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Tag: health
Apple’s glucose monitor better delivered via AirPods than the watch
Media reports suggest Apple is aggressively pursuing the creation of a non-invasive blood glucose monitor…
Apple secret team reportedly working holy grail for treating diabetes; initially envisioned by Steve Jobs
Apple has hired a small team of biomedical engineers to work at a nondescript office in Palo Alto…
A personal story: Apple Watch may have saved my life
Last November, my Android phone died as I descended on a JetBlue flight into San Francisco…
Can me-too Google’s me-too ‘Google Fit’ catch up with Apple’s revolutionary HealthKit?
Not long after Apple launched its health platform HealthKit on iOS in mid-2014…
Siri creator Dag Kittlaus diagnosed with same rare type of pancreatic cancer Steve Jobs had
Dag Kittlaus who sold his famous speech recognition company to Apple in 2010…
iPhone apps hold the potential to revolutionize health
More than a year and a half ago, Apple unveiled a new breed of iPhone apps that would let people…
Apple iPhone is a life saver: Girl, aged 3, uses FaceTime to get help for her unconscious mother
A girl aged just three has been hailed a hero after she called for help when she couldn’t wake her mum…
Emails between Apple and FDA hint at future plans
Since its well-publicized meeting with the FDA in 2013, Apple has continued to meet with the agency…
Apple scores major Apple Watch win
Just a few weeks after Apple, Inc. pointed out at its September event that it is now the second-largest watchmaker…
In major win for Apple, Aetna becomes first insurance company to subsidize Apple Watch
Aetna today announced a new initiative to revolutionize members’ consumer health experience…
Apple reportedly working on sleep tracker for the Apple Watch
During the unveiling of the new Apple Watch, the iPhone-maker presented the wearable as primarily a fitness device…
Apple to expand HealthKit from tracker to diagnosis tool; new Apple Watch apps for sleep tracking, fitness levels in pipeline
So far Apple Inc.’s HealthKit has mostly collected fitness data from its devices…
Apple working on all-new, advanced health-tracking hardware; years in the making
Apple has developed a ‘revolutionary idea’ with this new product…
How my Apple Watch saved my life
After I started walking from the parking lot to the front door of my office building, I began feeling…
Verizon to acquire beleaguered Yahoo for $4.8 billion
The one thing that kept Yahoo afloat for this long is Jerry Yang’s risky $1 billion bet on Alibaba in 2005…
JPMorgan slashes Apple Watch estimates in half, lowers price target
Analysts at the investment bank slashed their Apple Watch estimates for fiscal 2016…
With watchOS 3, Apple admits their first attempt was all wrong
Apple’s new Watch software, watchOS 3, isn’t just new software, it’s an admission that Apple had it all wrong…
Apple reveals watchOS 3; faster, simpler with breakthrough health features
Today, Apple previewed watchOS 3, featuring significantly improved performance with the ability to launch favorite apps instantly…
Verizon to bid $3 billion for Yahoo’s internet business
Verizon Communications Inc. on Monday planned to submit a second-round bid of about $3 billion for Yahoo Inc.’s core internet business…
‘Game-changing’ study links cellphone radiation to cancer
Findings from a massive, new U.S. federal study suggest that radio-frequency (RF) radiation, the type emitted by cellphones, can cause cancer…
Positive signs abound for Apple Watch
Recent market data and industry developments provide some useful context and information…
Apple hiring lawyer with health privacy expertise, HIPAA experience
Apple is looking to fill a ‘Privacy Counsel’ position with an attorney who has expertise in the health field and HIPAA compliance…
Apple CEO Cook reveals Apple Watch’s ‘holy grail’
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook says the health monitoring market is ready for new technology innovation…
Apple Watch health and fitness labs, inspired by Steve Jobs, still operating overtime
You might have thought that the health & fitness labs Apple created to help develop the Apple Watch…
IBM and Bausch + Lomb’s app for Apple iPhone and iPad will help tens of millions keep their sight
This new mobile solution has real potential to fundamentally change how our practice manages patient information throughout the cataract procedure
New ‘SweatCoin’ iPhone app pays people to get fit
A free smartphone app that will pay people to be physically active launches on Wednesday in Britain…
Apple hires Nest’s former head of technology
Apple has hired famed robotics expert Yoky Matsuoka, one of the co-founders of Google’s X lab and former head of technology at Nest…
First Apple CareKit apps arrive
Apple sees a huge opportunity to connect patients, doctors, and caregivers using mobile technology…
Yahoo for sale as bidders line up; CEO Marissa Mayer is likely toast
Yahoo is for sale, and bidders are lining up to grab their own, ever-shrinking piece of Internet history…
Holding out for a Jobs: Tim Cook still auditioning for position of Apple god
How people use things was Jobs’ lifelong obsession…
How iPhone CareKit apps will revolutionize health care
Apple’s most revelatory launch of the spring isn’t new hardware…
Apple advances health apps with CareKit
Apple today announced CareKit, a new software framework designed to help developers enable people…
Apple announces advancements to ResearchKit
Apple today announced advancements to the open source ResearchKit framework…
Why you’ll wear an Apple Watch to keep your job
With Apple Watch, Cupertino has taken a leadership position in the mass-market for…
Share your fitness data for an Apple Watch – or cash
In one program, workers can buy a $350 Apple Watch for just $25 by meeting exercise goals for two years…
CEO Marissa Mayer drops the ax, shutters about half of Yahoo’s content verticals
Yahoo was shuttering its tech vertical and moving some of its staff, including former New York Times columnist David Pogue…
Tim Cook hints Apple might build a health device
Apple CEO Tim Cook has hinted that the company may one day built a medical device, following the success of the Apple Watch…
AliveCor Apple Watch ultrasonic ECG heart monitoring band planned for 2016 launch
AliveCor, maker of the iPhone-compatible Mobile ECG cardiac monitoring accessory…
Move over HealthKit: Why Apple’s ResearchKit is proving the real hit with doctors
Announced alongside iOS 8, HealthKit is a health and fitness-tracking platform that allows health data gathered by the iPhone or Watch…
Johns Hopkins epileptic seizure-symptom app is latest Apple medical research tool
Soon, Apple iPhones and Appel Watches may be able to recognize when someone’s having an epileptic seizure, and call for help…
Apple announces new ResearchKit studies for autism, epilepsy and melanoma
ResearchKit turns iPhone into a powerful tool for medical research by helping doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately…
