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Dive deeper into the week's most important health tech stories with thoughtful commentary and analysis. Perfect for your commute, workout, or downtime.
Wearables May Spot Parkinson's Progression Before the Clinic Does
In Episode 7, Deveendra Murmu investigates a landmark study showing wearables can track Parkinson's disease progression more precisely than clinic visits alone — detecting change as early as 10 months out. Plus: the FDA opens drug trials to wearables and digital health tools, a UCLA microneedle sensor detects kidney and liver stress before standard blood tests can, wearable data strengthens early diabetes-risk detection, and a meta-analysis confirms wearables measurably reduce depression and anxiety. Five signals. All filtered through a privacy-first lens.
Meta Just Put a Health AI in Your WhatsApp — and Asked for Your Lab Results
In Episode 6, Deveendra Murmu unpacks Meta's Muse Spark expansion across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger with health-capable AI — and the WIRED report revealing it asked users for raw lab results. Plus: Sibel Health wins FDA clearance for the world's first fully wireless maternal-fetal monitoring wearable, ex-Apple engineers launch a tap-to-activate privacy-first AI wearable, an Oura Ring study links overnight sleep data to cardiovascular age, and Humana, Noom, and Welldoc expand patient-controlled health record access through b.well.
Your Doctor's Notes Are Now in Google's Hands
In Episode 5, Deveendra Murmu unpacks Google and CMS's federal partnership to put your official medical records inside the Fitbit app — and what it means that HIPAA protects your clinical data but not your wearable data in the same app. Plus: Samsung Galaxy Watch launches wrist blood pressure monitoring without FDA clearance, WHOOP raises $10.1 billion while fighting a regulatory warning letter, the FDA redraws the line between wellness wearable and medical device, and FemTech's privacy crisis accelerates as period apps share intimate data with insurers.
The Week Health Tech Got Personal
In Episode 4, Deveendra Murmu covers the most pivotal health technology updates from the week of March 22–28, 2026 — filtered through a privacy-first lens. Five signals that matter, with honest analysis of what they mean for your health, your data, and your future.
21 Days Too Late: Your Apple Watch Knew First
In Episode 3, Deveendra Murmu unpacks a landmark Nature Medicine study proving Apple Watch can predict heart failure hospitalisations 21 days in advance — and asks who really owns that signal. Plus: Apple Watch enters a 500-patient Parkinson's drug trial, a Duke University blood test predicts 2-year survival with 86% accuracy, 3.1 million dermatology records stolen with a 2-month notification delay, and Iran-backed hackers wipe Stryker's medical device systems.
Microsoft Wants to Be Your AI Doctor. Should You Let It?
In Episode 2, Deveendra Murmu unpacks Microsoft's new Copilot Health platform — which connects your wearables and medical records into a single AI dashboard. Plus: ARPA-H's $144 million bet on aging interventions, a Harvard study proving a daily multivitamin slows biological aging, the AAN's first formal guidance on consumer wearables in clinical care, and a 15-million-patient data breach that went undetected for years.
Your Wearable Data Is for Sale. The FDA Just Allowed It.
In the debut episode of LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu breaks down the FDA's January 2026 guidance that reclassified millions of wearable health devices — removing them from HIPAA protections and making your health data legally shareable. Plus four more stories: ChatGPT Health's emergency triage failures, new brain data privacy laws, a longevity blood test with 86% accuracy, and AI selfie biomarker screening.
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🎙️ Weekly Episodes
A new episode every week, synchronised with the written brief. Episodes run 10–15 minutes — concise enough for a commute, substantive enough to matter.
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Every claim is backed by peer-reviewed research, official regulatory filings, or verified news sources. No speculation, no hype — just the signal.
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Every story is filtered through a data privacy lens. We ask the questions the press releases don't answer: who owns your health data, and what are they doing with it?