cardiology

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Your Heart Rate Monitor Is Nonsense, Study Says
The FitBit monitor was 24 heartbeats over or 39 beats under most of the time.
Madison Margolin
10.18.16
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The Design Bias of Heart Failure
The lone artificial heart on the market fit 80 percent of men and only 20 percent of women. But the bias here is deeper than that.
Rose Eveleth
6.15.16
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We Tested the Canadian Health App That Claims to Measure ‘Internal Age’
Turns out that your insides get a lot older after a night of vodka shots.
Rebecca Krauss
4.28.16

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This Digital Stethoscope Lets Doctors Virtually Diagnose Patients In Haiti
How Eko's device is helping nonprofits help patients.
Christine Magee
10.23.15
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Why It Matters That Women's Hearts Age Differently to Men's
Further evidence we need to include women in clinical trials.
Victoria Turk
10.20.15
The Universal Sadness Issue
Flatliner
It’s 1994 and I’m lying on a cold, hard X-Ray table in the cardiac catheterization room of the Methodist Hospital in Houston.
Anthony Perrico, Md
1.2.09