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‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out
Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease.
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Why Lettuce Is Always Making People Sick
The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn't an isolated incident. It's part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive havoc.
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Science Corporation’s vision-restoring chip wins EU approval
"The thing that the space needs is a company making $100 million a year of revenue," Science Corp. CEO Max Hodak said.
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6 Best Fitbit Models for Beginners, Athletes, and Kids (2026)
The fitness trackers I’d recommend to beginners, athletes, and kids.
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Dimension Capital’s $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming
The four-year-old firm's latest fund is 60% larger than its second vehicle announced 18 months ago.
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On the run for 20 years, most-wanted fugitive caught hiding as a biotech exec
Ronald Fischer, aka Richard Graydon, was arrested in New York last week.
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Confusion swirls on source of diarrhea outbreak, but it’s still Taylor Farms
Taylor Farms stirred confusion on FDA test and provided a vague recall list.
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The Great Peptide Cash Grab Has Begun
The FDA could decide whether to loosen rules around peptide production this week. Some telehealth players are already seeing dollar signs.
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8 Best Smartwatches (2026): Apple, Google, and Hybrid Watches
These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.
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Abdul El-Sayed Is an Epidemiologist Running for Senate. His State Is a Public Health Disaster
Michigan has been at the epicenter of the wildfire smoke and explosive diarrhea outbreaks. The progressive Democrat talks to WIRED about how he would tackle the forces behind them if he’s elected.
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How Much Water Do You Actually Need? A Science-Backed Hydration Guide
Quick Answer The "8 glasses a day" rule was never a research finding — it originated from a 1945 recommendation that was widely misquoted. How much water you actually need depends on your body weight, activity level, and climate. Most adults are mildly dehydrated for most of the day without knowing it, because thirst only activates after a 1–2% fluid deficit is already established — the same level at which mood, concentration, and physical performance are measurably impaired in controlled trials. This article covers what the science actually says about your personal hydration target, what happens at different levels of dehydration, and when drinking too much becomes a real concern. Use the calculator at the end to find your number. The "8 Glasses a Day" Rule Has No Scientific Basis The origin of the 8×8 rule (eight 8-ounce glasses per day) is commonly traced to a 1945 Food and Nutrition Board recommendation that adults need roughly 2.5 litres of water daily — but the same document immediately noted that most of this quantity is already contained in food. The "drink 8 glasses" takeaway dropped the second half of the sentence entirely. The actual evidence-based reference comes from the Institute of Medicine's 2004 Dietary Reference Intakes report, which set adequate intake at 3.7 litres total water per day for men and 2.7 litres for women — including all sources: beverages, food, and metabolic water from digestion. Since roughly 20% typically comes from food (particularly fruits and vegetables), the drinking target comes out to approximately 2.5–3 litres for men and 1.8–2.2 litres for women at baseline — before accounting for anything that changes it. Institute of Medicine (US) Panel on Dietary Reference Intakes for Electrolytes and Water. Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate. National Academies Press; 2005. How Your Lifestyle Changes What You Need The IOM baseline assumes a sedentary adult in a temperate climate eating a mixed
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Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation
The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.
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Even Mild Sleep Deprivation May Lead to Weight Gain
A recent study suggests that not getting enough sleep increases the risk of weight gain, and thus of conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
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Hackers stole ‘significant’ amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies
Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that thousands of U.S. hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics rely on for billing patients, potentially exposing health data.
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Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’
Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside the youth track boom that’s turning kids and teens into speed machines.
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Choose your Burden
Hey everyone. Just an update on the Salesforce Certification. I am planning on releasing articles...
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the part of this year I don't put in the commit messages
24 hours. That's how long a contract lasted before someone pulled it because I was running Windows,...
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As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease
Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks.
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The 10 Best Electrolyte Powders (We Tested Over 20)
Get those lost minerals back with the help of our top electrolyte powders, tablets, drops, and chews for athletes, partiers, and everyone in between.
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Make the Fake Impossible
Every patient in the public tour of my care platform is a computer science pioneer. Ada Lovelace has a pain score. Alan Turing is due for a check-in. And every one of them has a patient ID no real system could ever issue, an ID that is wrong the way a date in month thirteen is wrong. None of this is an accident. It is the most useful compliance idea I have had this year. A good fake is a liability Here is the problem with realistic demo data. Under HIPAA, nobody can tell a well-made fake from the real thing by looking. A screenshot of a fake patient named John Smith with a plausible ID looks exactly like a screenshot of a real one. So when that image turns up in a deck, or a tweet, or a forwarded email, someone has to prove it is clean. And the only way to prove it is to go back to the database and show the record does not exist. That is an audit. Every plausible fake carries a future audit inside it. So a good fake does not reduce your risk. It just moves it. The better the fake looks, the more it costs to prove it is one. The safety of a fake is not in how real it looks. It is in how obviously fake it is. A plausible fake needs an audit to clear it. An impossible fake clears itself. The fix is to stop making fakes plausible and start making them impossible. A patient named Grace Hopper with an ID that breaks the format on sight cannot be a real record. Anyone can check that from the pixels alone. No lookup, no audit trail, no meeting. Zero pixels The public showcase at clearpathcare.ai contains zero pixels from the production console. Every screen is a React recreation, rebuilt by hand to look like the product without ever touching it. What broke: An early draft of the marketing screens started as console screenshots with seeded test patients: realistic names, realistic IDs. Then I asked one question the images could not answer: prove there is no real record in this frame. I could not. So I deleted every screenshot and rebuilt the screens from scratch. The rebuilt