Boutique fitness fuels growth in a stagnant gym market
Boutique fitness studios emerge as the only growth segment in a sluggish gym industry. Young consumers prefer on demand classes with limited spots, fees for cancellations, and celebrity instructors driving demand. Big chains imitate studio models to keep valuable training dollars, says industry groups.
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Association of Fitness Studies
Netpulse
Stephens
Greg Skloot
San Francisco
Skloot
Kwan
Yongpiansuksa
Barbell Brigade
Zuniga
Cycle House
Peter Marcos
Gold’s
Gold’s Studio
Association of Fitness Studios
Big Box
Sleep trackers reliability and better sleep tips
Wearable sleep trackers often rely on motion detection and show light versus deep sleep but analysis against polysomnography finds them largely inaccurate especially for people who wake often. For healthy adults aim seven hours, seek medical help for trouble sleeping, and improve habits like a consistent schedule, limited evening caffeine, daytime exercise, wind-down routine, dark quiet bedroom, and avoiding electronics and late meals.
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American Academy of Sleep Medicine
FDA approves Kymriah gene therapy for pediatric leukemia
The FDA approved Kymriah a CAR T cell therapy hailed as a living drug for relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia in patients up to 25. In trials 73 of 88 patients reached remission. the treatment harvests patient T cells, reprograms them to target cancer, then reinfuses them.
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Scott Gottlieb
Gottlieb
Crystal L. Mackall
Stanford University
Cancer Institute
Kymriah
United States
Stephan Grupp
Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia
Emily Whitehead
Philipsburg
Grupp
Novartis
Morris Plains
N.J
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