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By Brian Dolan | 10:56 am | August 19, 2015
Entrada's mobile app Every year Inc.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:11 am | August 19, 2015
Owlet Baby Care, a tech startup developing smart socks for monitoring infants' vital signs, raised $6 million in venture funding and another $1 million in the form of an NIH Grant.
By Jonah Comstock | 07:54 am | August 19, 2015
Adherium Limited, a New Zealand company working on a smart inhaler, has raised $25.
By Aditi Pai | 04:30 am | August 19, 2015
Boulder, Colorado-based Kindara, which offers fertility tracking tools, has raised $5.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:42 am | August 18, 2015
Correction: A previous version of this story misreported the percentage of people who said telehealth was worse than an inperson visit.
By Brian Dolan | 09:03 am | August 18, 2015
Houston, Texas-based Baylor Teen Health Clinic recently tapped Saviance Healthcare to develop an app, called Hi52hlth ("high five to health"), that is intended to help local teens find local clinics and practitioners as well as to more easily get educational information about sexually transmitted infections, birth control, and parenting.
By Jonah Comstock | 08:30 am | August 18, 2015
In a rare interview with Outside Magazine, Jay Blahnik, Apple's director of fitness for health technologies, spoke about the Apple Watch's impact on users' fitness since it launched, the importance of the Stand ring, and how integration with third-party apps will change the game.
By Aditi Pai | 06:00 am | August 18, 2015
Misfit, maker of the Shine and Flash activity trackers, has partnered with swimwear manufacturer Speedo and announced a new activity tracking device focused on monitoring swimming, called Speedo Shine.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:09 am | August 17, 2015
Apps can help increase the amount of leisure time that users spend exercising as well as positively impacting their BMI, according to a new study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.