Fitbit’s blood pressure technology could be closer than we thought after it filed a patent for a special wearable sensor. The patent outlines a pressure sensor in the display, which mimics a blood ...

In the world of mass-market wrist-based wearables, blood pressure sensing is being seen as the next holy grail for health monitoring. Samsung has already rolled out blood pressure sensing on its ...

Blood pressure monitoring, now part of daily life, has mostly been achieved with bulky and mechanical cuff-based medical devices. That’s changing with the availability of solid-state blood-pressure ...

Infineon Technologies has announced an agreement with Blumio to jointly develop a wearable blood pressure sensor based on Infineon’s XENSIV chipset. The new sensor will make a robust contribution to ...

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Brazilian researchers have simultaneously demonstrated the mechanism linking high blood pressure to elevated intracranial pressure, validated a non-invasive intracranial pressure monitoring method, ...

Future iterations of the Apple Watch could monitor blood pressure, signs of heart failure, and more. A slew of new patents reveals Cupertino's plan to leverage not just the metal square that currently ...

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No more squeezing: The FDA has cleared a smartwatch-like blood pressure device that foregoes the need for an inflatable cuff. Developed by LiveMetric, the electronic wearable can take a reading every ...

A research group at Lund University has studied how a molecular sensor located in the blood vessel wall, controls how the vessel compensates for high blood pressure. As we age, the sensor deteriorates ...