Researchers at Northwestern Medicine plan to give Apple Watches to thousands of people as part of a health study. The study is geared toward patients with atrial fibrillation, or AFib, the most common ...

An NIH-funded clinical trial is exploring the potential role of wearables in managing atrial fibrillation (AFib), possibly helping reduce patient reliance on lifelong blood thinners. This seven-year ...

Smartwatch screening detects atrial fibrillation earlier and more often, offering a scalable strategy to improve stroke ...

This American Heart Month is a time to spread awareness about heart health and diagnoses that can be easy to miss. One of ...

A new trial suggests Apple Watch could make a meaningful difference in what happens after atrial fibrillation ablation, not by changing the procedure itself, but by changing what patients and doctors ...

Johnson & Johnson will test the Apple Watch’s ability to perform early detection and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat that can act as a sign of stroke. The randomized, ...

The Apple Watch has yet again proven itself a worthwhile investment, prompting one Austin man to seek help when he wouldn't have otherwise. Like many people, Mike Gomez had purchased an Apple Watch ...

Cardiogram, a startup seeking to make the sensor data from the Apple Watch more useful for the average watch user, and, eventually, useful in a clinical context, has raised $2 million in a round led ...

The atria are unable to pump blood properly, which can lead to blood pooling and the formation of clots inside the heart. If a clot travels to the brain, it can cause a stroke. Share on Facebook ...

AFib, or irregular heartbeat, can strike without warning and it can be deadly if untreated. Dr. Senfield from Bon Secours sat ...

(RTTNews) - New peer-reviewed research showed that the Apple Watch may be much more effective at detecting atrial fibrillation (AFib) than traditional methods, as the smartwatch monitoring found many ...