What You Should Know:
- ŌURA, the creator of the leading smart ring, today announced a significant expansion of its health tracking capabilities with the introduction of two new AI-driven metabolic health features: Meals and Glucose.
- These additions, which integrate meal insights with continuous glucose data from Stelo by Dexcom, aim to provide users with personalized, actionable guidance, marking a major step in ŌURA's evolution towards a comprehensive health
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Epicore Biosystems Secures Additional $6M for Sweat-Sensing Wearable Expansion
What You Should Know:
- Epicore Biosystems, a leader in digital health solutions specializing in advanced sweat-sensing wearables, today announced an additional $6M in Series B funding.
- The funding brings the company's total Series B raise to $32M and includes backing from a new San Francisco-based investor and notable angel investors, alongside continued support from existing investors Alumni Ventures and Joyance Partners.
This follow-on investment builds upon Epicore’s
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DiMe Launches Partnerships to Combat Opioid Relapse Using Wearables
What You Should Know:
- The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), a global non-profit focused on digital medicine, today announced a partnership uniting healthcare providers, universities, technology companies, and research centers.
- The initiative will explore the use of data from consumer wearable devices, like smartwatches and rings, to predict and ultimately prevent relapse among individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD), potentially saving thousands of lives.
- Partners in
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Biolinq Raises $100M to Expand Biowearable Platform for Metabolic Health
What You Should Know:
- Biolinq, a healthcare technology company focused on developing precision multi-analyte biosensors to improve metabolic health raises $100M in Series C financing round led by Alpha Wave Ventures, with participation from several existing investors, including RiverVest Venture Partners, AXA IM Alts, LifeSci Venture Partners, M Ventures, Hikma Ventures, Aphelion Capital, Taisho Pharmaceutical, and Features Capital.
- The company will use the funding to support its
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Samsung Partners With Stanford Medicine for New AI Sleep Apnea Feature
What You Should Know:
- Samsung Electronics and Stanford University today forms a research collaboration with Stanford Medicine aimed at developing health solutions leveraging Samsung’s recently FDA De Novo authorized obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) feature.
- The initiative, announced on World Health Day, underscores the critical role of sleep in overall well-being and marks a significant step towards proactive healthcare through pioneering research.
Advance Sleep Apnea
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Endo Launches Spatial Computing Injection Simulator with Apple Vision Pro for Medical Training
What You Should Know:
- Endo, a pharmaceutical company, is breaking new ground in healthcare education with the launch of its innovative Spatial Computing Injection Simulator.
- The first-of-its-kind initiative leverages the power of spatial computing, also known as "mixed reality," to create a fully immersive learning environment for healthcare providers using Apple Vision Pro.
XIAFLEX® and the Simulator's Purpose
Endo designed this simulator to help hand specialists
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Smart Solutions for Parkinson’s: The Impact of Wearable Tech Integration
The advent of wearable technology has revolutionized healthcare, offering unprecedented opportunities for managing chronic conditions like Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's affects millions worldwide, manifesting in symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, and impaired balance. Traditional treatments primarily focus on managing symptoms through medication and physical therapy, which often requires regular doctor visits and constant adjustments. However, wearable technology presents a transformative
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Google’s Pixel Watch 3 Receives FDA Clearance for Loss of Pulse Detection Feature
What You Should Know:
- Google today announced a major advancement in wearable technology with the FDA clearance of its Loss of Pulse Detection feature for the Pixel Watch 3.
- The feature can detect when a user experiences a loss of pulse, a potentially life-threatening event such as cardiac arrest, and automatically contact emergency services if the user is unresponsive.
- Now, with FDA clearance, Google will begin rolling out Loss of Pulse Detection in the United States
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Epicore Biosystems Raises $26M to Advance Sweat-Sensing Wearables
What You Should Know:
- Epicore Biosystems, an innovator in sweat-sensing wearables, today announced a $26M in Series B funding round led by the Steele Foundation for Hope (SFFH).
- The investment will accelerate the global adoption of Epicore's personalized hydration and cloud analytics platform and support the company's expansion into new health applications, including kidney health, women's health, malnutrition, and environmental toxin exposure.
Sweat-Sensing
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Wearable Devices Can Predict IBD Flare-Ups Weeks in Advance, Mount Sinai Study Finds
What You Should Know:
- A new study from Mount Sinai researchers has revealed that wearable devices, like smartwatches and fitness trackers, can effectively identify, differentiate, and even predict flare-ups in individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
- The research findings, published in the journal Gastroenterology, opens up exciting possibilities for continuous disease monitoring and proactive management of IBD using widely available technology.
IBD, which
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