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New York City-based Cohero Health has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its mobile connected spirometer.

Health data platform company BaseHealth raised $3.

A new survey of more than 1,500 teenagers in the US by the Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University shows that a majority of teenagers go online to look for health information, though considerably fewer use digital health tools or wearables.

Fitbit Surge San Francisco-based Fitbit disclosed in an amended SEC filing that it plans to price its shares between $14 to $16 and raise up to $358 million in its imminent IPO.

Results from smartphone-based Snellen charts, which are eye charts used to measure visual acuity, are not consistent with results from standard Snellen visual acuity chart tests, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Melbourne.

As expected Australia-based medical device company dorsaVi has received a new FDA 510(k) that expands the use case for the suite of wearable sensors, called ViMove, to allow providers to use them for tracking additional static postures like a natural standing posture and various sitting postures.

New York City-based mobile medical record system CareDox, formerly known as MotherKnows, raised $900,000, according to an SEC filing.

There's been a cluster of important telemedicine news in the past few days: the AMA is developing ethical guidelines for remote visits, a majority of states now have telemedicine parity laws in place, and details about Teladoc's business came to light through an SEC filing related to its hoped-for IPO.

In late April news broke that remote visits company Teladoc had taken the first steps toward filing for an IPO, but the initial filing was private.

Pear Sports, the Irvine, California-based activity tracking and audio coaching company, has raised an additional $821,000 according to an SEC filing, the beginning of a hoped-for $3 million round.