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Should you sync your workouts to your period?WorldPing
BBC Health

Should you sync your workouts to your period?

Menstrual cycles are highly individual, making blanket advice found on social media difficult to apply, researchers say.

Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by BBC Health

STAT+: Can AI fix the emergency room?WorldPing
STAT

STAT+: Can AI fix the emergency room?

AI can't change the ER's problems, which exemplify health care's bigger problems, writes Brittany Trang in this week's AI Prognosis.

Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by STAT

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