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Tactio’s apps help teens lose weight and get fit

Tactio’s apps help teens lose weight and get fit

Plenty of companies have tried their hand at health and fitness apps and services over the past year, but app specialists Tactio are tapping into a niche by producing lots of products specially aimed at teens and younger people who want to be healthier. Tactio is already a prominent player in the mobile health arena, with apps like TactioHealth proving popular among those looking for a comprehensive health tracking solution, but what makes the company stand out … Read entire article »

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RunKeeper’s Android app gets an update: Leaderboards, Facebook, in-app messaging

RunKeeper’s Android app gets an update: Leaderboards, Facebook, in-app messaging

One of our favourite workout tracking services, RunKeeper, has given its Android app an update this week, including new leaderboards, Facebook integration and in-app messaging features. The RunKeeper team has made a number of updates and added features to its iOS app recently, but Android fell behind, well until now that is. From today both Android and iOS users can integrate Facebook, meaning they’ll be able to see which contacts and Facebook friends are actively using the … Read entire article »

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BetterFit Text is a super simple health texting service

BetterFit Text is a super simple health texting service

There are all kinds of advanced services being launched at the moment to keep an eye on patients with new or long term health problems, like gadgets or more advanced professional devices. However, BetterFit Technologies is working on a new service called BetterFit Text, which aims to change the relationship beween patients and doctors and make communications much much easier. BetterFit basically opens up a channel of communication between doctors and their patients through text messages. … Read entire article »

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STUDY: More US smartphone owners turn to health and fitness apps

STUDY: More US smartphone owners turn to health and fitness apps

Despite the growing popularity of apps dedicated to medical issues, health and fitness, there are many who still think the mobile health market might just be a flash in the pan and soon we’ll all tire of tracking our steps and blood pressure and calorie intake and workouts each day. How exhausting. However, a new US study about the growing interest in mobile health technology has found that 19% of American smartphone owners have at least … Read entire article »

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Active8rlives: Will food diaries make us fitter and healthier?

Active8rlives: Will food diaries make us fitter and healthier?

In theory losing weight and keeping track of what you’re eating sounds easy, just eat less than the energy you expend, track calories and do everything mindfully. Simple, right? Um no, it’s really not given there’s a multi-million pound dieting industry and so many people try to diet, fail, try again, fail again and so on. Well now Active8rlives (yep, the rogue 8 annoys us too, but let it lie) has launched a new picture-based food … Read entire article »

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Runtastic launches four new fitness apps

Runtastic launches four new fitness apps

Sport and fitness app and online service Runtastic has launched four new apps into its get fit and stay fit ecosystem this week as part of its new “Pump It” collection of fitness tools, in order to really challenge users and get them setting (and breaking) all kinds of physical challenges. The apps aren’t your run-of-the-mill fitness and health tracking offerings, but instead they provide users with a reliable way of sticking to goals and challenges, … Read entire article »

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STUDY: People want practical, user-friendly mobile health apps

STUDY: People want practical, user-friendly mobile health apps

Well no one can deny there are a LOT of health apps around at the moment, from those that’ll help you record your mood, those that’ll track serious medical issues and those that’ll send alerts back to your GP to tell them how you’re doing. However, new research into the mobile health industry has shown that both smartphone and tablet users who are into keep tabs on their health want apps that’ll help them manage … Read entire article »

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MyFitnessPal’s 30 million users can now sync up with other apps and devices

MyFitnessPal’s 30 million users can now sync up with other apps and devices

Popular health and fitness tracking service MyFitnessPal has launched an API this week, which will allow its 30 million users to sync their data up to other apps and their favourite devices. For now MyFitnessPal’s API is private so that the company can handpick the partners that’ll be getting involved. The first few to get involved include Fitbit, Endomondo, Runtastic, Withings and Body Media, some of the top names in the health and fitness tech space. … Read entire article »

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Striiv launches a fitness tracking app, but do we really need another?

Striiv launches a fitness tracking app, but do we really need another?

We first heard about Striiv at CES earlier in the year, when the fitness tracking specialist team launched its ‘pedometer on steroids’ (our label, not theirs) onto the US tech market. Just like similar offerings from Basis, Nike and Fitbit, Striiv’s advanced pedometer allows users to track the steps they’ve taken throughout the day, but also adds in a fun gaming element with its colour touchscreen, that’s focused on earning points, beating your friends and … Read entire article »

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New mobile app and device could help monitor ear infections

New mobile app and device could help monitor ear infections

Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have been working on a way to turn a regular smartphone into an otoscope, a device doctors use to check out what’s going on inside your ears. The team have created an accessory that they call a Remotoscope, which works with an attachment and a dedicated app to allow regular parents to peer inside children’s ears. The accessory puts a scope over your phone’s camera lens and gives it a flash … Read entire article »

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