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    Apple launches virtual health studies aiming to enroll hundreds of thousands of customers

    Apple on Thursday launched three health studies — focused on mobility, menstruation, and hearing — that aim monitor hundreds of thousands of people via their own iPhones and Apple Watches.
    by Rebecca Robbins Nov 14, 2019 2 minutes
    Source: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images

    SAN FRANCISCO — Apple on Thursday launched three observational studies — focused on mobility, menstruation, and hearing — that each aim to enroll hundreds of thousands of people and monitor them virtually using their own iPhones and Apple Watches.

    Amid rising concern about health data privacy, the tech giant has vowed not to sell the data collected from the studies. Apple will allow

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