Nokia has joined the biometric monitoring platform club. The Finish technology and communications giant recently dropped the Withings brand name from its line of wearable health tech devices. Now Nokia is moving forward to develop and market biometric monitoring devices and its central software … [Read More...]
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Device Stimulates the Brain for Mental Health Treatments [video]
Brain stimulation with wearable consumer or medical devices offers a wide range of possible helpful effects. We've looked at Thync Relax to alter moods, research at the University of Washington using … [Read More...]
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Women who are trying to get pregnant often find it difficult to determine their fertility windows. Tracking basal body temperature (BBT) is a common method of predicting ovulation. The traditional way … [Read More...]
Wearable Data Study Reveals Regional Parkinson’s Differences
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Blanket with Heartbeat Comforts Babies [video]
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Nokia Drops Withings Brand with New Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor
In Spring 2016 Finnish communications giant Nokia bought French health tech pioneering company Withings. Nokia's then-President Ramzi Haidamus stated in a press release that Withings would run the … [Read More...]
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Wearable Treats Chronic Constipation without Laxatives [video]
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Citizen Alert Program Saves Lives
Timeliness in response after a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is crucial. According to a Joint Commission report on SCA sponsored by Boston Scientific, Medtronic, and St. Jude Medical corporations, about … [Read More...]
Squeezable Game Controller Helps Upper Limb Therapy
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Portable Scanner Identifies Brain Bleeding
One of the insidious aspects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is that in most cases, the damage is not visible. The gold standard for diagnosis is a CT scan, but this is not possible on the battlefield … [Read More...]
Telemedicine as Effective for Headaches as Office Consultations
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