As the name suggests, your resting heart rate (RHR), or pulse, is the number of times your heart beats per minute when you're... well, at complete rest. (Heads up! Don't confuse it with blood pressure ...

After three harrowing weeks in the hospital, Terry Downs, 68, was on a path to recovery. A former Boeing engineer who helped design the stealth bomber, Downs was admitted to HCA Healthcare's Wesley ...

A new 'technopill' can safely monitor a person's vital signs from inside their bodies, researchers report. The vitals-monitoring (VM) Pill works by tracking the small vibrations in the body associated ...

Diagnosing sleep disorders such as sleep apnea usually requires a patient to spend the night in a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero Systems, and ...

New device developed by a company founded by Brigham researchers detected an opioid-overdose in preclinical models and captured respiratory rates and heart rates in 10 patients with sleep apnea “We ...

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NuraLogix this week unveiled the Anura MagicMirror, a new health product that is designed to use a combination of sensors and artificial intelligence to check vital signs and provide disease risk ...