NYT: Why Older People May Not Need to Watch Blood Sugar So Closely
The elder Ms. Larson, 85, has had Type 2 diabetes for decades. Now her endocrinologist and her primary care doctor worry that hypoglycemia may cause falls, broken bones, heart arrhythmias and cognitive damage.
Both have advised her to let her hemoglobin A1c, a measure of average blood glucose over several months, rise past 7 percent. “They say, ‘Don’t worry too much about the highs — we want to prevent the lows,’” the younger Ms. Larson said.
NYT: New Insights Into Older Hearts
One intervention known to benefit patients with heart disease is cardiac rehabilitation: a program of regular, supervised exercise that significantly reduces heart attacks, hospitalization and cardiovascular deaths.
But cardiac rehab remains perennially underused. Only about one-quarter of eligible patients participate, Dr. Dodson said, and among older adults, who could benefit even more, the proportion is lower still.
How to Geek: iOS and macOS May Get a Massive UI Redesign in Late 2025
Rumors suggest that Apple will announce a major iOS, iPadOS, and macOS software design overhaul at WWDC 2025. If true, this will be the biggest iOS UI revamp since 2013, and it will replace a lot of the iPhone-like design elements that invaded macOS in 2020.
Apple hasn’t commented on the rumors, which were first published by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg. Gurman is a well-known Apple analyst and fairly reliable leaker who sources information from Apple employees, partners, distributors. So, while we can’t verify the rumors, they are within the realm of possibility.
The “key goal” of this overhaul, per Gurman, is to make Apple’s varying operating systems “look similar and more consistent.” Longtime Apple customers may be confused by this statement. After all, Apple has spent more than a decade chipping away at macOS' old-school “Aqua” design language in order to make the desktop operating system more iOS-like. The Big Sur update in 2020 was widely praised (and criticized) for its use of iOS stylings, and unless Apple is prepared to give us a touchscreen MacBook, it seems that macOS is about as similar to iOS as it can be.
Last Updated: 10.Mar.2025 23:56 EDT
