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Article | 30/04/2013 Jawbone's Up Platform attempts to unify health services
Jawbone on Tuesday announced Up Platform, an API that allows health-focused services, apps, and hardware to connect with the company's Up wristband ac...
Article | 20/03/2013 Jawbone finally releases UP fitness app for Android
Android fans hungering for access to Jawbone's UP fitness-tracking wristband are in luck: On Tuesday the company introduced a free app in Google Play.
Article | 13/11/2012 Jawbone re-releases Up wristband sleep and fitness tracker
Up is no longer down. Jawbone on Tuesday announced a do-over for the Up, the company's $130 fitness- and sleep-tracking wristband accessory. The Up, w...
Article | 17/06/2010 San Francisco approves mobile phone radiation law
Preferring to err on the side of caution, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted 10-1 to require cell phone makers to post notices in...
Article | 18/05/2010 Study: no link between brain tumors and cell phones
The 10-year Interphone study of the health effects of mobile-phone use has found no increased risk of two types of brain tumors. Although some of the ...
Article | 3/09/2009 iPhone app tracks swine flu, other disease outbreaks
A free iPhone app called "Outbreaks Near Me" is designed to help users track and report oubreaks of swine flu and other infectious diseases.
Article | 27/08/2009 Study revives debate over cancer from cell phone use
A group of international scientists today released a report that again raises concerns about cell phone usage and brain tumors, noting that one recent...
Article | 25/08/2009 Mobile software helps student drop 50 pounds
Weight loss programs abound, but they can be complex and expensive and must be followed to a T.
Article | 24/06/2009 Jobs has new liver, 'excellent prognosis,' doctor says
Methodist University Hospital in Memphis confirmed late Tuesday that Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently underwent a liver transplant.
Article | 12/06/2009 With pandemic alert, firms urged to review disaster recovery
With the first flu pandemic in 41 years officially declared today by The World Health Organization (WHO), companies are again being urged to make sure...
Article | 2/06/2009 Microsoft buys software for Amalga e-health platform
Microsoft has purchased software from Merck & Co. to make its Amalga data-aggregation and management software more useful to life sciences and pharmac...
Article | 1/05/2009 Home health-care devices help patients stay out of the hospital
Various technologies enable patients to exchange health information with caregivers. Patients can use a Health system to videoconference with health-c...
Article | 15/04/2009 Privacy rules slow adoption of electronic medical records
In a study that is unlikely to find favor among privacy advocates, researchers from two academic institutions warned that increased privacy protection...
Article | 3/04/2009 Intel, GE partner on home health tech
Intel and General Electric have formed an alliance to market and create home-based health care technologies, in an effort to reduce health-care costs ...
Article | 3/04/2009 Wireless can transform health care, doc says
Wireless devices will create a sea change in the way medicine can be practiced, a top U.S. doctor said Thursday at the CTIA conference in Las Vegas.

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