Here are some of the top stories in mobile health that we’ve been monitoring in recent days.

• Infographic: How Are Healthcare Providers Using Health IT and EHRs?

Baylor College of Medicine researchers believe that mobile sensor technology could prove instrumental in helping recovering drug addicts stay clean.

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Official word came this week that the OfferHubb mobile advertising platform has been opened to final testing from the company’s thousands of sales affiliates.

“Both OfferHubb.com and the iPhone and Android mobile apps are being unveiled and will be launching live with merchants and customers nationwide within days,” an announcement from Thursday reads.

A combination of a cutting-edge mobile advertising platform along with lucrative business model that has drawn thousands of sales affiliate nationwide, OfferHubb is poised to stake its claim in the fast growing local advertising industry, which Forbes pegs at $100 billion annually.

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We’ve known for some time that it’s coming. But on Thursday, the app finally arrived.

Facebook has just rolled out a version of its app for Google Glass.

If you’re lucky enough to be among the early testers of Google Glass, the Facebook app is certainly poised to occupy some of your time this weekend.

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This week, Distimo – a prominent leader in app store market data and analytics – announced several key executive appointments.

The appointments are supposedly designed to scale business development efforts, drive global sales and strategic partnerships.

The company also announced the simultaneous opening of new offices in New York City, San Francisco, London, and Singapore.

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Tapjoy continues to grow and thrive as one of the premier mobile ad networks in today’s mobile advertising ecosystem.

This week, in fact, Tapjoy became the first global advertising platform to help Kakao Games developers monetize their apps

The well-respected mobile advertising and publishing platform recently secured an agreement with Kakao, Inc., the largest mobile social platform in Korea, to allow developers on the Kakao Games platform to monetize their apps through Tapjoy’s advertising and monetization tools.

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Following weeks of countdown fanfare, Apple has announced that its App Store has reached 50 billion downloads.

This number, the tech giant reveals, counts the number of individual application downloads, and does not include re-downloads.

The lucky individual who downloaded of the 50 billionth application will receive a whopping $10,000 iTunes gift card.

50 additional winners will receive a $500 iTunes gift card.

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On Tuesday, BlackBerry announced plans to bring its BlackBerry BBM messaging service to iOS and Android.

The cross-platform offering will work with iOS 6 and Android 4.0 when it launches with such popular features as multi-person chats, photo sharing, and voice notes.

“For BlackBerry, messaging and collaboration are inseparable from the mobile experience, and the time is definitely right for BBM to become a multi-platform mobile service,” explains Andrew Bocking, Executive Vice President of Software Product Management and Ecosystem at BlackBerry.

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