Amelia Wong is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on consumer technology, digital wellness, health-related tools, calculators, and practical lifestyle explainers. Articles under this byline help readers understand everyday data, online tools, and wellness-related information without replacing professional advice.

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Health & Wellness

A bathroom scale's rounding can shift a sweat-rate test by a tenth of a litre an hour

Sweat rate is body weight before exercise minus weight after, plus fluid drunk, minus urine, divided by the hours. On a scale that reads to 0.1 kg, rounding alone can move a one-hour result by up to 0.1 litre an hour, and runners measured in Singapore and Thailand averaged inside the typical published range.

8 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Personality

Blood type explains almost none of the variation in large Japanese and US surveys

The belief that ABO blood type shapes temperament and compatibility has been popular in Japan since a 1971 book. In surveys of nearly 9,700 people in Japan and the US, blood type explained less than 0.3% of the variation in answers on every test, and the few positive findings elsewhere are faint or confined to believers.

7 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Health & Wellness

A Guide for New Mothers Missed Its Main Goal but Nearly Doubled Primary Care Visits

In a US trial of 405 low-income patients, almost nobody received all six essential postpartum services. Those with a navigator still got more of them, and kept seeing doctors.

7 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
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Health & Wellness

Only 1 in 32 Young Americans With Opioid Addiction Stayed on Medication for Six Months

A study of nearly 230,000 Medicaid patients aged 13 to 25 found that under-18s rarely received the drugs at all. A second paper links longer medication use to fewer deaths after childbirth.

5 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
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Health & Wellness

Menopause Brought On by Surgery or Cancer Treatment Before 45 Was Linked to Higher Death Risk

A review of 36 studies and 2.6 million women finds induced menopause linked to more stroke and heart disease. Excess deaths were confined to women under 45 when it happened.

3 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
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Health & Wellness

Melanoma Immunotherapy Left Half of Patients With Lasting Side Effects. A Study Asks Who.

In 303 patients treated after surgery, 48% had side effects that persisted after stopping, most often thyroid problems. Early onset treated with steroids tripled the odds.

3 Oct 2026 · 3 min read
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Health & Wellness

Colour-blindness simulators give their least consistent answers on blue and yellow

A colour-blindness simulator runs each pixel through a published model of colour-vision deficiency. We compared the three main models on 4,913 screen colours: they largely agree on red-green confusions and split on blue-yellow ones.

3 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Home & Living

Chinese knots are far older than the name a 1981 Taipei book made common in Taiwan

The name Chinese knot (中國結) became common in Taiwan after a 1981 Taipei book, according to the Taipei City Government, while the knots themselves go back far further. The book's editions by catalogue record, the thirteen basic knots, what museum pieces show, where the craft is a registered heritage item, and whose meanings are whose.

3 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Home & Living

South Korea's limit on hanja in names is an exact sum of three lists

South Korea's schools have a list of 1,800 basic hanja, and its name rules allow 9,389 entries (인명용 한자), which is those 1,800 plus two Supreme Court tables. How each list has changed, why a hanja's spelling moves within a word, and why a Traditional or Japanese form can miss the Korean one.

3 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Health & Wellness

Boehringer's Obesity Drug Cut Weight 13.1% in Its Best Measure. Counting Everyone, 9.8%.

In adults with type 2 diabetes, survodutide's NEJM paper and the company release lead with different figures. Nearly one in five on the drug stopped because of stomach side effects.

3 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
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