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...
by Alfred Poor | September 12, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Nearly all our electricity comes from mechanical energy; a flow of liquid or gas passes a propeller or similar device, which spins magnets in a coil of wire to produce an electrical current. This is the basic technology behind hydroelectric, coal, gas, nuclear, and...
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by Alfred Poor | November 16, 2015 | General News, Medical
Patients who have lost kidney function to injury or disease must rely on dialysis machines to cleanse their blood of excess fluid, salts, and toxins. This typically requires that they sit, hooked up to a machine in a clinical setting, for 12 to 15 hours every...
by Alfred Poor | November 4, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
Teeth are intended to last a lifetime, but injury and disease can often lead to the need for a replacement. From George Washington’s (apocryphal) wooden teeth, people have used a variety of metals, ivory, ceramics, and plastic resins to create false teeth....
by Alfred Poor | October 23, 2014 | Fitness, Health, Medical
An article in IEEE Spectrum describes work by researchers at the University of Cincinnati and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories. They started with the fact that signs of over-exertion and dehydration can be detected in a person’s sweat before the problem...
