Could Your Apple Watch Detect a Heart Condition?
Could your Apple Watch someday end up saving your life? If the initial results of Apple’s latest venture are a success, that could very well be the case. As CNBC first reported, Apple will soon begin...
View ArticleQuit Your Fitbit? Study Sheds Light on Why People Stop Using Wearables
It’s somewhat of a familiar story: You unwrap a shiny new Fitbit on Christmas morning, and it becomes your obsession for a month or so. You increase your workouts to get in those extra steps, and maybe...
View ArticleWho’s Using mHealth? Study Says Healthier, Younger People
There are a plethora of mHealth devices and apps available today, ranging from fitness trackers to mobile apps that provide advice to new parents to devices designed to help diabetes patients...
View ArticleMobile Smoking Cessation Tool Earns FDA Approval
It seems like mobile apps these days have the power to help us do virtually anything, from hailing a ride to applying for a job to managing our health. Indeed, recent studies have showcased apps’...
View ArticleWhile mHealth Usage is on the Rise, Health Literacy is Not
Pay a visit to the Apple or Google app store, and chances are, you’ll be overwhelmed by the number of health-related apps that are available for download, from those that allow provide infant care and...
View ArticleBig Savings From Digital Health, Per New Study
It’s easy to visit Apple’s App Store or the Google Play store and feel overwhelmed by the number of health-related apps now available for download. Indeed, apps can do everything from providing infant...
View ArticleDiagnosing COPD From Your Voice? New App Makes That a Reality
An estimated more than 30 million Americans currently have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Each year, according to one study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it...
View ArticleUsing Fitbits to Further Precision Medicine: Fitbit, STSI Team Up
For the more than 23 million people (at last count) who currently use Fitbits, the devices might seem like they have little purpose beyond a user’s own daily life—beyond serving as a way to track...
View ArticleMaking Lab Tests More Accessible: rHEALTH Device Approved in EU
What if you could, from the comfort of your own home and with just one drop of blood, screen yourself for a variety of health care conditions? As highlighted in an Institute of Electrical and...
View ArticleCan Wearables Detect Epileptic Seizures and Diabetes?
An estimated 1.3 million to 2.8 million Americans currently have epilepsy, a disorder that causes chronic seizures, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. (The CDC puts the number higher, at 3.4...
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