Consumer

The most recent app from Logicworks, an app development company led by Matthew Nifield, which uses the iPhone's own touch screen to weigh food, was rejected by the Apple App Store.

The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize has extended its deadline and tweaked the requirements for its seven remaining finalists, the group announced last month.

Digital health and wellness is where digital banking was two years ago, according to a new report from Apigee, which surveyed 1,000 smartphone owners 18 years of age or older in the United States.

Redwood City, California-based smartwatch company Pebble has launched a new app for its devices, called Pebble Health.

Pairing contextual texts and activity tracking leads to people moving more, according to a small study of 48 outpatients of an academic CVD prevention center in Baltimore, Maryland that was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

What do dating apps have to do with health and fitness? Last month, that would have been a hard question to answer, but two news bites this week suggest there are few different ways two should get together.

Samsung and Medtronic are once again teaming up, this time to build mobile tools for patients using neuromodulation therapy, a treatment used in a number of chronic conditions including chronic pain, movement disorders, and incontinence.

Some 74 percent of adults said they plan to purchase health and fitness device within the next year.

Savonix, a new startup working on creating a neurocognitive assessment app, has raised $1.

Icebreaker Health, a relatively new telemedicine startup that raised $6.