Digital weight loss company Noom has announced several new hires within its leadership team, including new executive vice president and chief financial officer Jean Clifton, chief technology officer Rich Friedman, and general counsel Norman Petty.
The company has also appointed Jim Bugden as senior vice president of corporate development and partnerships, named Katerina Kugel as senior director...
Keeping weight off after a successful diet has traditionally posed a difficult challenge for dieters, but researchers in Oulu Finland have just published a study in the Journal of Internal Medicine that highlighted how a hybrid web-based intervention could help for the long run.
The study's authors found that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) counseling combined with an online health behavior...
Mobile health pilots conducted by Dr. Richard Katz of George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC were the subject of a recent Associated Press report. "Medical Minutes" is the term Katz uses to describe his program.
Katz aims to use incentives to see whether inner-city diabetics, an "especially hard-to-reach population," according to the AP, will better control their blood sugar and...