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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Jessica Salter

Prevention is better than cure: How the Oura Ring could transform medicine

Picture the scene: breakfast time in a hectic family kitchen, with homework, work emails and chatter. A monitor sits discreetly on a counter, showing not only the weather and family calendar, but everybody’s health stats.

One child might be about to come down with a cold; another needs an early night after too-little REM sleep. Someone else needs motivation to exercise after a sedentary day, while another, newly diagnosed with pre-diabetes, receives AI nutritional coaching over a bowl of porridge.

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