Jonah Comstock

Two years after its first foray into the hardware space, Austrian fitness company Runtastic is launching a new $119.

Smartphone and tablet use by level of experience.

While adding in-person group support sessions to a weight loss program produces the best results, adding just an online behavioral intervention can produce results nearly as good, at a much lower cost.

A new longitudinal study of the microbiome from researchers at Harvard and MIT demonstrates how the ubiquity of a smartphone enables research that would have been much more difficult previously.

Rewards-based systems work to bring people into an online health management program, but they don't do much to encourage sustained engagement, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Internet Medical Research.

Once again, Google has captured the news cycle with the announcement of an ambitious, health-focused project.

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based flexible electronics company MC10 has embarked on its first public partnership with a pharmaceutical company, Belgium-based UCB.

HealthCrowd, text-message-based patient engagement strategy, has completed a pilot with New York Medicaid plan Healthfirst, showing that 86 percent of Healthfirst's Medicaid population was equipped to receive text messages.

Catalyst, an internal iPad app developed by Medtronic.

At a Tech in Policy event sponsored by Washington, D.