Aditi Pai

Severna Park, Maryland-based mobile sleep apnea-focused company Appian Medical has raised $580,000 from angel investors to conduct validation studies and apply for FDA 510(k) clearance for its app.

Although one third of consumers who own wearable devices stop using them within six months, the rate of adoption of smart wearable technology has increased, according to a survey of 1,700 device owners from Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Endeavour Partners.

Redwood, California-based wearable technology maker Athos raised $12.

Palo Alto, California-based health app maker Azumio raised $916,000, according to an SEC filing.

Researchers from Harvard and Stanford have published a paper in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) that explores how much public data exists on Facebook about several popular health conditions.

Louisville, Kentucky-based smart toothbrush maker Beam Technologies raised $5 million in a round led by Drive Capital for its manual smartphone connected toothbrush.

New York City-based mobile medical record system CareDox raised $2.

Dexcom Guide, the company's current education-only app Continuous glucose monitor maker Dexcom announced that it will partner with insulin pump maker Silicon Valley-based Asante Solutions so that users of Asante devices will be able to access that data from Dexcom's not-yet launched smartphone app.

Haifa, Israel-based MediSafe added a birth control pill tracking feature to its medication adherence app this week.

Toronto, Canada-based Figure 1 raised $4 million in a new round led by Union Square Ventures.