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BodyMedia introduces the Armband BW at CES, body monitoring for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jan 11th, 2011)

BodyMedia had quite a presence at CES last week, with one of their employees running around town and even jumping out of planes to show off the company's new product, the BodyMedia FIT Armband BW. I stopped by their booth to talk to company founder Ivo Stivoric about the product, and how it ...

Nike talks iPhone, running and its connected devices

by Mike Schramm (Jan 11th, 2011)

Nike was at CES last week to premiere its new Nike+ SportWatch GPS, a sports watch hooked up to GPS via TomTom-based technology, designed to work with the popular Nike+ system. While the idea of the watch is cool (it will track all of your runs, even if not hooked up to the GPS system right away), ...

iHealth, Withings both launch iPhone-connected blood pressure monitors

by Michael Rose (Jan 4th, 2011)

There are lots of solid therapeutic approaches to treating hypertension (high blood pressure), and they range in cost and complexity all the way from free and easy up to expensive and elaborate. While it might cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to treat a heart attack, it's much simpler ...

iPhonECG turns your iPhone 4 into an affordable cardiac event monitor

by Michael Terretta (Jan 3rd, 2011)

Quick -- you're watching House, M.D. with a friend and he suddenly complains of lightheadedness and heart palpitations, then passes out on your couch. Is it a common atrial fibrillation, or is it a third-degree atrioventricular block needing emergency atropine and an electrical pacer? Soon, ...

Road Tested: The Withings Scale, an Apple accessory you can stand on

by Steven Sande (Sep 15th, 2010)

In the Apple accessory ecosystem, there are thousands of different items for the Mac, iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Out of that huge world, I can think of only one accessory that you can actually stand on -- The Withings Connected Body Scale (US$159.00). I've had the pleasure of using one of these ...

Steve Jobs: "Life is fragile."

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 27th, 2010)

Business Insider has published an email reply one of their readers received from Steve Jobs. The reader wrote to Jobs after reading a speech Jobs gave about his experience with liver disease. The BI reader, who lost his young girlfriend to melanoma-induced liver failure, wrote to express gratitude ...

It's World Health Day! Medsy free for 24 hours.

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 7th, 2010)

Today is the 60th annual World Health Day; it's a day of awareness and programs sponsored by the World Health Organization to promote better health across the globe. In honor of the day, and in order to raise awareness about the importance of taking medications on time, the people at Medsy are ...

Steve looked healthier at iPad event

by Mike Schramm (Feb 4th, 2010)

MacDailyNews points out that not many bloggers or journalists covered the issue of Steve's health at last week's Apple event, but I'd argue that it wasn't really a huge story -- the guy is doing his job, and while we definitely want to make sure he's healthy, his well-being is not really for us to ...

Healthy Me: Another TUAW giveaway to help your New Year's resolutions

by Steven Sande (Jan 3rd, 2010)

When you're trying to live a more healthy lifestyle, it takes more than just watching your weight and exercising. Experts agree that you should eat a balanced diet, drink at least eight glasses of water per day, sleep well, and take nutritional supplements. That's the idea behind Healthy Me ...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in your pocket with the CBTReferee app

by David Winograd (Dec 13th, 2009)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy that deals with dysfunctional emotions and feelings in a structured manner usually involving journaling, and reflecting on your journaled thoughts. The idea is to discover incorrect thinking and emotions. It has been found to be ...

Discover new running trails with the WalkJogRun app

by Sang Tang (Dec 2nd, 2009)

There are many apps (like RunKeeper and RunMeter) that track where and how much you run, but not many to help you discover new places to run. Luckily, there's the WalkJogRun app [iTunes link] ($.99US), which gives you the ability to navigate through over 500,000 user-submitted map-based running ...

TUAW Fitness: An Apple a day makes the weight go away

by Tim Wasson (Aug 1st, 2009)

I've struggled with my weight for a long time. In my free-wheeling post-college days I lived with my two best friends, sitting around playing video games, drinking beer and eating Taco Bell. I put on a lot of weight in a short amount of time with that diet and exercise schedule, topping out at 260 ...

CNN: Steve Jobs back at work

by Dave Caolo (Jun 29th, 2009)

As promised, Steve's medical leave ended with the month of June. Last January, Apple announced that CEO Steve Jobs would take a leave of absense to deal with medical issues for approximately six months. Since then, we've learned that Steve had a liver transplant and today Apple confirmed his return. ...

WWDC Demo: iTreadmill

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 23rd, 2009)

iTreadmill (App Store link) is a pedometer app for your iPhone or iPod touch. I spoke with the developer, who demoed the app for us at WWDC. It looks nice, appears to perform well, and features a respectable number of ways to customize and tune the readings. Pedometer apps may not save the world, ...

WSJ: Jobs had liver transplant, on schedule to return to work in June

by Steven Sande (Jun 20th, 2009)

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago in Tennessee, but is still expected to return to work by the end of the month. Jobs, who went on a medical leave from Apple in January, has had continuing medical issues related to a ...