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Google makes diagnosing yourself online a little more accurate
We’ve all been there, you’ve got a pain in your leg or a weird swollen eye, you put your symptoms into Google and suddenly you’re terrified you’ve got some kind of crazy flesh eating illness and only minutes to live. Well, although that may be a pretty extreme case, Google is on a mission to make self diagnosis online as easy and accurate as possible. In the past if you Googled certain symptoms you’d find a … Read entire article »
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RunKeeper gets social with ‘Healthy’ button
‘Tweet’ and ‘Like’ buttons can be found on pretty much every content site we visit nowadays. Well now, thanks to the fitness-tracking app Runkeeper, the ‘Healthy’ button will now be joining them. The fitness-tracking app launched a Healthy button and bookmarklet on Monday that gives it a social network feel. Users can now add content to their RunKeeper newsfeeds directly from sites that install the Healthy button. Although RunKeeper started out simply tracking users runs, its vision … Read entire article »
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Scottish Government takes new app-roach to drinking problem among women
Ever wondered if those couple of pints in the local each night after work actually made much of a difference to your youthful looks? Well, the Scottish Government has decided to make it possible for us to see just what effects alcohol can have on the ageing process. Titled the “Drinking Time Machine“, the app for the iPhone shows how alcohol can speed up the ageing process with a ‘Fat Booth’ style interface in the hope … Read entire article »
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Philips invests in growing health technology market
Philips has been a big name in consumer electronics for years, but saw a blow to its strategy last year when profits collapsed due to tough rivals and weak markets. But it appears that the electronics giant is leaving TVs and other electronics behind to claim a share of the growing health technology and gadget market. BBC writes that Philips ‘is distancing itself from areas where it has traditionally been strong, such as sound and vision’ … Read entire article »
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Win! A Timex Health Tracker watch to help you keep fit and healthy
A new year usually starts with great intentions of watching your calories, changing to healthier diet and exercising more. Yet for many those resolutions are shelved by the time February comes around as you just didn’t have the right tools to keep you motivated. This is where the Timex Health Tracker comes into the picture. Aimed at women with hectic lifestyles the Timex Health Tracker has a built-in walk sensor that automatically records distance, steps taken … Read entire article »
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CES 2012 – The best health and fitness gadgets so far
We are already a couple of days into CES 2012 and, as we predicted, the connected health sector has delievered some great innovative new gadgets. Here’s a round up of the best stories so far. Video review of Iqua Beat fitness gadget – Here’s a quick video overview of what we think might be one of the biggest fitness gadgets of 2012 STMicroelectronics prototype intelligent suit – Is this the future for athletes and those recovering from … Read entire article »
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BUPA announces brain-health iPhone app, BrainyApp, to help fight dementia
It’s not just physical health that technology can help with. There’s mental health too. Private health company BUPA recently launched its Health Finder iPhone app which enables you to look up various medical conditions as well as check out private health facilities near you and make/check appointments via your iPhone’s calendar. See review here. Now it has announced a new mental health app called appropriately enough BrainyApp. Billed as the world’s first brain health app, the … Read entire article »
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Health gadgets could save the NHS millions
We all know that health gadgets and apps make life easier for both the users and health professionals, but there is another compelling reason for governments and businesses to invest ion gadgets – they could end up saving millions of pounds. At the moment the cash-strapped NHS is desperate top make savings so that it can maintain the high standards it attained (shorter waiting lists etc) during the last government. One route to saving cash might … Read entire article »
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Will the Macaw app be your ultimate mobile health hub?
From sleep managers to diet trackers, more and more people are becoming increasingly interested in monitoring their personal health on a daily basis, using their mobile phones and a range of other fancy gadgets. Last week during the 2011 mHealth Summit, an app called Macaw was introduced, which is set to make waves in the mobile health market as it acts as the ultimate personal health hub for users who want to keep track of every … Read entire article »
Filed under: Apps, Latest News, Mobile Phone Apps
Mobile phones to help people with Parkinson’s Disease
Connected Health systems might soon be playing a major role in helping people with Parkinson’s Disease. An academic at the University of Portsmouth, hopes to develop two mobile phone Apps to enable the thousands of people with Parkinson’s improve their speech and allow them to be better understood by family, friends and healthcare workers. Dr Eglin, of the university’s Department of Creative Technologies, recently received a £35,000 innovation grant from leading research charity Parkinson’s UK to develop the … Read entire article »
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