Archives of gynecology and obstetrics
Jan 16, 2026
PURPOSE: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of mortality in women worldwide, with hypertension being a major risk factor. While traditional blood pressure monitoring techniques rely on cuff-based measurements, wearable devices offer a pro...
BACKGROUND: Wearable sensor technologies such as inertial measurement units, smartwatches, and multisensor systems have emerged as valuable tools in clinical and real-world health monitoring. These devices enable continuous, noninvasive tracking of g...
BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major noncommunicable disease with a significant increase in prevalence, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The latest International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas (2025) reports that 11.1% of ...
BACKGROUND: In 2019, global sleep surveys reported that 80% of adults want to improve their sleep quality, and in 2021, 45% were reported to be dissatisfied with their sleep. In 2025, among American adults, 37% reported sleep dissatisfaction and 38% ...
BACKGROUND: Wearable devices enable continuous measurement of physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep, and heart rate under free-living conditions. However, most validation studies rely on small, homogeneous samples; are conducted under laborato...
Once we learn a reliable gait, we no longer have to consciously contract individual muscles to walk, or think about the fine-grained low-level control of our joints. Instead, we mainly make decisions on where we want to end up, at what pace and throu...
World journal of microbiology & biotechnology
Dec 24, 2025
Bacterial detection and identification is paramount as it plays a key role in safeguarding human health, food safety and security. Over the past decade, biosensors have emerged as a powerful tool for bacterial detection due to their ability to provid...
BACKGROUND: The growing population of patients with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) present complex lifelong care needs that traditional health systems are struggling to meet. Without innovation, gaps in access, timeliness and specialist oversi...
BACKGROUND: Wearable accelerometers, which continuously record physical activity metrics, are commonly used in mobile health-enabled cardiac rehabilitation (mHealth-CR). The association between adherence to accelerometer use during mHealth-CR and imp...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Dec 22, 2025
Humanoid robots with advanced sensory capabilities are increasingly demanded for empathetic, close-contact interactions with humans. Electronic skin (E-skin) is a key enabling technology for such tactile perception. However, current E-skins are limit...
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