Samsung says it has received FDA clearance for smartwatch ECG tracking
Alongside yesterday's reveal of the Galaxy Watch3, Samsung announced that it has received regulatory clearance from the FDA for its ECG monitoring app.But while the watch – which also has built-in...
View ArticleUS' first Apple-Google COVID-19 tracing app goes live in Virginia
The first U.S. COVID-19 contact tracing app built on Apple and Google's Exposure Notifications system tools has launched in the state of Virginia.The free COVIDWISE app for Android and iOS smartphones...
View ArticleAmazon Alexa & Oral-B ink deal for voice-integrated toothbrush system
The dental care space is now merging with voice technology in a new partnership between dental giant Oral-B and Amazon Alexa. The pair are collaborating on a voice-integrated toothbrush system that...
View ArticleSigma partners with ORCHA to improve health app accessibility
UK-based UX design and development agency, Sigma, has been selected by health app evaluation and advisor organisation, ORCHA, to improve usability and accessibility of their health apps.ORCHA provides...
View ArticleRoche & aMoon kick off digital diagnostic investment program; former...
Driving digital diagnosis. Roche and Israeli life sciences investment firm aMoon announced plans this week to launch an early-stage investment program called StarFinder Lab. Focused on novel diagnostic...
View ArticleRoundup: NHS Tayside launches app to help IBS sufferers, Thirona launches...
NHS TAYSIDE LAUNCHES NEW INHEALTHCARE APP NHS Tayside is launching a new app in partnership with Inhealthcare to help people suffering from IBS.The new app has been funded by the Scottish Government’s...
View Article23andMe's consumer pharmacogenetics report no longer requires follow-up...
23andMe announced this morning that it has received a 510(k) clearance from the FDA that allows its direct-to-consumer personal pharmacogenetics report to guide use of two treatments without the need...
View ArticleUSPS service delays are hitting some mail-order pharmacies and telehealth...
The United States Postal Service has been at the heart of a bitter partisan divide over the last few months of COVID-19 and the U.S. election season.Prominent Democratic politicians have alleged that...
View ArticleEarly smart clothing firm OMSignal is out of business
Correction: This story has been updated with comments from Carré Technologies on its ongoing suit with OMSignal.OMSignal, a Canadian digital health startup that helped to pioneer the smart clothing...
View ArticleAncestry's new 510(k) clearances point toward OTC consumer genetic health...
Consumer genomics company Ancestry recently received two FDA 510(k)s – one for an in vitro molecular test that detects genomic variants tied to potential disease risk, and another for a saliva-based...
View ArticleRoundup: UK rehab centre offers robotics equipment for patients, new...
UK rehabilitation centre offers robotics equipment for patients A UK-based care and rehab centre is now able to deliver robotics expertise as part of its global rehabilitation offering.Askham Village...
View ArticleElon Musk demos Neuralink implant in pigs, Ellipsis Health's vocal biomarker...
Hogwash, or a brain activity breakthrough? Friday evening came with a long-awaited look at the work of Neuralink, Elon Musk's ambitious brain-computer interface implant startup. In the streamed...
View ArticleApple, Google's contact tracing update streamlines user enrollment, asks less...
Apple and Google are refining their COVID-19 contact tracing framework to fast-track enrollment and, for Apple device owners, completely forego the need to download a separate app, representatives of...
View ArticleNurx sets sights on the migraine and headache space
Nurx, a women’s health platform best known for using telemedicine to connect patients with contraceptives and STI testing, is dipping into the migraine space. Today it launched a new service that lets...
View ArticleAbbott's FreeStyle Libre 2 CGM picks up Medicare coverage
Abbott announced yesterday that its recently cleared FreeStyle Libre 2 integrated continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system is now covered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and...
View ArticleuMotif raises £5m to power decentralised clinical trials
UK-based data capture software company, uMotif, has raised £5 million in a Series A investment round led by existing investor AlbionVC.The funding will accelerate uMotif’s growth and enable further...
View ArticleIsrael’s Sheba Medical Centre adopts respiratory guard system amid second...
As Israel faces a second wave of COVID-19, the Sheba Medical Centre is one of several major hospitals across the country to introduce a new respiratory guard system to prevent ventilator-associated...
View ArticleRoundup: Funding boost for AI-based epilepsy monitoring, North Tees and...
FUNDING BOOST FOR AI-BASED EPILEPSY MONITORING University spinout company Neuronostics has received funding to develop an AI-based system for more accurate diagnosis of epilepsy and to monitor response...
View ArticleBritish startup iAbra launches 20 second saliva-based COVID-19 test
British startup iAbra has launched a screening device which can deliver COVID-19 test results in 20 seconds.After a successful three-week trial at London’s Heathrow Airport, CEO John Holland-Kaye urged...
View ArticleApple adds SpO2 & V02 Max to Apple Watch Series 6, and launches three new...
Apple announced today at a virtual event that its upcoming Series 6 Apple Watch will include a blood oxygenation sensor, a first for the Apple Watch (but not for the wearable space). As it did with the...
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