Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known. Its benefits in prevention outstrip any known drugs: 50% reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease, 50% reduction in the risk of many cancers, positive effects on mental health, pulmonary health, GI…

Well deserved! Congrats Eric.

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#TIME100HEALTH

The flying future has arrived. Checking out the Helix from @PivotalAero1

Bonus: Running into former astronaut Ed Lu, one of Pivotal’s technical advisors.

Learn more & get yours at pivotal.aero

“We see a future where general-purpose #robots are as ubiquitous as cars, helping people to do work that needs doing. - Geordie Rose of Sanctuary AI

Here’s a recap of current robots & what they can do.

via Freethink

freethink.com/robots-ai/huma…

The residency research arms race: Medical students feel the need to publish more research to differentiate themselves from their peers on residency applications.

Research has become the 2nd most important aspect of residency applications. #MedEd

statnews.com/2024/04/29/res…

I'm curious as to why there's so many cost-effectiveness studies into digital health, and apparently so few into the rest of health care spending

Healthcare is hard... Walmart will close all of 51 of its health care centers across 5 states & end virtual care services,

5yrs since the launch of Walmart Health centers, they determined “there is not a sustainable business model for us to continue.”

nbcnews.com/business/busin…

Citing rising #breastcancer rates in young women, an expert panel on Tuesday recommended starting regular mammography screening at age 40, reversing longstanding and controversial guidance that most women wait until 50.

nbcnews.com/health/womens-…

In JAMA…

Excited to unveil the conversation I had with Demis Hassabis at TED2024. How AI is transforming science, and much more. go.ted.com/rdmdg

An #AI trained on 21,429 disorder-free head CT scans mastered the appearance of the normal, allowing it to accurately detect a wide range of abnormalities. #radiology

Restoring sight with #optigenetics :

An incredible convergence of biology/data/technology to enable vision 👀

wapo.st/4aRKrT8

The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed at NYU Langone Health #xenotransplantation

cnn.com/2024/04/24/hea…

Home as a Health Care Hub: The FDA announced the launch of a new initiative that focuses on using augmented reality and virtual reality to improve health equity by reimagining the home environment as part of a healthcare system. 

mobihealthnews.com/news/fda-launc…

Exploring the future of healthcare:

Join me tomorrow 4-6pm in Menlo Park, along with Stanford Medicine’s Lee Sanders, MD, MPH, Naoko Okumoto, Medeloop’s Dr Rene Caissie, David Ewing Duncan, and Maria Soloveychik of SyntheX

Register here eventbrite.com/e/the-future-o…

Much as #ChatGPT generates poetry, a new #AI system devises blueprints for #CRISPR that can edit your DNA.

“I dream of a world where we have CRISPR on demand within weeks...” Fyodor Urnov, a gene editing pioneer at UC Berkeley

nytimes.com/2024/04/22/tec…

Two important firsts in genome editing
1. Fetal non-human primate base editing delivers to multiple organs
statnews.com/2024/04/22/cri… by Megan Molteni STAT William Peranteau Kiran Musunuru
2. #AI -generated gene editors success in human cells
nytimes.com/2024/04/22/tec… Cade Metz…

The 2024 election a singular event in the #climate crisis, and for human health.

The Lancet estimated that in the year 2019 alone Trump’s climate related policies led to 22,000 excess deaths from heart disease, asthma and lung cancer, among other causes.

Stephen Markley in…

Proud to be an associate editor for the new Journal of Medical Extended Reality, Journal of Medical Extended Reality - the leading open-access peer-reviewed journal exploring the multifaceted role of #XR in healthcare.

home.liebertpub.com/publications/j…