Consumer

Palo Alto, California-based Kurbo Health, which is developing a mobile-enabled program aimed at preventing childhood obesity, has raised $4 million new funding in addition to the $1.

Once again, Google has captured the news cycle with the announcement of an ambitious, health-focused project.

Mobile wellness social network developer PumpUp raised $2.

A group of researchers from Spain have published a paper on a seatbelt and seat cover embedded with sensors that can detect the driver's respiration and heart rate to combat the driver fatalities and car accidents caused by fatigue.

Apple has been granted a patent, filed originally in July 2011, for a wrist-worn iWatch device, giving a new peek into some possible features of the much-hyped device rumored to be launching in October.

About 9 percent of Americans received comparative information about doctors from a ratings website like HealthGrades.

Chinese electronics company Xiaomi has announced a new fitness band that will retail in China for just $13 (79 RMB).

Sensoria Fitness socks, which come with a snap-on anklet.

In a new report from the California HealthCare Foundation, the report's author, health economist and consultant Jane Sarasohn-Kahn concludes that while the increasing amount of consumer wellness and fitness data collected today has a lot of value for personalized healthcare, it also presents new risks for consumer privacy.

Israel-based HelpAround, which makes an app that connects people with diabetes in the same immediate area, has raised $550,000 from Windham Venture Partners and angel investors Walter Winshall, Robert Oringer and former Harmonix COO Michael Dornbrook.