How smart contact lenses will help keep an eye on your health
Health tech: Researchers are working on combining sensors with off-the-shelf contact lenses for a range of medical applications.
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Analysing your sweat could be the next big thing in health tech
Sweat sensor technology is opening up a whole new frontier for both optimising sports performance and medical monitoring.
Apple's digital health plan puts the iPhone and Apple Watch at the heart of your wellbeing
Apple has been gradually building out its health strategy; here's what it looks like right now.
This million-core supercomputer inspired by the human brain breaks all the rules
SpiNNaker's spiking neural network mimics the human brain, and could fuel breakthroughs in robotics and health.
DeepMind and the NHS: What it's really like to use Google's kidney health app
The Royal Free was one of Google's first healthcare partners. Two years on, how is the product of their partnership working out?
Google's grand plan for health, from fitness apps right up to defeating death
Verily, DeepMind, and Calico are all part of Google's long game for the future for the company.
Fighting diseases with data science: How the NHS wants to smash silos to supercharge healthcare
The NHS already has the data to identify rare diseases and discover new treatments. It just needs to find it.
Smart watches, fitness trackers and the NHS: Are wearables just what the doctor ordered?
While more and more of us are wearing fitness trackers, the real benefits of wearables may come from another quarter.
Augmented reality in the operating theatre: How surgeons are using Microsoft's HoloLens to make operations better
Surgeons at St Mary's Hospital have been using a HoloLens-based system to pick out blood vessels before surgery.
The pioneering bionic eyes restoring sight: How implantable tech is fighting blindness
An Australian collaboration is working on a less surgically invasive system to restore sight to people with retinitis pigmentosum.