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Oura and Dexcom join forces to transform metabolic health

Longevity Technology - 21-Nov-2024

Integrated glucose monitoring and wearable insights offer a personalized approach to health tracking

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Galaxy Ring: A smart ring by Samsung designed for fitness tracking

BBC - 10-Jul-2024

While promising, concerns about data privacy have been raised

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Free AI coach on your wrist: Longr's bleo wristband tracks health for longevity

Longevity Technology - 18-Apr-2024

Longevity AI app offers personalized guidance based on exercise, diet, and sleep data

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Ultrahuman secures funding to expand its health monitoring platform

Longevity Technology - 20-Mar-2024

Company aims to revolutionize preventative healthcare using health tracking system

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John Lewis opens in-store clinics with randox health for wellness checks

The Guardian - 24-Nov-2023

The first clinic opens in December in High Wycombe, with more planned

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Google researchers develop new headphones to measure heart rate

The Verge - 29-Oct-2023

Research could pave the way for more affordable heart rate monitoring devices

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SiPhox Health raised $27m to advance at-home medical tests

TechCrunch - 19-Jul-2023

Lab-grade kit that measures 17 biomarkers of health & fitness with a finger-prick blood sample

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Phil Newman reviews BrainKey's brain scan analysis service

Longevity Technology - 16-Dec-2022

Report provides analysis on different parts of the brain, including lesions associated with Alzheimer’s disease

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Forget your smartwatch! Chip on skin tracks health with AI-based data analysis

The University of Chicago - 13-Aug-2022

Unlike a typical computer, Neuromorphic Chip mimics a human brain

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Not just BMI, watch out for belly fat to deem yourself healthy

BBC - 08-Apr-2022

Waist-to-height ratio could identify people at higher health risks

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Battery-free, personalized wearables to track your health status

Medgadget - 12-Oct-2021

Device made to fit perfectly, facilitating continuous monitoring of physiological parameters

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Wearable, non-invasive skin patch for real-time health monitoring

NEO.LIFE - 30-Sep-2021

Tracks both physical and biochemical parameters, aiming for early disease detection & prevention

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Smart toilets could provide effortless monitoring of a range of biomarkers, not just gut health

Guardian - 23-Sep-2021

Coprata and Toi Labs among companies looking to bring products to market in the next couple of years

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Humanity Inc app launches initially in UK - determines your rate of ageing

TechCrunch - 04-Aug-2021

Produces personalised tips by comparing phone/wearables data with UK Biobank

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Pulse oximeters can give false readings in people with dark skin tone

Independent - 31-Jul-2021

NHS suggests to take multiple readings to detect the drop in oxygen levels

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Wearable medical devices can monitor health all day using finger sweat

New Scientist - 13-Jul-2021

Self-powered sensors with biofuel cells harvest energy from sweat even while you sleep

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New microchip nanosensor tracks stress levels from your fingertip

Medgadget - 08-Jul-2021

Using a drop of blood, this device measures cortisol accurately within minutes

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Breathable, washable, and water proof E-textiles for Health monitoring

Medgadget - 10-Jun-2021

Low-cost manufacturing of reliable, battery-free, wireless e-textiles

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Biocompatible implants from health monitoring to payments

Sifted - 02-Jun-2021

In future: no keys, no wallet, just an implant under the skin

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At-home NAD test helps you pick the right dose of supplement

Longevity Technology - 16-Apr-2021

Jinfiniti's intracellular test measures NAD levels at home with a simple filter-paper kit

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Google Nest 2 monitors sleep activity from your bedside

BBC - 17-Mar-2021

Radar sensor scans movement to generate personalized sleep reports - controversies raise privacy fears

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Tracking sleep quality with tech brings more harm than good

Science Focus - 22-Feb-2021

Obsession to reach target sleep with sleep trackers can harm your productivity and mental health

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Wearable skin patch to track your health and fitness

Independent - 15-Feb-2021

Noninvasive sensor on skin continuously monitors several vitals all at once

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Sanguina's mobile app AnemoCheck can help detect anaemia

Fast Company - 22-Dec-2020

A fingernail picture can help decide if you need a blood test for anaemia

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Humanity health app to track and slow down your ageing process

TechCrunch - 20-Aug-2020

App that monitors both digital and biomedical markers, sets for launch in 2021

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New app helps identify biological age and methods to slow it down

Fortune - 17-Aug-2020

Apps such as Young. ai will play a key role in helping understand and reversing aging processes

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A single test that can measure your longevity status

Longevity Technology - 17-Aug-2020

Insights can tell what you should and shouldn't do to improve your longevity status

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Smartphones may be the next big thing in digital health

Medical Futurist - 16-Jun-2020

In built sensors can take cues to diagnose diseases or even simply monitor your health

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Longevity InTime plans to track 400 biomarkers and environmental factors

Longevity Technology - 26-May-2020

Using AI to automatically read data from research paper databases and assess users for 20 diseases

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Sweat sensing smart patches - the next wearable self monitoring device

Digital Trends - 14-Apr-2020

Additional tracking for better quantified self practices

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Smart toilet can detect health conditions through AI camera

Independent - 07-Apr-2020

Promising tech for personalized health monitoring via analysis of excreta

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Biomarkers and techniques in biohacking for longevity

Longevity Technology - 18-Feb-2020

Gray states biohacking is much beyond techniques and tests, rather more simple

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Cooling trend of human body temperature

New Scientist - 10-Jan-2020

Every decade since 1860, American body temperature has declined by 0.03°C

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LEAF interview Greg Potter on tracking your health

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 17-Dec-2019

If you are interested in your health, then don’t develop an unhealthy obsession about your health.

