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Wearable wellness products are becoming increasingly popular as consumers turn to technology, textiles, jewellery and more to weave vitality boosts into their daily routines

Maternal and fetal health researchers team up with engineers to improve pregnancy outcomes

Pa. — Wearable health monitors can track heart rate, muscle activity, brain signals and other physiological measurements, but many devices are designed to capture only one type of signal at a time. Recording multiple signals simultaneously is more difficult because sensors must maintain reliable contact with the body even through hair, sweat and everyday movement

Researchers led by the University of Texas at Austin have created a soft wearable patch that improved REM sleep in real-world testing without medication or surgery. Known as NEUSLeeP, the device combines gentle ultrasound stimulation with electrodes that track brain activity as it happens. This allows the patch to influence deep areas of the brain…

WASHINGTON — If you open a fitness app first thing in the morning there’s a good chance a number or color is waiting for you before you’ve even gotten out of bed. Green means go. Red means rest. It feels like the device already knows more about your body than you do

Wearable health sensors capable of continuously monitoring changes in the body have become a massive development in health technology in recent years

Google Research published SensorFM on Wednesday, a foundation model for wearable health that predicts cardiovascular risk, depression, anxiety, and 32 other conditions from consumer smartwatch signals — and does it as accurately as ground-truth clinical lab data when powering an AI health agent. That single finding upends an assumption that has organized digital health AI…

For doctors, this raises a difficult question: how can they record something that is not happening during an examination? A standard electrocardiogram (ECG) shows the heart’s activity only at a specific moment, while even longer-term monitoring does not always coincide with less frequent episodes of heart rhythm disorders. As a result, some arrhythmias, particularly short…

Researchers say their sensor can monitor levels of the neurotransmitter in real time, bringing at-home health management ‘closer to reality’