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By Aditi Pai | 07:00 am | July 31, 2014
Teledermatology referrals that use a smartphone with an attached dermoscope allowed dermatologists to manage their patients faster and more efficiently than by traditional paper referrals, according to a paper published in medical journal Acta Dermato-Venereologica.
By Jonah Comstock | 05:00 am | July 31, 2014
Two years after its first foray into the hardware space, Austrian fitness company Runtastic is launching a new $119.
By Brian Dolan | 10:35 am | July 30, 2014
Castlight Health, which went public earlier this year, inked deals with 26 more employers during the second quarter, including new deals with six Fortune 500 companies like Google, Sprint, The Kellogg Company, and Texas Instruments.
By Aditi Pai | 01:27 pm | July 29, 2014
Activity tracker company Fitbit launched a native app for Windows 8.
By Brian Dolan | 08:22 am | July 29, 2014
Palo Alto, California-based Kurbo Health, which is developing a mobile-enabled program aimed at preventing childhood obesity, has raised $4 million new funding in addition to the $1.
By Jonah Comstock | 08:07 am | July 28, 2014
Once again, Google has captured the news cycle with the announcement of an ambitious, health-focused project.
By Aditi Pai | 10:37 am | July 24, 2014
Mobile wellness social network developer PumpUp raised $2.
By Aditi Pai | 10:50 am | July 23, 2014
A group of researchers from Spain have published a paper on a seatbelt and seat cover embedded with sensors that can detect the driver's respiration and heart rate to combat the driver fatalities and car accidents caused by fatigue.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:45 am | July 22, 2014
Apple has been granted a patent, filed originally in July 2011, for a wrist-worn iWatch device, giving a new peek into some possible features of the much-hyped device rumored to be launching in October.
By Aditi Pai | 11:22 am | July 22, 2014
About 9 percent of Americans received comparative information about doctors from a ratings website like HealthGrades.