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Importance of the urine analysis is leading to the "smart toilet" development

Medical News Bulletin - 21-Nov-2019

Technologies are good for diagnosing the symptoms, not for providing the information of the cause

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A bit of saliva can reveal your biological age and rate of ageing

Clinical OMICs - 04-Nov-2019

Individuals age at different rates, therefore chronological age cannot say much

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Sophie Yeo tries out an Atmotube on the streets of Newcastle

DeSmog UK - 01-Oct-2019

Monitors VOCs and PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 particles - and warns you when air quality drops

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Guidelines on lipid management to prevent heart disease

Science Daily - 31-Aug-2019

Keep LDL levels to the minimum with cholesterol lowering therapy & healthy lifestyle

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Biohackers day routine

GQ - 27-Aug-2019

Biohacker has a strict routine, which is defined by minutes and has no day-offs or alterations

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Transdermal optical imaging using smartphones to measure blood pressure

University of Toronto - 06-Aug-2019

Facial video of 2-minutes could measure blood pressure due to translucent skin

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CoppaFeel! campaign encourages people to check their breasts regularly

Huffington Post - 23-Jul-2019

"Grab on to life” to get to know your body

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Monitoring moles with whole-body photography

Guardian - 16-Jun-2019

Bit of a plug for the Mole Clinic, London, which coincidentally offers a private screening service

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Visual inspection alone is not reliable enough to catch melanomas

Independent - 06-Dec-2018

Even specialist dermatologists can miss melanomas without a dermoscope

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More Belly Fat Means More Cognitive Impairment

Trinity College Dublin - 01-Aug-2018

People with overweight seem to underperform in cognitive tests compared with normal weight people

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Are you fat on the inside?

BBC - 03-May-2018

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EyeQue Personal Vision Tracker Review

Medgadget - 01-May-2018

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Tooth-mounted sensors track your diet and health

Digital Trends - 27-Mar-2018

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App Aims To Put Your Lifespan In Your Hands

Forbes - 11-Mar-2018

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Electronic skin displays heartbeat on your hand

Engadget - 18-Feb-2018

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Microbiome analysis: some gut bacteria reduces inflammation

Guardian - 09-Dec-2017

Village peasant microbiome has low risk for atherosclerosis, obesity, diabetes and colitis

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Wearable sensor combines ECG and optical heart rate monitoring

MobiHealthNews - 29-Nov-2017

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How a graphene tattoo could monitor your health

BBC - 25-Oct-2017

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Biosensors as a Tattooed Interface

Digital Journal - 01-Oct-2017

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Smartphone-connected ECG detects undiagnosed Atrial Fibrillation

MobiHealthNews - 06-Sep-2017

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Atlas Biomed Launches Personalised Health Testing for UK Consumers

Business Wire - 31-Jul-2017

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Sleep trackers can prompt sleep problems

Medical Xpress - 28-Feb-2017

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Wearable sensors can tell when you are getting sick

Stanford University - 12-Jan-2017

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What Comes After The #Wearable Health Revolution?

Medical Futurist - 05-Mar-2016

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Smart wristband continuously measures biomarkers & electrolytes

iMedicalApps - 19-Feb-2016

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10 Medical Wearables To Improve Your Life In 2016

WT VOX - 30-Jan-2016

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World’s Most Connected Human (VIDEO)

Vocativ - 28-Jan-2016

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Are fitbands the future of genetic research?

BBC - 28-Jan-2016

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Video: Health Wearables At CES 2016

IB Times - 08-Jan-2016

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Remote monitoring battles diabetes and heart disease

mHealth Intelligence - 18-Sep-2015

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Wize Mirror to monitor your health

New Scientist - 27-Jul-2015

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Wireless under the skin biosensor chip

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) - 27-May-2015

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Watson Health to diagnose health data from smartphones and fitness trackers

BBC - 14-Apr-2015

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Apple ResearchKit collects data for medical studies

CNET - 09-Mar-2015

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Scanaflo Home Urine Testing

TechCrunch - 18-Feb-2015

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NHS plans ‘kitemark’ for health apps

BBC - 13-Nov-2014

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Google is developing cancer and heart attack detector

BBC - 28-Oct-2014

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Tracking for Health

Pew Research Center - 28-Jan-2013

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