WEBINAR: Flexible Sensors for Healthcare

by Alfred Poor | June 7, 2018 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical

Many people believe that flexible sensors and electronic devices are going to provide the deus ex machina required to transform our healthcare systems. By getting better data more frequently from more patients, healthcare professionals will be able to diagnose illness...

Smartwatch Monitors Blood Pressure and More [video]

by Bruce Brown | June 6, 2018 | General News, Health

It can be difficult to accept some of the claims as fitness and activity trackers morph into multifunction biometric-tracking smartwatches that promise to be all things to all users. While the smartwatches intrigue potential buyers, their doctors may not be interested...

Football Helmet Monitors Impacts [video]

by Bruce Brown | June 5, 2018 | General News, Health

Concussions and other traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) accounted for 6.5% of reported sports and recreation-related injuries in a nine-year longitudinal study published in 2011 by the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC). Among males ages 10-19, football...

In-Mouth Wireless Sensor Detects Sodium

by Bruce Brown | June 4, 2018 | General News, Health

Hypertension, aka high blood pressure, is an increasingly common condition affecting one of two U.S. adults — often without symptoms — according to the American Heart Association (AHA). Hypertension increases the risk for heart disease and stroke, two of...

Students Design Lightweight Cough Assist Device

by Bruce Brown | June 1, 2018 | General News, Medical

Patients with neuromuscular diseases often can’t clear their airways adequately because they have difficulty coughing. According to a 2016 study by the Rehabilitation Institute of Neuromuscular Disease at Yonsei University College of Medicine, cough impairment...

Teledermatology Costs More but Saves 26 Days

by Bruce Brown | May 31, 2018 | General News, Medical

Teledermatology is telemedicine’s poster child, reducing traditionally long wait times for dermatologist appointments. In 2015, the CDC reported the rate of deadly melanomas more than doubled in three decades. Heightened skin cancer awareness sent people to...