After a long wait,
Apple Watch owners in Malaysia are now finally able to utilize the ECG app in their smartwatch today. This is due to the rollout of the new
watchOS 7.5 and
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These updates have also opened up the irregular heart rhythm notification feature (IRNF) in Malaysia as well. IRNF is supported by all models across the family since Apple Watch Series 1 but you need either Apple Watch Series 4, Series 5, or Series 6 if you want to utilize the ECG app.
Among the main aim of the ECG app and IRNF is allowing users to identify a heart condition called atrial fibrillation (AFib) which if left unchecked could lead to stroke. Dr Mohamed Ezani Taib of the National Heart Institute (IJN) pointed out that one-third of IJN’s 200,000 annual cases consist of AFib which showed how common this is in Malaysia.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a strong statement about the effectiveness of vaccines when it decided that fully vaccinated people don t need to wear masks in most circumstances. But it left some parents concerned about how the change might affect children too young to be vaccinated.
Dr. Paul Offit, who heads the vaccine education center at Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, says that the new mask guidance is mostly good news. But I think that has made this world a little less safe for young children, he says.
Even a vaccinated parent can occasionally get infected with the coronavirus. There s also a small risk that the virus can pass to an unvaccinated child.
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For children, the risk of serious consequences from COVID-19 is the same magnitude as the risk they face from the flu. But for parents, experts say, it s a matter of perspective. d3sign/Getty Images
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a strong statement about the effectiveness of vaccines when it decided that fully vaccinated people don t need to wear masks in most circumstances. But it left some parents concerned about how the change might affect children too young to be vaccinated.
Dr. Paul Offit, who heads the vaccine education center at Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, says that the new mask guidance is mostly good news.
by Michela Kane May 25, 2021 .
DURHAM – Smartwatches and other wearable devices may be used to sense illness, dehydration and even changes to the red blood cell count, according to biomedical engineers and genomics researchers at Duke University and the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The researchers say that, with the help of machine learning, wearable device data on heart rate, body temperature and daily activities may be used to predict health measurements that are typically observed during a clinical blood test. The study appears in Nature Medicine on May 24, 2021.
During a doctor’s office visit, a medical worker usually measures a patient’s vital signs, including their height, weight, temperature and blood pressure. Although this information is filed away in a person’s long-term health record, it isn’t usually used to create a diagnosis. Instead, physicians will order a clinical lab, which tests a patient’s urine or blood, to gather specific biological
What is your best temperature?
Nidhal Guessoum
May 25, 2021 21:55
Students have their temperature checked at Yio Chu Kang Secondary School, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Singapore, Jun. 2, 2020. (Reuters)
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As if temperatures had not already become a constant factor in our lives, the pandemic brought hand-held thermometers and infrared heat cameras to the entrance of every building. In one strangely funny instance, a door guard took my temperature and quickly said “step aside,” showing me the reading: 39.1 degrees Celsius. I very much doubted that I was sick and, just as I was about to protest, the guard said: “Don’t worry, we’ll redo it in a few minutes, very often it’s an erroneous reading.” And so it proved to be.