also didn’t know the 49ers started practicing in Santa Clara so long ago. If he had, he would have broadened his research to track the rising number of cell towers in the area. He said he remains “confident” the substation contributed to the injuries.
Planet-heating carbon and methane pollution had actually fallen by around 20 percent over the past decade, butticked back up again in 2025 as the Trump administration slashed environmental regulations.
The US Environmental Protection Agency also announced this week that it plans tostop calculating the economic benefits of improved health from cleaning up air pollution.
New US dietary guidelines promote more protein and beef tallow, potentially moving Americans further away from a low-carbon diet.
Unlike the consumer-facingChatGPT Health announced Wednesday, thenew OpenAI for Healthcare products launching today are designed do things like create reusable templates for discharge summaries and patient instructions, or analyze medical evidence to apply to specific patients.
ChatGPT for Healthcare is already being used by healthcare organizations like Boston Children’s Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
It took six years, FDA clearance, and some rabbits, but this CES health wearable didn’t end up as vaporware.
This is Mor, a wearable for men suffering from premature ejaculation. It zaps the perineum — or the taint — to help you delay orgasm or intensify it. I’ve been covering this device for six years, soenjoy this video, and stay tuned for my full hands-on. (Update: The hands-on is now availableright here.)
The Trump administration — andantivax crusader RFK Jr. — arecutting down the number of childhood immunizations federal agencies recommend.
”This is just one more example of the decisions coming out of HHS that are sowing confusion,” Daniel Jernigan, former director of the CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases,tellsStat News.
Just likelast year, Apple hasannounced new fitness content that will start rolling out next week (if you want to try another app,we’ve got suggestions).
There are new multi-week Strength, HIIT, or Yoga Fitness Comeback workouts, new music playlists, a Strava challengefor Apple Watch owners, and newTime to Walkaudio episodes with Penn Badgley, Mel B, and Michelle Monaghan.
It’s far too easy to buy so-called GLP-3s through gray-market websites.
In the middle ofthreatening funding for hospitals that provide gender-related care to minors andtrying to tack his name onto the Kennedy Center, the president alsosigned another executive order.
This one directs the Attorney General to take steps to move marijuana from Schedule I classification under federal law, along with heroin, to Schedule III, which includes ketamine and anabolic steroids. It’s something Bidenhad said he would pursue.
AfterSimon Fondrie-Teitler called out theDekoda health tracker’s incorrect use of the term end-to-end encryption because Kohler does have access to the data it collects, the company has updated thetoilet cam’s product pages to now say that user data is “encrypted in transit and at rest.”
We’re listening to testimony from one of the responding officers who arrested Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonalds. The officer testified that Mangione’s medical face mask made him stand out as the person who was reported as being suspicious.
“We don’t wear masks” in the city, officer Joseph Detwiler told the court. “We have antibodies.” This elicited an audible reaction from the audience.
There are known benefits to tracking your glucose levels, but it can also be a slippery slope into disordered eating.
Food logging is tedious enough without AI making stuff up.
The wearable company offers paid blood tests to US users through itsAdvanced Labs feature, which launched in September. But now users worldwide can upload their blood results into the app for free, and see biomarkers alongside their daily data. Whoop-organized tests will roll out internationally “in the coming months.”
