How Apple Watch helped this woman catch her cancer early

We’ve heard many stories about the Apple Watch alerting people to life-threatening health conditions. A new story out of New Zealand, however, truly shows the breadth of what the Apple Watch’s preventive health monitoring can do for users. Amanda Faulkner, a consultant psychiatrist based in Napier, New Zealand, upgraded to the Apple Watch Series 10 last year. After using her husband’s old Apple Watch for years, one of the new features offered by the Apple Watch Series 10 is the Vitals app. The Vitals app tracks your overnight metrics, including heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, blood oxygen, and sleep. It then delivers a report every morning, alerting you if any of your metrics were abnormal that night. In an interview with The New Zealand Herald, Faulkner said her Apple Watch sent her multiple alerts that her resting heart rate was elevated from historically being around 55 beats per minute to being in the 90s. Initially, she thought her Apple Watch “must be faulty.” A ... Read full article.