Health

The team is constructing the Human Flatus Atlas, bringing modern wearable monitors to bear on digestive health, measuring the frequency and intensity of farts. The team even had to create an artificial butt that could pass gas on command while developing the prototype. According to the Wall Street Journal:

This Politico story is a fascinating deep dive into Oura cozying up to the government. What caught my eye is a tidbit that Oura is lobbying lawmakers for a “digital health screener” device classification process that would sidestep the more intensive FDA clearance process for medical devices.

But here’s Dave Wiskus, founder of the Nebula streaming service, on how AG1 did not pass muster as a sponsor. If you’re curious to learn more, may I point you to this week’s Optimizer?

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is “scaling back” plans for the coach and will instead roll out some of what it had been working on into the Heath app over time. Maybe not the worst idea.

The withdrawal from the World Health Organization makes good on an executive order Trump issued on his first day in office. Per The New York Times:

The Washington Post has an excellent piece (subscription required) debunking this viral theory. If the levels of EMF radiation measured at the 49ers’ practice facility weakened ligaments, we’d all have torn ACLs. When cornered, Peter Cowan, the self-proclaimed expert who popularized this theory, admitted he had no hard evidence and moved the goalposts:

Planet-heating carbon and methane pollution had actually fallen by around 20 percent over the past decade, but ticked back up again in 2025 as the Trump administration slashed environmental regulations.

Unlike the consumer-facing ChatGPT Health announced Wednesday, the new OpenAI for Healthcare products launching today are designed do things like create reusable templates for discharge summaries and patient instructions, or analyze medical evidence to apply to specific patients.

This is Mor, a wearable for men suffering from premature ejaculation. It zaps the perineum — or the taint — to help you delay orgasm or intensify it. I’ve been covering this device for six years, so enjoy this video, and stay tuned for my full hands-on. (Update: The hands-on is now available right here.)

The Trump administration — and antivax crusader RFK Jr. — are cutting down the number of childhood immunizations federal agencies recommend.

Just like last year, Apple has announced new fitness content that will start rolling out next week (if you want to try another app, we’ve got suggestions).

In the middle of threatening funding for hospitals that provide gender-related care to minors and trying to tack his name onto the Kennedy Center, the president also signed another executive order.

After Simon Fondrie-Teitler called out the Dekoda health tracker’s incorrect use of the term end-to-end encryption because Kohler does have access to the data it collects, the company has updated the toilet cam’s product pages to now say that user data is “encrypted in transit and at rest.”