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user: brandonb
created: 2011-01-17
karma: 9180

Data for good.

Co-Founder at Empirical Health (https://empirical.health). Don't die of heart disease.

Before: Co-Founder @ Cardiogram (ML for heart health)

  CTO at Sift Science (YC S11, machine learning to fight fraud)

  Data Science @ UCSF Cardiology

  HealthCare.gov rescue team

  Google (Android speech recognition, search ads ML)
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submissions:

Samsung's Galaxy Ring Gets FDA-Cleared Sleep Apnea Detection This Fall
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Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
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A Look Behind the Data: How Whoop Measures Heart Rate
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Toward a test of medical AI superintelligence
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Best and Worst Habits for Your Liver
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Medicine's Great Payment Reshuffling
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A Systems View of Recursive Self Improvement
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Wearable Ring Tracks Glucose, Ketone and Other Biomarkers in Sweat
5 points | 1 comments
FDA committee votes 8-6 to make BPC-157 legal. What the evidence review said.
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FDA panel votes to place popular peptide BPC-157 on compounding list
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Fight for Control over New York's Charter Schools Is Escalating
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FDA staff and peptide enthusiasts set to clash at advisory panel
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Lung cancer in nonsmokers: A women's health crisis
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Is BPC-157 legal in 2026? What the FDA found
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Hilo Raises $19M for Blood Pressure Wearables
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Cancer testing company raises $300M as it goes public
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Dementia symptoms that show up years before diagnosis
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Why non-invasive glucose monitoring is hard
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Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: AHA Scientific Statement
49 points | 26 comments
Capping the price of healthcare is a mistake
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Wearable foundation models: a brief history
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Graham's death from aortic dissection raises questions about prevention
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