The tests mums-to-be are subject to during the last trimester of their pregnancy can be stressful, and a tricky undertaking for both patient and doctor. But Apple has found a way to simplify things. New technology for the Apple Watch allows women to perform their own scans at home.

Health and fitness app Healthbook – designed to resemble Passbook – can analyse everything from heart rate to hydration. The full extent of how the app will monitor these remains unknown, though Apple has hired a number of health and fitness experts.

Tucked into the pockets of 44 million people in the US alone, iPhones have become our lives – and now they could save them, too. Apple’s ResearchKit is a platform for creating apps that collect medical data and it's got potential to completely alter personalised medicine and mobile health.

Everyone knows that preparing to welcome a new baby into the world can be a hectic and stressful experience. But research has found it to be more serious than that; pregnancy can be a time when new mothers and fathers are particularly vulnerable to mental health issues.