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According to the World Health Organization, approximately 3 billion people on earth cook with fire. They burn wood, coal, crop waste, or animal dung to prepare meals. However, toxic cooking fumes are responsible for more deaths than tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV combined. Unfortunately, pregnant mothers in developing countries -- especially those living in remote and rural … [Read more...]
Airbag Belt Protects Hips in Falls [video]
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Hip fractures among people over 65 can be difficult to recover from. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year 600,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized with hip fractures. Of those cases, 95% are caused by falls, usually sideways. After a hip fracture, 25% of elderly patients die within 12 months, 25% are never able to live independently … [Read more...]
Homeland Security Tests Smart Collars
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents work hard at tasks including search and rescue, firearms detection, and stopping drug smuggling. They can spend long hours in difficult climate conditions that can put a serious strain on a body's systems. Unfortunately, some members of more than 1,500 CBP teams can't tell their colleagues if they are experiencing physical … [Read more...]
Connecting Body to Cloud
A combination of new technologies offer the potential for unprecedented change in healthcare. We have low cost sensors that can be incorporated into miniature devices to measure all sorts of vital body functions. We have low-power wireless technology that let these devices exchange data with each other and the world. We have cloud computing that stores data that can also … [Read more...]
Baby Monitor with Pulse Oximeter [video]
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Parenting and wearable technology for babies are a growing market, answering the desire of parents to be sure everything is fine with their babies, especially newborns. Moving beyond traditional baby monitors, newer technology tracks and reports biometrics to parents. Body temperature and heartbeat are common applications for wearable baby health tech. Previously we wrote about … [Read more...]
