The REACT-AF trial began in July 2023 and is led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Randomized patients (half of the ...

Putting sensors in the wearable's band could unlock a host of health-monitoring features—if the patented device ever becomes ...

Now, as reported by 9to5Mac, the Apple Watch AFib feature is getting MDDT approval.This one (an acronym for “Medical Device Development Tool”) guarantees that the results returned by the ...

Apple and its collaborators at Stanford University reported preliminary results at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference in New Orleans over the weekend showing that the Apple Watch ...

Apple has made clear that it wants to play a role in the health care market, and now, it's one step closer to looking and feeling like a true health device maker. The US Food and Drug ...

The atrial fibrillation (AFib) detection feature on Apple Watch devices has become the first digital health technology to be qualified under a programme recently introduced by the FDA designed to ...

the watch helps monitor the frequency of AFib in people with the condition and can share that data with health care providers. As amazing as that is, last month the FDA also approved the Apple ...

The trial uses an Apple smartwatch to monitor episodes of AFib, a heart rhythm disorder ... thinners – while remaining monitored by the watch. "This frankly wasn't possible five or 10 years ...

One day, to test both devices' battery life, I charged the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch SE to 100 percent at 4:30 p.m ...

The Apple Watch Ultra's display is made from a flat sapphire ... It detects heartbeat and rhythm, and can let users know if atrial fibrillation is detected or if the heart is in a normal sinus ...

In more recent years, Apple has pivoted the focus of the Apple Watch to health, arguably the wearable’s biggest draw in 2024.

The Series 10 is a modest set of improvements over the Apple Watch Series 9. Notably, the watch is now a tiny bit thinner and larger, just enough to make the display fractionally bigger (42mm up ...