When seemingly healthy people receive an alert from a wearable sensor telling them they might have a respiratory virus—based on small changes in their unique heart rate, sleep and activity ...

A high-performance biodegradable pressure sensor has been developed as a key technology for wearable AI health care robotics ...

University of Illinois professors Manuel Enrique Hernandez and Richard Sowers, in collaboration with James R. Brasic, professor at Johns Hopkins and New York University, have published a study ...

In a recent study published in the journal NPJ Digital Medicine, researchers used the large-scale accelerometer dataset from the United Kingdom (U.K.) Biobank consisting of unlabeled data for 700,000 ...

Modern medicine is largely reactive—treating illness only after symptoms emerge. But a new study from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center (The Institute) and McGill ...

Flexible pressure sensors can detect subtle mechanical stimuli, making them suitable for use in wearable sensors for human health monitoring and motion analysis. However, current sensors suffer from ...

Biogen Idec has partnered with Google X, Google's business unit for long-term “moonshot” projects, to study outside factors that might contribute to the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), ...

UCLA Health researchers are seeking to develop a new wearable technology to catch one of the earliest but often overlooked signs of autism and other developmental conditions in infants. Supported by a ...