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by Alfred Poor | November 17, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
Part of the miracle of modern medicine is the wide range of drugs available to treat a wide range of diseases and conditions. One of the biggest obstacles to the effective use of these medicines may seem trivial; people just do not consistently follow their treatment...
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by Alfred Poor | November 16, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
One of the most important aspects of independent living is mobility: the freedom to go where you want, when you want. Paraplegics and others with physical disabilities may be confined to wheelchairs, but not everyone has the strength and dexterity require to power a...
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by Alfred Poor | November 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearables face a vexing paradox. We want them to get smaller and smaller, yet smaller devices have less room available for buttons, touch pads, and other methods of controlling them. Solutions that work great for a desktop computer or tablet do not necessarily work...
by Alfred Poor | November 14, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Patients with prosthetic limbs or spinal cord damage don’t have a sense of touch from their limbs to provide feedback about their position or movements. We’ve written about a number of different research projects working on this problem, and here is...
by Alfred Poor | November 11, 2016 | General News, Health
As we get older, our bodies often don’t function as well as when we were younger. Our hearing may become impaired, and we become more fumble-fingered as our fine motor control degrades. Unfortunately, these two changes can combine to make life more difficult, as...
