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by Unber Shafiq | June 29, 2022 | Health, Medical
Wearables like fitness trackers and smartwatches have been a part of our lives for a while now. These devices assist in measuring an individual’s sleeping pattern, walking speed, heart rate, and the number of steps. Could they be of more use? In a recent study...
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by Bruce Brown | June 28, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Health
Brain-computer-interfaces (BCI) and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to make giant strides advancing human prosthetics. We previously covered a project at the Georgia Institute of Technology that developed an AI-powered prosthesis that restored a...
by Unber Shafiq | June 28, 2022 | Medical
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to Rune Labs’ StrivePD Ecosystem for monitoring Parkinson’s disease through the Apple Watch. Rune Labs is a precision neurology platform that focuses vastly on exploring new techniques of...
by Bruce Brown | June 27, 2022 | Health, Medical
“Digital therapeutics” (DTx) isn’t just a new buzz word. This is a new category of medical interventions that are delivered directly to patients, typically in their homes, using apps running on smartphones or other digital devices. Two groups, the...
by William McCleary | June 27, 2022 | Enabling Tech
It rolls. It flips. It jumps and it swims. And this tiny robot may one day deliver a payload of medicine inside your body. That’s the current focus for a fingertip-sized robot being developed at Stanford University. Under the helm of mechanical engineer Renee...
by William McCleary | June 24, 2022 | Medical
As telehealth grows increasingly common, nearly every aspect of traditional healthcare has online chat and video-call components. This runs from virtual wellness visits and post-surgery consultations to a wide range of remote patient monitor (RPM) and mental health...
