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Software that enables Apple Watch-based tracking of Parkinson’s disease symptoms has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration, a move that could open doors for its maker as it …
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You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get this newsletter delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and …
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Your smartwatch can ping you about an irregular heartbeat. Your phone can assess your fall risk. And now, research suggests temperature trends picked up by wearables can tell you if …
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If you could pitch any idea to transform health care, what would you pitch? Four health care leaders took the stage at the STAT Health Tech Summit in San Francisco …
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SAN FRANCISCO — Karen DeSalvo’s latest challenge came in the nanometer-sized envelope of a virus: monkeypox. Since becoming Google’s first chief health officer in 2019, DeSalvo has overseen many disparate …
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Patient data might be the biggest business you’ve never heard of. As a STAT investigation published Monday revealed, data brokers are quietly trafficking in Americans’ health information — often without …
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SAN FRANCISCO — Something as simple as getting a Covid-19 test can be complicated for Joshua Miele, a principal accessibility researcher at Amazon. Miele is blind. When he got his …
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Google is teaming up with researchers to investigate how the mobile devices glued to our hands may be affecting our minds. Conducted with researchers from the University of Oregon, the …
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