A new app is giving heart patients an emergency room in the palm of their hands. The AliveCor app acts as a “clinical grade” on-the-go EKG monitor, and a there’s a new international study to prove its ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This makes regular management and treatment of heart disease ...

An artist's impression of the RMIT ECG device, showing the various layers including a dressing, Bluetooth module and dry electrodes. A new compact, lightweight, gel-free and waterproof ...

IRhythm Technologies has found that its continuous ECG monitoring chest patch was not only able to improve the diagnosis of atrial fibrillation but also helped lower the numbers of emergency room ...

If one were to look at the companies at the intersection of medical devices and consumer-driven health, AliveCor would immediately jump out. The Mountain View, CA-based company has developed ...

The Skeptical Cardiologist received an email last week from a patient with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (Afib) saying she was having an episode, documented on her Apple Watch and Kardia device, but ...

This weekend, Stanford Medicine researchers presented the long-awaited results of the Apple Heart Study, which explored the performance of the Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor and an accompanying ...

Compared with regular checks in primary care, continuous ECG monitoring revealed more asymptomatic older people with hypertension as having atrial fibrillation (Afib), the SCREEN-AF trial showed. The ...