Mental health and physical health are often intertwined, but Apple’s Health app features have largely focused on the physical aspect in previous years. With watchOS 10, however, that is about to change with the Mindfulness app. Related Reading: The app will allow you to not only log how you feel each day, but also look […]
Read MoreIn 2022, health care startup Maven became the first unicorn in the femtech sector after raising more than $250 million from a star-studded roster of investors including Oprah Winfrey, Natalie Portman, and Reese Witherspoon. The company provides virtual clinic services for women and families across a range of areas such as fertility, maternity and newborn […]
Read MoreApple unveiled the iPadOS 17 at WWDC today and will push the beta out to developers immediately, pending a public beta next month, and a Fall release to the masses. The new iPadOS 17 gains the customizable Lock Screen, which premiered last year with iOS 16, giving users the option to customize the wallpaper, choose […]
Read MoreiOS has a Battery Health feature that’s missing as a native feature on Android to show the device battery’s maximum remaining capacity. However, Android 14 could bring that to all Android devices when its final version is released. Former XDA-Developers‘ EIC Mishaal Rahman has revealed that Google added some new BatteryManager APIs to Android 14 […]
Read MoreAndroid smartphones don’t have an iPhone-like Battery Health feature that displays a battery’s maximum remaining capacity compared to the original capacity. Samsung shows battery health in the Samsung Members app, but it doesn’t display an accurate percentage of remaining capacity as iPhones do. However, with Android 14, Google has added new capabilities that could bring […]
Read MoreMobvoi announced the TicWatch 5 Pro, which is the first wearable from this year’s flagship lineup. The new device succeeds the TicWatch 3 Pro and offers improvements in many aspects. However, Mobvoi’s main focus remains health tracking to compete with the very best in the industry. That’s why the company launched its new and improved […]
Read MoreApple is launching a new ad campaign today featuring the company’s emphasis on health data privacy, headlined by a humorous new commercial voiced by actress and comedian Jane Lynch. [embedded content] The new campaign centers around the fact that with people knowingly and unknowingly sharing more and more about themselves online, protection of private health […]
Read MoreMenopause may be entering public consciousness (although, bewilderingly, it’s not a mandatory part of the curriculum in 41 percent of UK university medical schools), but many other areas of women’s health suffer from an information gap for both clinicians and patients. According to the Women’s Health Strategy findings, only 8 percent of respondents felt that they […]
Read MoreThe Vice President and head of the Digital Health Team at Samsung said today that the Samsung Health platform reached 64 million monthly active users worldwide. The Galaxy Watch series is helping that number grow year by year, and according to the VP, the Galaxy Watch’s sleep feature is among the most popular components of […]
Read MoreThe Galaxy Watch 5 series is getting a new firmware update. Or, to be precise, the LTE variants are now getting the same update the Bluetooth-only Watch 5 series received about a month ago. The update carries firmware version R9x5FXXU1AWDA. And the most significant addition mentioned in the changelog is the skin temperature-based cycle tracking […]
Read MoreIt’s been fifteen months since Samsung Health became available for Galaxy tablets for the first time. Or, more specifically, it’s been that long since Samsung Health debuted on the Galaxy Tab S8 series. Unfortunately, the company has yet to expand availability to older tablets, and I’m afraid it may never do so. Samsung will likely […]
Read MoreThe Wallet and Health apps are rumored to be getting updates in iOS 17, and leaker @analyst941 today shared some mockups that allegedly represent the design changes that we can expect to see. In the Wallet app mockup, there’s a navigation bar at the bottom that separates the different functions available in the app. Cards, […]
Read MoreA few days ago, Samsung rolled out a software update to the Galaxy Watch 5 and the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro which enabled these smartwatches to track the menstrual cycle of a user using skin temperature sensors built into these wearables. Now, it looks like the company wants to leverage these temperature sensors even further […]
Read MoreAmazon is discontinuing its line of “Halo” health and fitness bands, Amazon announced today (via Bloomberg). The first Halo band was introduced in August 2020, and it was positioned as a low-cost competitor to the Apple Watch. The Halo wristband had no watch face, instead offering a sensor wrist worn sensor module with an accelerometer, […]
Read MoreThe iOS 17 update that Apple plans to show off in June will include several new health-related features, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. There will be a feature for tracking mood, plus Apple plans to bring the Health app to the iPad for the first time. Apple has long had a Health app, but it […]
Read MoreSamsung has announced the launch of the Samsung Health Stack (version 1.0) at the world’s largest healthcare technology exhibition, the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition 2023. This five-day exhibition is being held in Chicago, USA, from April 17 to April 21. This event is hosted by HMISS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), and […]
Read MoreThe Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Fit lineups of wearables from Samsung are great at fitness tracking. However, Samsung is also developing another lineup of products that are said to offer even better health tracking accuracy. The South Korean firm is working on a smart ring that could be launched as the Galaxy Ring. Galaxy Ring […]
Read MoreOur bodies consist of about 30 trillion human cells, but they also host about 39 trillion microbial cells. These teeming communities of bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi in our guts, in our mouths, on our skin, and elsewhere—collectively called the human microbiome—don’t only consist of freeloaders and lurking pathogens. Instead, as scientists increasingly appreciate, these […]
Read MoreWithings ne vend plus seulement des balances, mais des « stations de santé » bourrées de capteurs… dont la règlementation empêche le fonctionnement. Voilà qui est fâcheux, alors que l’entreprise française veut étendre et approfondir ses capacités d’analyse des données pour mieux vous guider « au jour le jour pour créer une routine saine et durable » avec le […]
Read MoreI bought my first Samsung smartwatch a little over two weeks ago, and I’m now completely sold on the idea. I don’t see myself not wearing a smartwatch anytime soon, and I must admit it is ironic, given that I never thought I’d find these wearables very useful. Cool, maybe, but not very practical or […]
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