Heart disease, particularly conditions like atrial fibrillation (AFib), is a leading cause of death worldwide, and traditional cardiac monitoring methods often present challenges in patient comfort ...

It was the early days of the pandemic, and the coronavirus's cascading effects on the heart soon began to cause alarm. The use of certain drugs like hydroxychloroquine to treat patients were causing ...

Editor's note: This article has been updated with additional comment from AliveCor. Apple notched a win against AliveCor, a medical device company that makes personal ECGs, in a long-running battle ...

University of Ulster researchers have developed a wireless cardiac monitoring device that allows patients at high risk of cardiac arrest—those who traditionally would be monitored by in-hospital ...

Wearable health devices now track heart health, stress, glucose, fertility, and sleep, turning smart wearables into everyday ...

Health tech has a rocky history. For every story of the Apple Watch saving someone’s life, there’s a Theranos out there ruining it for everyone. Yet the sector marches on. We all want to be healthy ...

Two years after it accused Apple of copying its heart monitoring technology and putting it into millions of smartwatches, a small company called AliveCor may soon notch a fresh legal victory. But if ...

Dozens of ambulances in Mecklenburg County have received major upgrades: new, high-tech heart monitors. “It’s like going from an iPhone 4 to an iPhone 13,” Drew Williams, a crew chief for Mecklenburg ...

EMS medics in East Baton Rouge Parish will soon be equipped with new gadgets expected to significantly improve vital information hospitals receive about patients en route to treatment facilities. The ...

Over the past year, Apple Watches have been credited with detecting heart complications and saving lives on multiple occasions. Now, a doctor from New York University is suing the tech giant over the ...

A research team at Google has developed a new technology that can turn any existing ANC earbuds into cardiac monitors. Called APG, it’s an acoustic sensing system that can be uploaded to existing ...