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Waltham, Massachusetts-based EarlySense, which makes a passive and contactless bedside monitor that continuously measures respiration rate, heart rate and motion, has received a new FDA clearance for a sensor designed to work with not a bed, but a chair.

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Wheaties might be the only cereal where the box is more famous than the food inside.

The mobile health market will grow eightfold over the course of the next decade, from $5.

Apple periodically updates its app store with lists of apps for particular groups of people.

Eighty percent of smartphone users are interested in using their smartphones to interact with health care providers, according to a FICO survey of 2,239 adult smartphone users from the UK, Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, and the United States.

Microsoft's rumored smartwatch is said to look like a thinner Nike+ FuelBand Microsoft plans to release its own smartwatch with 11 sensors as soon as October, according to tech news site Tom's Hardware.

Jonathan Jagoda presented the compact at ATA 2014 in Baltimore in May.

MyNetDiary's popular food tracking app When it comes to weight loss, a simple food tracking application like MyNetDiary or MyFitnessPal might be a much better investment than $100 Fitbit or Jawbone device, at least according to newly released data from the Activity Exchange, a startup that aggregates health tracking data for payers, employers, and providers.

San Francisco-based patient education tool BetterDoctor raised $10 million, according to an SEC filing.