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 prevention and clinical care globally.

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

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 down with us to explain what to watch for and why catching it early ...

(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 ...