
Activity Trackers: Tools for Patient Behavior Change
Wearable devices can help individuals adopt healthy habits, preliminary research has found. In the future, they will become even more important tools.
Melanie Padgett Powers is the owner and founder of MelEdits. She is a longtime health writer and editor in the Washington, D.C., area. She started her career as a newspaper reporter and then spent 13 years as an editor/writer at membership-based health associations.
Wearable devices can help individuals adopt healthy habits, preliminary research has found. In the future, they will become even more important tools.
Patients with kidney disease have better long-term transplant success when they avoid dialysis and receive a kidney from a living donor. But a new study shows that these “timely transplants” remain elusive.
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