Consumer

Redwood City, California-based smartwatch company Pebble has launched a new app for its devices, called Pebble Health.

Pairing contextual texts and activity tracking leads to people moving more, according to a small study of 48 outpatients of an academic CVD prevention center in Baltimore, Maryland that was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

What do dating apps have to do with health and fitness? Last month, that would have been a hard question to answer, but two news bites this week suggest there are few different ways two should get together.

Samsung and Medtronic are once again teaming up, this time to build mobile tools for patients using neuromodulation therapy, a treatment used in a number of chronic conditions including chronic pain, movement disorders, and incontinence.

Some 74 percent of adults said they plan to purchase health and fitness device within the next year.

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

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

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

Less than a year after Under Armour and HTC announced a partnership to create digital health products for athletes, a report has surfaced that the companies plan to launch a smart scale, according to AndroidHeadlines.

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.