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Medical technology firm SoundHealth has closed an oversubscribed Series A round led by Shangbay Capital, bringing its total venture funding to $12.25M.Flagship FDA-cleared wearable device, Sonu, has delivered over 500,000 acoustic resonance treatment sessions for patients ages 12+, becoming a leading non-drug alternative to corticosteroid nasal sprays for allergic and non-allergic rhinitis.Leverages smartphone facial scanning algorithms to construct custom digital sinus
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UC San Diego Engineers Develop Battery-Free Wearable Patch for Real-Time Parkinson’s Dosing
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Engineers and neuroscientists at UC San Diego have developed a soft, sweat-powered fingertip patch that continuously monitors levodopa levels in patients with Parkinson’s disease without requiring external batteries or blood draws.Features a specially engineered absorbent gel packed with salts and benign solvents that passively draws sweat from the fingertip's dense network of sweat glands via osmosis.Embedded enzymes react with levodopa in sweat to generate both the
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Withings Medical Launches AI-Backed Clinical Service for Continuous Chronic Disease Management
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Connected health pioneer Withings has announced the launch of Withings Medical, a new clinical care delivery branch marking the company's evolution from passive biometric tracking to direct care provision.The service launches first for the U.S. Medicare-eligible population as a participant in CMS’s new ACCESS Model (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions), an outcomes-aligned chronic care initiative launched nationally on July 5, 2026.Operating through
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Wearable Tech Startup The90 Launches $299 UV-Tracking Smart Jewelry
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Preventative skin health wearable pioneer The90 has formally launched out of stealth with The90™ Gem, a high-end smart jewelry pendant and companion app designed to track personal UV exposure.The device targets a massive market gap in healthy skin aging: up to 90% of visible skin damage, wrinkles, and fine lines are caused by cumulative, everyday ultraviolet light exposure rather than chronological aging.Unlike generic, location-based smartphone weather apps, the wearable
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Dr. Eric Rosenberg Completes First Cataract Surgery Using Apple Vision Pro and ScopeXR
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Dr. Eric Rosenberg of SightMD became the first surgeon to perform a cataract surgery using the Apple Vision Pro in October 2025.The procedure utilized ScopeXR, a custom-built mixed reality surgical platform that streams live feeds from 3D digital microscopes directly into the headset.Dr. Rosenberg has since used the device to assist in hundreds of additional cases, demonstrating the hardware's viability for routine surgical use.The system enables real-time remote
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ŌURA Acquires Galen AI to Pioneer Unified Health Companion, Merging Clinical Records with Continuous Biometrics
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ŌURA has officially acquired Galen AI, a startup founded by Stanford graduates that specializes in unifying fragmented health data from over ten thousand healthcare systems. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition allows Oura to integrate medical records, lab results, and medications directly with the continuous biometric data captured by the Oura Ring.Galen AI’s founders and their specialized AI infrastructure will join the Oura team
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Rune Labs Launches StrivePD Guardian, an AI Companion for Parkinson’s Disease Powered by Claude
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The Launch: Precision neurology company Rune Labs has launched StrivePD Guardian, a personalized AI companion designed to provide continuous, real-time support for people living with Parkinson’s disease.Safety and Availability: The platform was built with clinical oversight, utilizing cautious language and built-in guardrails to urge patients to contact a clinician when high-risk symptoms arise. It is available now via the App Store for patients, with partner
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Samsung Galaxy Watch8 Series Launches Blood Pressure Tracking in the U.S.
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The Launch: Starting today, select Galaxy users in the U.S. can monitor systolic and diastolic blood pressure directly from their Galaxy Watch8 or Galaxy Watch8 Classic via the Samsung Health Monitor App.The Technology: The watch uses internal heart rate monitoring sensors to estimate blood pressure changes against calibrated values. Later this year, Samsung plans to introduce passive monitoring to track long-term trends automatically.
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Mayo Clinic Study Uses Wearables and Machine Learning to Predict COPD Rehab Participation
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The Research: A new study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health by researchers at the Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery reveals that wearable data may help predict patient engagement in remote COPD rehabilitationThe Core Problem: Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) frequently drop out of remote, 12-week pulmonary rehabilitation programs. Because COPD severely impacts sleep, patients often lack the energy to complete
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HIMSS26: Verily and Samsung Partner to Integrate Galaxy Watch 8 into Precision Health Platform
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The Partnership: Verily Life Sciences and Samsung Electronics America are collaborating to integrate the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 directly into Verily’s precision health platform, Pre.The Clinical Goal: The joint solution is designed to accelerate research for life sciences and government customers by allowing them to run real-world studies using continuous, consumer-grade wearable data.The Hardware: The Galaxy Watch 8 acts as a robust clinical tool, bringing FDA-cleared
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