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A simple, wearable temperature sensor was able to detect dangerous complications in hospitalized cancer patients hours earlier than routine monitoring, a team from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center found. The device, which takes readings every two minutes and wirelessly transmits them to the cloud, was able to quickly detect adverse events that affect […]
Wearable fitness trackers and step counters help people who are overweight/obese and/or who have weight-related health conditions to shed the pounds, finds a pooled data analysis of the existing evidence, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. More than 1.9 billion adults around the world are overweight (BMI of at least 25) and […]
A T-shirt that tells you your heart is in trouble, an ECG by phone uses your fingertips and the two-minute warning necklace… some of the wearable gadgets that could save your life New developments mean wearable technological devices could save your life Apple’s latest smart watch can provide advance warning of impending strokes The devices […]
Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine today presented preliminary results of the Apple Heart Study, an unprecedented virtual study with over 400,000 enrolled participants. The researchers reported that wearable technology can safely identify heart rate irregularities that subsequent testing confirmed to be atrial fibrillation, a leading cause of stroke and hospitalization in the […]
Wearable devices are increasingly bought to track and measure health and sports performance: from the number of steps walked each day to a person’s metabolic efficiency, from the quality of brain function to the quantity of oxygen inhaled while asleep. But the truth is we know very little about how well these sensors and machines […]