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This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu breaks down a new Parkinson’s wearable study that suggests continuous sensor data may detect disease progression earlier than clinic visits alone. We also cover the FDA’s push to use more digital health tools in drug trials, a microneedle wearable that may flag kidney and liver stress early, new evidence linking everyday wearable data to insulin-resistance d...

This week's LifeeCode brief examines Meta's new health-capable AI rollout and why consumer AI asking for sensitive medical information is fundamentally a privacy story. The episode also covers FDA-cleared maternal-fetal wearables, wearable-ring vascular-age estimation, and the latest push toward patient-controlled health-data interoperability.

Health data privacy just changed — and most people haven't noticed yet. This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu breaks down the five health tech stories that matter most right now: • Google and the U.S. government have partnered to put your official medical records inside the Fitbit app — HIPAA covers the clinical data, but your wearable data in the same app is not HIPAA-protected. • Samsung G...

Did you know your new AI chatbot might be reading your medical records? Between January and March of 2026, five major tech companies launched health-specific AI products designed to connect directly to your most sensitive data—completely outside of HIPAA protections. In this week's LifeeCode brief, we unpack the massive new rush to centralise medical data and what it means for your privacy. Ke...

This week on LifeeCode: a landmark Nature Medicine study proves your Apple Watch can predict a heart failure hospitalisation **21 days before it happens** — with a threefold accuracy advantage over traditional clinical assessments. Plus: Apple Watch is now tracking Parkinson's motor symptoms in a 500-patient drug trial; a Duke University blood test predicts two-year survival with 86% accuracy...

Have you ever stared at a lab result portal, completely baffled by what it means for your actual life? Or wondered why your smartwatch, your fitness app, and your doctor's records never seem to talk to each other? This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu dives into the massive launch of Microsoft Copilot Health. By finally integrating data from over 50 wearable devices with electronic health re...

Your wearable is tracking your heart rate, sleep, blood oxygen, and glucose. The FDA just reclassified millions of these devices — and your health data may now be legally for sale. In Episode 1 of LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu breaks down the FDA's January 2026 guidance documents that quietly moved smartwatches, sleep trackers, and optical glucose sensors out of medical device oversight and into...