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Chinese electronics company Xiaomi has announced a new fitness band that will retail in China for just $13 (79 RMB).

Fogg speaking at SXSW last year Retail pharmacy company Walgreens is bolstering its rewards program by training some of its pharmacists and online customer reps in Stanford psychologist and mobile health expert Dr.

Marion McCall of Surgical Information Systems explains how mobile devices can help improve one of the most complex and chaotic departments in the hospital.

Sensoria Fitness socks, which come with a snap-on anklet.

Over the weekend the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), which represents the country's more than 100,000 osteopathic physicians (D.

Earlier this month, Chicago-based startup FitnessCubed launched a Kickstarter for its device, a portable elliptical, called Cubii that fits under a user's desk.

In a new report from the California HealthCare Foundation, the report's author, health economist and consultant Jane Sarasohn-Kahn concludes that while the increasing amount of consumer wellness and fitness data collected today has a lot of value for personalized healthcare, it also presents new risks for consumer privacy.

Roseland, New Jersey-based Epion Health raised $4.

Israel-based HelpAround, which makes an app that connects people with diabetes in the same immediate area, has raised $550,000 from Windham Venture Partners and angel investors Walter Winshall, Robert Oringer and former Harmonix COO Michael Dornbrook.

Healthcare information technology companies, including mobile and digital health companies, raised more than twice as much in total venture capital funding in the second quarter of 2014 as they did in the first, according to a new report from communications and consulting firm Mercom.