Health technology
Glucose spikes without diabetes: what can a monitor tell you?
A glucose trace can reveal patterns without proving better health. Recent reviews explain why healthy adults and people with prediabetes need separate consideration.
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Patient guides · Page 4
Clear starting points for patients and travelers, with sources and scope made explicit.
Health technology
Biological-age tests: does a younger score mean slower ageing?
Different clocks answer different questions. New research shows some scores respond to interventions, while their link to longer, healthier lives remains unresolved.
Health technology
Heart rate variability: what your wearable’s HRV reading means
HRV readings depend on how and when they are measured. Here is how personal baselines, overnight averages and device labels change their meaning.
Health technology
What is VO₂ max, and how accurate is your smartwatch’s estimate?
A watch estimates VO₂ max without measuring your breathing. Learn what the number means, how Apple calculates it and what validation studies can establish.
Health technology
Does red light therapy work? The evidence for home devices
Some light-treatment studies report benefits, but their results do not apply to every home mask or panel. Device settings, study populations and outcomes matter.
Health technology
Can your Apple Watch really measure blood pressure?
What Apple's hypertension notifications detect, why they do not provide a blood-pressure reading, and where the feature's limits matter.
Health technology
Your sleep score changed: what wearable ratings actually measure
Apple and Google turn sleep data into different ratings. Here is what feeds those numbers, why an update can change them, and what a score cannot establish.
Health technology
Hearing aids in earbuds and glasses: how the technology differs
AirPods and hearing glasses combine familiar hardware with amplification. Their fitting methods, software modes and evidence are different.
Travel & assistance
European Health Insurance Card: what it covers and what it leaves out
How EHIC works during a temporary stay, why local charges can still apply, and where to apply or renew, including the Irish service.
Travel & assistance
Cross Border Directive: how Ireland’s planned-care scheme works
Who Ireland’s Cross Border Directive scheme is for, how reimbursement is capped, and how it differs from EHIC and the Treatment Abroad Scheme.