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Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit
The $100 Fitbit Air is available for preorder today.
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Google’s taking a big swing at AI health with the Fitbit Air
It's a Whoop dupe. That was my first thought when I saw the new $99 Google Fitbit Air. You can hardly blame me. The band is screenless with a metallic fabric clasp. My eyes flickered between the Fitbit Air and my wrist, where I'm wearing a Whoop MG...
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Iran's president says he met Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei amid persistent health rumours
As speculation grows over the possibility of an agreement between Iran and the US, Pezeshkian said he had met with the new Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who is still to appear in public following his appointment.
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Hantavirus: Cruise company says no symptomatic guests on ship
The company that operates the cruise ship struck by the hantavirus said that no passengers showing symptoms have remained on board. It also said 30 guests had disembarked on Saint Helena on April 24. DW has more.
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New “Trojan horse” obesity drug supercharges weight loss in early tests
Researchers have created a next-generation obesity drug that works like a “Trojan horse,” using GLP-1/GIP signals to slip a powerful metabolic enhancer directly into target cells. In mice, it outperformed existing treatments—curbing appetite...
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Hantavirus: Cruise company says no sympomatic guests on ship
The company that operates the cruise ship struck by the hantavirus said that no passengers showing symptoms have remained on board. It also said 30 guests had disembarked on Saint Helena on April 24. DW has more.
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Germany's golden years are over, Reinhold Würth warns
Reinhold Würth, who has made the Würth Group the global market leader in the trade of assembly and fastening materials for trade and industry, sees an opportunity above all in the fields of electronics, IT and artificial intelligence.
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Psychiatrists say RFK Jr.'s take on SSRIs is an 'oversimplification' of the problem
The American Psychiatric Association says too few patients can access comprehensive mental health care in the United States. It welcomes new investments in improving access to evidence-based care.
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Scientists find a way to stop dangerous belly fat as we age
Aging doesn’t just add fat—it redistributes it in risky ways, pushing more into the abdomen where it can harm health. Scientists found that testosterone plays a key role in this shift. In older women recovering from hip fractures, a testosterone gel...
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About 40 passengers previously left ship hit by Hantavirus at island of St. Helena
About 40 passengers on a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak previously disembarked on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena after the first passenger died, Dutch officials said Thursday.
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Hantavirus on the rise in Argentina, where MV Hondius cruise ship set sail
Experts say that a surge of hantavirus cases in Argentina, where the MV Hondius cruise ship set sail, is in part due to climate change. The World Health Organization ranks the South American country as having the highest incidence of the...
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PSG sweep aside Bayern to reach second straight Champions League final
Despite Bayern Munich managing to draw at home, PSG, who travelled to Munich with a one-goal lead, knocked out the German champions and secured their place in the Champions League final for the second year running. “We’ve shown what sort of team we...
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Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility...
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Scientists reverse diabetes in mice with lab-grown insulin cells
Scientists in Sweden have taken a major step toward a potential cure for type 1 diabetes by developing a more reliable way to create insulin-producing cells from human stem cells. These lab-grown cells not only respond strongly to glucose but were...
Science Daily
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Keir Starmer's leadership set to be tested as polls open in UK local elections
Britons head to the polls Thursday in local elections where millions of voters could turn to Nigel Farage's far-right Reform UK party or the left-wing Green Party. These elections mark a major first test for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose...
France 24
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Three evacuated from hantavirus-hit ship as Spain says vessel can dock
British guide Martin Anstee among those evacuated from MV Hondius, which is now heading for Canary IslandsExplainer: What is hantavirus?Three people with suspected hantavirus have been medically evacuated from a cruise ship.They include a British...
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How India's pharmaceutical pipeline is fuelling West Africa's opioid crisis
Sierra Leone, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria and several more countries in West Africa are in the midst of an overlooked opioid crisis that's crippling the population and devastating families. The drugs that are fuelling this crisis aren't made in makeshift...
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3 patients are being evacuated to Europe from ship with hantavirus outbreak
Three patients with suspected hantavirus infections were being evacuated from a cruise ship to the Netherlands on Wednesday, the U.N. health agency said, as the vessel at the center of a deadly outbreak remained off Cape Verde with nearly 150 people...
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BioNTech faces its biggest post pandemic crisis
BioNTech, once celebrated for its COVID-19 vaccines, is grappling with falling demand, restructuring and the departure of its founders. Can its ambitious cancer trials turn it from a one-hit wonder into a biotech giant?
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Infants are bleeding out after parents decline vitamin K shots given at birth
Hospitals report more parents are declining vitamin K shots for their newborns.
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