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Feasibility of unattended home sleep apnea testing in a cognitively impaired clinic population
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Ahead of Print.
Source: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine : JCSM - October 23, 2020 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: David R. ColelliSandra E. BlackMario MasellisBenjamin LamAndrew S.P. LimMark I. Boulos1L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Hurvitz Brain Source Type: research

‘We’re Not As Healthy As We Should Be.’ Fitbit CEO James Park Discusses New AFib Detection Partnership With Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer
“We’re not as healthy as we should be.” That’s what Fitbit CEO and co-founder James Park said at Thursday’s TIME 100 Health Summit, where MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle interviewed him about the company’s future in the health care space, the impact of wearables and just how active Fitbit’s 30 million active users really are. Ruhle talked with Park about Fitbit’s position as one of the first major wearables company to have gone public, one that led the charge in terms of mass market adoption but has lost ground to competitors offering more advanced wearable devices, as well as ...
Source: TIME: Health - October 17, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Patrick Lucas Austin Tags: Uncategorized fitness HealthSummit19 technology Source Type: news

Guess What Google ’s Verily is Up to Now
Verily Life Sciences has formed yet another joint venture with a medtech company. This time Verily, once known as Google’s life sciences division, is teaming up with sleep-health specialist ResMed to tackle sleep apnea. The collaboration with ResMed expands the Mountain View, CA-based company’s presence into yet another healthcare segment. ResMed executives declined to discuss specific details about the joint venture, noting it was still subject to regulatory approvals. However, ResMed CMO Carlos Nunez said the joint venture will operate as a completely separate entity from ResMed and Verily. Nunez noted ResMed had ext...
Source: MDDI - July 11, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Omar Ford Tags: Business Digital Health Source Type: news

Guess What Alphabet ’s Verily is Up to Now
Verily Life Sciences has formed yet another joint venture with a medtech company. This time Verily, once known as Google’s life sciences division, is teaming up with sleep-health specialist ResMed to tackle sleep apnea. The collaboration with ResMed expands the Mountain View, CA-based company’s presence into yet another healthcare segment. ResMed executives declined to discuss specific details about the joint venture, noting it was still subject to regulatory approvals. However, ResMed CMO Carlos Nunez said the joint venture will operate as a completely separate entity from ResMed and Verily. Nunez noted ResMed had ext...
Source: MDDI - July 11, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Omar Ford Tags: Business Digital Health Source Type: news

Comorbid Conditions in Heart Failure: An Unhappy Marriage
The general issue of comorbidity is of major clinical importance for patients, health care providers, and society as a whole. A principal manifestation of aging, multimorbidity poses many challenges on the overall health of an individual and to the health care system in heart failure. Polypharmacy in heart failure patients with multiple morbidities influences their prognosis, adds a disease burden, and challenges adherence to medical management while increasing overall cost of care. Heart failure has special bidirectional relationships with cardiac and noncardiac comorbidity that are pathophysiologically intertwined. Examp...
Source: Heart Failure Clinics - March 20, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Mandeep R. Mehra, Javed Butler Source Type: research