Health technology
How much can you trust a smart scale’s body-fat number?
Weight, body-fat estimates and changes over time are different tests of a smart scale. Validation studies show why a repeatable number can still be wrong.
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News & analysis · Page 9
The developments shaping healthcare, with original sources and useful context.
Home & community care
The nurses behind an app for cancer care at home
A Hong Kong trial found better-maintained quality of life with SUPPORT+. Its reporting system, caregiver involvement and nurse response explain what was actually tested.
Policy & systems
Who supports a brain implant after its trial ends?
An implant can outlast the research that placed it. Australian consensus recommendations and existing guidance show why maintenance, funding and clinical handover need separate answers.
Health technology
Could menstrual fluid help diagnose endometriosis?
A small study found gene-activity signals in menstrual fluid. The useful question is how a promising biological signature becomes a reliable test for people with symptoms.
Home & community care
What the digital-landline switch means for care alarms
A working phone call does not prove a care alarm will connect. England’s new housing guidance explains the equipment, power and shared responsibilities behind the transition.
Health technology
What can polygenic embryo screening actually predict?
Genetic risk scores rank probabilities, not a future child’s health. Here is how PGT-P differs from other embryo tests, where its evidence falls short and what the UK regulator says.
Health technology
Why health chatbots can stumble in conversation
A controlled study of UK adults shows why medical knowledge scores and useful conversations are different tests of a health chatbot.
Health technology
Wegovy without the needle: what changes with a pill?
Oral Wegovy changes the treatment routine as well as the delivery route. UK product information explains what the tablet evidence does—and does not—show.
Health technology
The two kinds of help inside AI glasses for sight loss
Generated descriptions and live video calls to people offer different kinds of assistance. Here is how those routes differ on supported Meta glasses.
Health technology
When your Oura ring meets your blood test
Health Panels puts external laboratory results beside wearable data. Booking a blood draw, uploading a report and interpreting the result remain separate steps.
Health technology
AI can write the notes. Do doctors get their time back?
A randomized crossover trial found differences in note-writing time without clear reductions in after-hours EHR work. The distinction matters when evaluating an ambient scribe.
Health technology
Can a blood test for many cancers help people live longer?
NHS-Galleri reported more screen-detected cancers and a stage IV signal, but missed its primary endpoint. Neither finding answers the mortality question.