We are proud to announce the launch of the new company logo as part of the ongoing evolution of our company’s brand. Our business has grown and evolved over the last 30 years, and we felt it was time for a change. We have refreshed our logo to reflect who we are today and to symbolize our dynamic future. This wasn’t a decision we made lightly. ...

COSMED is glad to present the new 1.2 version of OMNIA, the powerful diagnostic software platform from COSMED. The new 1.2 release is available starting from February 15th 2014. OMNIA 1.2 covers 3 brand new modules (TGV, DLCO, 6MWT) together with a wide range of important improvements and some minor bug fixes of the previous version. OMNIA 1.2...

The path to the NFL Draft continues at the Combine in Indianapolis, where more than 300 top prospects will continue on their quest to achieve their NFL dreams. Numbers Don't Lie COSMED will be at the 2014 NFL Scouting Combine for the 9th consecutive year, providing the BOD PODs that will be used as the exclusive tool for body composition testi...

Sumo Japan Association published on its Twitter account (@sumokyokai) some photos of major professional sumo wrestlers in Japan going inside the BOD POD to test their body composition and health status. The images can be seen in the following Facebook album (COSMED News page): click here  

The physiological effects on humans of prolonged exposure to both reduced gravity and hypoxia was investigated by the EU PlanHab project. The aim of the European Commission Framework 7 project "Planetary Habitat Simulation" (acronym:PlanHab) is to investigate the combined and interactive effects of hypoxia and sustained recumbency (bedrest), on...

Endurance sport met endurance science in Death Valley during Red Bull Project Endurance. For five days, 11 scientists from around the world used six championship-level endurance athletes as test subjects, applying cutting edge technology to find the cutting edge. How much further can endurance go? Can recovery be improved or sped up? What limit...

COSMED Spiropalm 6MWT handheld spirometer won the 2013 Product of Outstanding Interest (POINT) Award from the European Respiratory Society (ERS) during the ERS Congress in Barcelona (Spain). The European Respiratory Society has created the Product of Outstanding Interest (POINT) award to recognise devices or equipment that embody innovation, ei...

Training session for UK team of the "Walking with the Wounded 2013 South Pole Allied Challenge" included VO2max tests with Fitmate PRO. "Walking With The Wounded" is a UK based charity which funds both the re-training and re-education of wounded servicemen and women with the aim of helping them find long term employment after they have left the...

The Miami Hurricanes website published an article containing a video on "U Nutrition" programme where it is explained the utility of the BOD POD for their athletes. The video, which is part of the new web series "Mind Games", introduces the importance of nutrition planning to improve performance and physical fitness of students-athletes in the ...

OMNIA, power and simplicity combined in a leading-edge user interface. Omnia the new software generation of COSMED! COSMED is glad to introduce OMNIA, the new generation of software for COSMED cardio-pulmonary diagnostics. Developed entirely by COSMED, OMNIA provides an innovative and user-friendly interface that allows operators to navigate an...

A new global brand campaign has beeen launched by American sport apparel company New Balance. This fully integrated campaign reflects New Balance's long-standing commitment to innovation and evolution around the sport of running. The main objective of this campaign was to highlight the evolution of running into a more social activity, pushing t...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) website dispatched a press release on a new performance-enhancing suite for soldiers. DARPA's Warrior Web program seeks to create a soft, lightweight under-suit that would help reduce injuries and fatigue common for soldiers, who often carry 100-pound loads for extended periods over rough...

For the eighth consecutive year, the BOD POD® was the exclusive tool for body composition testing at the NFL Scouting Combine. COSMED USA, Inc., manufacturer of the BOD POD body composition tracking system, and the Combine established this joint initiative in 2006 to assess %Fat, Fat Mass, Fat-Free Mass, and Total Body Mass in athletes. This in...

The "Hot Trends" section of Wired Magazine (March 2013) dedicated a full report on Ray Cronise's study on the impact of cold to human metabolism. Ray Cronise tests try to demonstrate that exposing the body to cold can be a radically effective spur for losing weight.To know more about his findings: click here Wired Magazine writer Steven Leckar...

New York Times article presents a study where energy expenditure and other physiological data of hunter-gatherer populations are compared to their Western counterparts. The article of the NYT is written by Herman Pontzer (Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, New York, USA), who was among the team that lead the scientific study. The main...

COSMED is proud to announce that it was selected to outfit the physiology assessment laboratory in the 23rd James Bond adventure movie: SKYFALL James Bond movies have always featured leading-edge products and technologies. The selection of COSMED recognizes its innovative equipment and know-how in the field of functional evaluation and diagnost...

The former football champion Ronaldo, who reached 118 kg after the conclusion of his football career, has participated to a reality show on weight management. The show "Medida Certa" on the Brazilian TV Fantastico showed the different tests that Ronaldo had to face before starting his weight management plan. Among these tests also the body comp...

An article by the Spanish online magazine SportLife.es focuses on the focus given to anthropometrics monitoring by the medical team of legendary Spanish footbal team Real Madrid. Real Madrid has been the first Spanish football team to acquire a Bod Pod and is using it for accurate body composition monitoring to its athletes to assess their fitn...

Maximum oxygen uptake was measured on all football players of the Italian national team, during the training sessions in preparation for Euro 2012. The athletes underwent some physical tests wearing the COSMED K4b2 metabolic monitor and mask. The tests included functional assessment by measuring anareobic threshold with the Mognoni test. See t...

Gas exchange measurement tests were performed to off-road motorcycle riders at the Motocross Millsaps Training Facility in Cairo, GA (USA). According to Clint from Innovative Performance (the company that managed the tests): "Our main reason for buying the K4 was to have a mobile system that will allow us to test in the lab or 'in the sport'. W...

As a result of the recently completed acquisition of Life Measurement, Inc. (LMI), a leading provider of body composition assessment equipment in infants, children and adults, COSMED USA, Inc. and LMI have merged, with COSMED USA, Inc. as the surviving company. COSMED USA, Inc., and its parent company, COSMED srl, a European company with Headqu...