Here’s How to Check Your iPhone’s Battery Health

Earlier this year, Apple retested the batteries of its iPhone 15 models and updated its battery life claims for the entire series, suggesting that they offer better longevity than previously thought. Curious about the battery health of your iPhone 15? Here’s how to check it. Apple in February 2024 updated the technical specifications for the … Read more

Dad’s gut microbes matter for pregnancy health and baby’s growth

THE PAPER IN BRIEF • Gut bacteria can affect biological processes at body sites far from the gut. • The extent to which gut bacteria can affect reproductive tissues is not fully understood. • Argaw-Denboba et al.1 report that altering the community of gut bacteria in male mice had negative consequences for the health and … Read more

What toilets can reveal about COVID, cancer and other health threats

In late 2020, COVID-19’s global death toll was rising as cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere and holiday gatherings spurred rapid transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the absence of a vaccine. Scientists and public-health officials were desperate for new ways to track the virus, which often moved faster than contact tracers could follow it. Tong Zhang, … Read more

Hospital helpdesks targeted by hackers — US Health Department warns health services are under threat

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a warning that hackers are attempting to target the helpdesks of hospitals in order to gain access to critical hospital systems. The hackers have been observed contacting hospital IT help desks using local area code phone numbers and then pretending to be a hospital … Read more

Fitbit’s health chatbot will arrive later this year

Like most other corners of the tech world, Google sees AI powering the next innovations in health technology. The company’s annual The Check Up event expanded on its plans to add a personal health chatbot to the Fitbit app, expand Google Lens for better skin condition searches and use a version of its Gemini chatbot … Read more

A spotlight on the stark imbalances of global health research

Credit: Taj Francis Last year, the Nature Index was broadened to include author affiliations from articles in more than 60 medical journals. The expansion, which covers all major disciplines and specialities in clinical medicine and surgery, offers new insights into global publishing trends in the health sciences. This is the first supplement to explore some … Read more

Take these steps to accelerate the path to gender equity in health sciences

Diversity in science is instrumental in achieving major breakthroughs. Without further accelerating gender parity and other types of diversity — including focusing on the needs of those in and working towards leadership roles — we will continue to lose valuable ground. At a time when academia faces some of its greatest workforce gaps in history, … Read more