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AliveCor's 510(k) clearances revealed: high, low heart rate indications, and...
The last couple of months saw a pair of regulatory clearances from mobile ECG maker AliveCor surface on the FDA’s 510(k) premarket notification database — the first in March for something called...
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Seven ways health consumers are tracking their sleep
Everyone sleeps. But not everyone sleeps well. And the quality of your sleep can have far-reaching effects on your mental and physical health.Considering all that, it’s no surprise that sleep health...
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AI triage tools won't empower consumers without mastering convenient,...
Healthcare has long had an access issue. While some patients might have the knowledge, experience and opportunity to pursue optimal care when they’re ill, countless others are unaware of the whens,...
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Personalized wellness company Arivale shuts down consumer operations
Personalized wellness company Arivale has shut down its consumer operations, according to a statement posted on the company's website. MedCityNews first spotted the post."Regrettably, effective today,...
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Garmin adds menstrual cycle tracking to its consumer offerings
Garmin is the latest to throw its hat into the mobile women’s health ring, as this morning the company announced new menstrual cycle tracking to its app-based online fitness service alongside a slew of...
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Connecting the dots of health consumerism, digital health, and health and...
When we talk about health consumerism or the consumerization of health, the topic encompasses a lot of disparate ideas. In her new book Health Consuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, Jane...
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Facebook unveils health support groups, new privacy feature for medical topics
Facebook Groups were a hot topic at the social media company’s Facebook F8 conference earlier this week, and health was one of the main focuses. The social media platform announced that it has created...
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Older patients more aware of personalized medicine, but younger patients...
Awareness of personalized medicine and treatment is slowly, but gradually, on the rise, according to the results of a recent survey polling 1,000 consumers published by automated dosage platform maker...
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Apple's immediate plans rumored to include hearing health, period tracking,...
With Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference less than month away, speculations about what will be unveiled are starting to emerge. Citing unnamed inside sources, Bloomberg has reported a list of...
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All of Us celebrates one-year anniversary with public launch of participant...
The NIH’s All of Us Research Program celebrated its one-year anniversary today with new updates on enrollment progress, previews of its upcoming cloud-based data platform for health researchers and the...
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New York startup Journey Meditation plans to bring group meditation to a...
A new platform, dubbed Journey LIVE, is seeking to bring a group meditation experience to home users. This morning New York-based Journey Meditation launched the app, which will enable users to stream...
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FDA clears AliveCor's six-lead smartphone ECG
Mobile consumer ECG maker AliveCor announced today that its long-teased six-lead ECG device has been cleared by the FDA and will be available to customers in June of this year.“[The KardiaMobile 6L...
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Apple acquires patent rights for in-bed health sensor system
Apple has acquired the worldwide rights to a patent describing a means of monitoring a user’s health while they sleep, without the use of a smart device like the iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch.The patent,...
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YouTube star Dr. Mike on technology's role in the future of medicine
Dubbed the "Sexiest Doctor Alive" by People Magazine, YouTube star and family medicine physician Dr. Mikhail Varshavski, better known as Dr. Mike, has taken to YouTube to dish out advice on health and...
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FDA warns consumers, providers of unvetted glucose management devices, systems
On Friday, the FDA issued a warning to patients and providers describing the dangers of diabetes management devices and software that haven’t been assessed by the agency. These include any unapproved...
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MyHeritage expands into health-focused DNA testing
MyHeritage, an Israeli company that has been doing ancestry-related genetic testing since 2016, has announced a new product that brings the company into the health-focused consumer DNA testing space...
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Fitness platform Aaptiv adds new AI coach
This morning, digital fitness company Aaptiv released its new artificial-intelligence-enabled trainer the Aaptiv Coach. The new technology uses a proprietary algorithm to personalize fitness routines...
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Comcast rumored to pilot in-home health monitors before year's end
Comcast is actively working on an in-home device for monitoring the health of seniors, people with disabilities and other at-risk individuals, according to anonymous sources cited by CNBC (whose parent...
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Documents, anonymous source describe Amazon's wearable, app for voice-based...
Amazon is building a wrist-worn device and accompanying app that listens to the wearer’s voice to identify their emotions, according to an anonymous source as well as internal documents acquired and...
View ArticleApple acquires asthma monitoring startup Tueo Health
This month’s news that Apple had picked up the patent rights for a passive health monitoring system from startup Tueo Health does not appear to the only business occurring between the two companies. On...
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