by Bruce Brown | March 16, 2023 | Health, Medical
When is getting exercise not a good idea? Working out could result in sudden death for people with a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). HCM, the most prevalent cause of sudden death of young athletes, is a genetic condition that is often...
by Bruce Brown | August 4, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Big data plays an increasingly important role in medicine and in public health studies. The adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs), arrays of continuous biometric sensors, and collaborations among global organizations that collect, analyze, and study massive...
by Bruce Brown | June 30, 2021 | Health
Wearables continue to prove their worth in clinical trials. We originally wrote about Blue Spark Technologies’ TempTraq in June 2015. At the time we took note of the wearable’s thin, lightweight, and convenient wireless continuous temperature monitor...
by Bruce Brown | July 10, 2019 | Medical
Agencies, universities, and private companies increasingly turn to machine learning to speed up and improve the predictive accuracy of healthcare technology testing. A group of more than 30 top hospitals and research institutions in Europe and the U.S. formed the...
by Bruce Brown | June 19, 2019 | General News, Health, Medical
Suicide is the second most frequent cause of death among people aged 10 to 34 in the U.S. and the fourth most frequent cause of death for people between the ages of 34 and 54, according to the CDC. We have written about programs that use AI to help children make wiser...
