Healthcare & Fitness News

The "Zombies, Run!" iPhone app encourages runners to pick up the pace, joining a number of other mobile exercise games in promoting healthy lifestyles.

An app could help people keep their New Year's resolution to stay in shape by offering cash incentives to get them into the gym, a unique approach for motivating people to get fit.

A Red Cross first-aid mobile app could just save your life.

A new app from developer Zeo attempts to track users' sleeping habits, but it's not the first to offer consumers insight into routine health issues.

Azumio's "Instant Heart Rate" app has passed the 10 million download mark, making it one of the most popular health apps on the market and demonstrating the popularity of medical apps.

An app offering health care data has been expanded to include details on over 1,000 medications, another sign that apps are now a key source of medical information.

A new app aims to help dementia sufferers and even people who are just plain forgetful remember to do routine tasks, one sign of how mobile technology can help daily life.

A new app aims to curb a sedentary lifestyle by making walking a competitive game, a sign suggesting that people today need rewards to do even the most mundane things.

A new iPhone app helps migraine headache sufferers document their symptoms and medication use so doctors can manage treatment, in the latest intersection of smartphones and medicine.

Instead of just playing games and checking e-mails, iPhone owners can now save lives, thanks to an app that alerts CPR-trained folk to nearby emergencies.

Verizon and Medco Health Solutions, a pharmacy services provider, have developed an app that provides critical information about a user's prescriptions, offering an unregulated but critical link between patients and doctors.

Apps are an increasing way for a person to go green, or become more environmentally conscious.

"MealSnap," a new iPhone app, uses a smartphone camera to estimate foods' calorie count, the latest of a growing number of diet and nutrition apps for consumers.

A new iPhone app, developed by psychologists, claims to improve the chances of quitting smoking by as much as 15 percent, by rewarding positive behavior through games.

A public hospital in Australia has developed a free symptom-checker iPhone app for men, in another step in mobile technology helping to advance medical practice while helping men communicate more easily about their physical ailments.