Released: June 23, 2012

Health-care apps for smartphones pit FDA against tech industry

Source: Dina ElBoghdady, The Washington Post

Medical applications have flooded onto millions of smartphones, offering consumers the chance to check their heart rate, identify a pill in their medicine cabinet or even scan moles for skin cancer. Soon, if a firm called AliveCor gets its way, they may even be able to get an EKG by pressing iPhone to chest.

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