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Forty mph winds pelted cold rain against the runners as they approached the Boston Marathon’s infamous Heartbreak Hill.

San Francisco-based PeerWell has added an augmented reality feature to its app, which helps post-surgical patients manage their recovery.

Stockholm, Sweden-based respiratory monitor maker NuvoAir (formerly Pond Healthcare Innovation) has unveiled the newest version of its home-use spirometer.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $5.

Personal genomics company Helix announced two new partnerships this week, both of which take the company — which has focused on ancestry and lifestyle applications in the past — strongly into the clinical realm.

When stress levels are high, turning to an app for guided meditation might not be all that effective, according to a recent small study published in BMC Psychology.

Things aren't getting any better for Outcome Health, the digital health media company that recently settled a three-month legal battle over claims that the company misled its investors and defrauded its customers.

Apple’s heart rate monitoring technology has come under fire after Anne Arbor, Michigan-based Omni MedSci filed a lawsuit against the tech giant for patent infringement.

Correction: The original version of this article misstated the symptom checker's original launch date.

Last year Katherine Kaiser graduated from Stanford University, incidentally meaning she also “graduated” from the Stanford health system.