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The latest health tech and wellbeing wearable tech news, including stress busting devices, heart rate monitors and more.

The NHS is getting ready to trial Diabetes Digital Coach wearables in England

NHS to trial diabetes wearables in England

Patients in the West of England will be the first to try the tech
Hi-Tec Trek Plus review

Hi-Tec Trek Plus

A solid sub-£100 fitness tracker that lacks a really killer feature
Meet the 3D scanning company that wants to make hearables a better fit

Why hearables need a better fit

United Sciences is aiming to make in-ear wearables smarter and stay put too
This man's prosthetic arm is gesture controlled with a Myo armband

Myo armband gesture controls prosthetic arm

Does Johnny Matheny have the ultimate wearable?
Wahoo 7 Minute Workout on Apple TV plays nice with Tickr X heart rate monitor

Wahoo Apple TV app works with Tickr X

Hook your Tickr X up to make sure you're getting a proper workout
Power-assisted people: Exosuits could make man more machine

Power-assisted people

Is the key to extended lives mechanical rather than medicinal?
Wareable picks: Sports gadget of the year

Sports gadget of the year 2015

Team Wareable racks its collective brain to look back over the last 12 months
#Trending: Health platforms and wearables finally make sense

#Trending: Health platforms evolved

The steady rise of those alternative places to store your health and fitness data
Pebble Health wants you to ditch your fitness tracker

Get Pebble Health, ditch the tracker

Native activity and sleep tracking comes to Pebble Time smartwatches from today
Meet MIT's temperature sensing, medicine delivering Band-Aid of the future

Meet MIT's Band-Aid of the future

This smart wound dressing is stretchy and sticky
Google patented a blood-sucking smartwatch

Google patented a blood-sucking smartwatch

This wearable concept could help diabetics but is it part of the Life Sciences line-up?
MotusPro full body sensor is a wearable for baseball lovers

MotusPro full body sensor for baseball fans

Sluggers rejoice, real-time analysis is on the way
Panic button: How wearable tech and VR are tackling the problem of panic attacks

Connected tech versus panic attacks

Experiments in bringing anxiety apps and breathing techniques closer to the action
#Trending: Coaching from your wrist

#Trending: Coaching from your wrist

Which wearables can replace your personal trainer?
Misfit Flash Link review

Misfit Flash Link

This damn cheap wearable can't decide if it's a tracker or a smart home button
Jabil Peak+: Is this the key to bringing smart clothing to the masses?

Smart clothing for the masses?

How one company wants to revolutionise smart clothing in a big way
Why does health and fitness tracking lead to success for some and failure for others?

Success and failure in tracking

Knowledge is power but it's not enough to get you fit and healthy
A beginner's guide to MyFitnessPal

A beginner's guide to MyFitnessPal

Set goals, sync up your wearable and start tracking your, well, everything
Wearables for good: Why are tech companies altruistic?

Why are tech companies altruistic?

Wearable tech is solving huge, global problems as well as smaller 'first world' ones
Playbrush makes tooth brushing a game

Playbrush makes brushing into a game

Your kids will love this toothbrush, and so will your dentist
Why the EU's health data plans could be bad news for the quantified self

Are the EU's data plans bad for wearables?

If you track your health and lifestyle, you need to get interested in regulation stat
The auto calorie counter HealBe GoBe now claims to measure how hydrated you are

HealBe GoBe gets hydration update

Take this with a pinch of salt - everyone's favourite controversial wearable is back
Wearables need to look beyond calories to really help us live better

Wearables need to go beyond calories

There's more to healthy eating than calories in and out
Medical record necklace Khushi Baby wins UNICEF's Wearables for Good challenge

Data storing necklace wins Unicef challenge

The NFC device was the joint winner alongside wearable soap project SoaPen
Withings boss: The secret of new health tracking devices is in the data

New Withings devices inbound

The health tech company is about to release a slew of devices. It means business
Wearing a Mio Fuse could help Parkinson's patients reduce their symptoms

Mio HRM tech could help Parkinson's patients

Mio has teamed up with Philips and digital health company Beneufit
The Quantified Woman: Fertility tracking and the future of our reproductive health

The Quantified Woman

Taking control of fertility in the age of connected tech
Health o meter's NuYu Sleep System is on sale now

NuYu Sleep System is on sale now

Use this temperature controlled mattress pad to get a good night's sleep
10 ultimate fitness tracker ingredients

Creating the perfect fitness tracker

What we’re missing from the complete activity tracker
EpiWatch is a ResearchKit app for the Apple Watch that tracks seizures

EpiWatch app tracks seizures

Johns Hopkins researchers want people with epilepsy to help them study seizures
Crunching the calories: What I learned from two weeks with MyFitnessPal

My wearable calorie counting diary

What I found out about food tracking, wearable tech and my own motivation
The $38 wearable that could save the lives of millions of newborn babies a year

The $38 baby life saver

WAAA! is one of the finalists competing in UNICEF's Wearables for Good challenge
The Looncup tracks your periods and keeps everything down there tickety-boo

The Looncup tracks your periods

If the word menstruation makes you squeamish, this isn't for you
If you're not designing for women, get out of the wearable tech game now

Design for women or go home

"Yeah let's ignore half the people who might buy our tech product, that will work"
Your doctor could soon be treating your virtual twin as a digital patient

Virtual twins could save your life

UCL's Vanessa Diaz explains why medical avatars are the way forward
​Jawbone pals up with Runtastic to merge fitness data

Jawbone pals up with Runtastic

You'll now get the rewards for your runs within the UP app
74% of people in the UK would share wearable tech data with their GP

74% of Brits will give GP wearable data

KPMG survey shows that people trust NHS with their data but not private health firms
Sony SmartBand 2 review

Sony SmartBand 2

Can Sony finally make some headway in the fitness tracker space?
The great calorie con: The truth about nutrition tracking and wearable tech

The great calorie counting con

If you're keeping tabs on your calorie count with a wearable device then take heed
Withings adds Spotify to revamped sleep monitoring Aura range

Withings adds Spotify to revamped Aura

IFA 2015: Spotify Connect on board for new Aura Connected Alarm Clock
Samsung's SleepSense monitor is your expert sleep consultant

Samsung announces Sleep Sense tracker

IFA 2015: Place this sensor under your mattress to track your zzzs
Nuyu wellness system connects you with all of your daily activities

Nuyu tracks your daily life

Track it all with this step counter, scale, and sleep monitor