Jonah Comstock

Savonix, a new startup working on creating a neurocognitive assessment app, has raised $1.

Icebreaker Health, a relatively new telemedicine startup that raised $6.

Google Life Sciences has finally gotten its new name as an independent company under the aegis of Alphabet: Verily.

According to a new report from Swedish analyst firm Berg Insight, 4.

Weight Watchers has unveiled a new program called Beyond the Scale, which includes a new app called FitBreak.

French companion app company Voluntis has partnered with AstraZeneca to develop an app for women undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer.

The new Hacking Medicine Institute, a nonprofit that spun out of MIT this past summer, is launching the latest initiative to produce reviews of mobile health apps and digital health tools.

San Diego-based GreatCall, which offers digital health services and devices to seniors, has acquired the assets of aging in place startup Lively for an undisclosed amount.

LifeMap Solutions, the San Jose-California startup behind the ResearchKit app Asthma Health, has launched its second app, COPD Navigator, for free in the app store.

What if wearables like Fitbits and the Apple Watch represent the infancy of on-body health sensors, something we'll one day look back on the way we now look at the clunky, boxy mobile phones of the 1980s? A number of researchers are working on ultrathin, flexible sensors that could be applied to the skin like smart tattoos, or even applied to the surface of organs inside the body to continually monitor vital signs or to deliver time-released drugs.