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Your health data recorded from the Apple Watch and iPhone gets stored in the Health app for iPhone. As long as your iPhone (and the recipient’s) is running iOS 15 or higher, you can now choose to share health data with family, friends, or your doctor. We’ll show you how. Sharing Data from the iPhone Health App You can share iPhone Health app data, provided that the other party is in your contacts and also has an iPhone that’s running iOS 15 or later. If neither of you has iOS 15 yet, you can update your iPhone to install it. For this feature to be useful, you’ll also need some health data to share. To share health data, launch the Health app and tap on the Sharing tab. Tap on “Share with Someone,” and then search for the person who you want to share with. You can only share health data with people who already appear in your contacts list, so make sure that you add your doctor via the Phone or Contacts app beforehand. Next, you’ll be asked whether you want to “See …

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Air pollution is expensive. Like, really freaking expensive. That’s why it’s worthwhile to keep our air clean. A study out recently has found that reduced air pollution levels between 1999 Advertisement The study published in the American Economic Review last month looked at how efforts to reduce air pollution from 1999 Air pollution does not impact us all equally. For the older among us, even low levels of air pollution may increase their risk of death . That’s especially true for black and low-income elderly people. And if we’re being real, people of color generally deal with an unfair amount of air pollution risk. That also means cleaning up air pollution can have huge benefits for those people, particularly Medicare beneficiaries. To reach their conclusions, the team of scientists pulled county-level air quality data from the Environmental Protection Agency with a focus on particulate matter, as well as wind direction. They then coupled …

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Tennis giant Naomi Osaka has dropped out of the French Open after clashing with the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and one day after officials threatened to expel her from the upcoming Grand Slam tournament all over her refusal to show up for press conferences after her matches. Listen: Media is important, and it’s part of the job of professional athletes to engage the media, but at the same time, people who don’t regularly experience social anxiety don’t understand how extreme and debilitating it can be. Advertisement “Never before has such a consequential star exited an event as big as the French Open over something that nearly every top tennis player has said in recent days is as much a part of being on the tour as lengthy travel schedules,” the New York Times reports . And while that might be true, the fact that a thing is standard doesn’t mean it’s always healthy, and sometimes what a job requires can be too much. Osaka decided for herself that part of …

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This afternoon Donald Trump received one of his worst political defeats yet, as his administration’s beleaguered Obamacare replacement was kicked within an inch of its life to a delayed vote because literally everybody on the planet hates it. This was partially due to the fact that Trump’s proposed replacement was an impossibility, and also an acknowledgment that, as Trump himself inimitably put it recently, health care is much more complicated than he initially understood. Also, perhaps Obamacare is a flawed but functioning and improving replacement to a broken system that was only vilified by an obstructionist, idea-less Republican party. Who knows! Advertisement Still, surprisingly, Trump has not responded to this setback by lashing out on Twitter or hunkering down with Paul Ryan to strategize a new bill that might better serve Americans, or, more specifically, the incredibly small slice of rich people that they consider Americans. No, instead Donald Trump has …

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Facebook has launched a tool in partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital to help people find covid-19 vaccine appointments, according to a press release from the social media company early Monday . The tool only works in the U.S. right now, but Facebook says it hopes to roll out the vaccine finder in more regions as the coronavirus inoculations Advertisement Users can visit Facebook’s Covid-19 Vaccine Info Center where they’ll be able to see hours of operation for locations with the vaccine, along with contact info and links online to make an appointment to get the jab. The Facebook tool is “Today we’re launching a global campaign to help bring 50 million people a step closer to getting Covid-19 vaccines,” Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post overnight. “We’ve already connected over 2 billion people to authoritative Covid-19 information,” Zuckerberg continued. “ And while Zuck is correct that Facebook has G/O Media may get a …

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A dangerous, drug-resistant fungal infection seems to have accomplished a new scary feat in the U.S. On Friday, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported two unrelated outbreaks of Candida auris that happened earlier this year. The outbreaks were found in long-term care facilities and hospitals and featured fully and highly resistant strains that were likely transmitted between people, making them the first such reported cases in the country. Advertisement C. auris is an emerging superbug threat first discovered in 2009. Though the fungus can colonize people without making them sick, it has a high lethality when it becomes a widespread infection that invades different parts of the body, including the blood (upward of 30% mortality rate). This risk is especially serious for people with already weakened immune systems, like those visiting hospitals or living in long-term care facilities. It’s unnerved doctors and public health …

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