University of Washington researchers built a smartphone app that tracks fetal heart rate as accurately as clinic tools using only the phone's speaker and mic, though it's not ready for release yet.

Heart rate is an important sign of fetal health, yet few technologies exist to easily and inexpensively track fetal heart rates outside of doctors' offices. This can create risks for pregnancies in ...

Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading global cause of mortality, claiming nearly 18 million lives each year. Early detection and continuous monitoring of blood pressure, vascular resistance, and ...

The Food and Drug Administration awarded approval to CardioMEMS Hero, a new version of the device that patients use to take daily pulmonary artery pressure readings. Abbott has made Hero smaller and ...

Smart biomedical devices are transforming modern health care, using skin-mounted sensors to capture in-depth health information directly from the body. As clinicians increasingly use biosensing ...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans die from heart disease–the leading cause of death in the country. In some ...

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While some wearables may be tailor made for trial use, they face challenges translating to real-world patient applications outside of a stringent trial setting, and vice versa. This creates a unique ...

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