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 ...

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 ...

Disease progression in people with Parkinson's disease can be accurately monitored using sensors, removing some of the ...

Invisible skin sensors 500 times thinner than a human hair will “revolutionise” health monitoring, according to new research.

AI-enabled wearable sensors can significantly reduce nocturnal scratching in patients with mild atopic dermatitis through haptic feedback. The study demonstrated high accuracy, sensitivity, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

People with diabetes who need to track both glucose and ketone levels have long juggled separate devices, pricking their ...

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 ...