Yahoo Finance September 11, 2019
Anjalee Khemlani

With a boost from prominent organizations and new features on the Apple Watch, the tech giant is entrenching itself deeper in the health care space.

Largely overlooked amid all the buzz on Tuesday over the latest iPhone, wearable and streaming service was the fact that Apple (AAPL) announced three new research partnerships with some of the biggest health care organizations in the country.

The World Health Organization, American Heart Association and National Institute of Health are among those who are contributing to the tech giant’s push to expand into health research, touted by Apple executives as the largest effort of its kind.

The new research projects — which come after success with its first study, heart research conducted with Stanford...

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