by Amantha May | September 16, 2020 | General News, Medical
The term “health tech” is an umbrella term that encompasses a vast spectrum of technologies ranging from personal health trackers to off-road wheelchairs to living, 3D printed human tissue. Digital therapeutics, an important category that falls under the...
by Amantha May | September 14, 2020 | General News, Health
Oral birth control pills are 99% effective at preventing an unwanted pregnancy… only if used perfectly without missing a single dose. But people aren’t perfect, and most women who use oral birth control miss a dose once in a while, so the pill has a 9% failure...
by Amantha May | September 11, 2020 | General News, Medical
Parents of children with Type 1 diabetes face the extraordinary challenge of monitoring their child’s blood glucose levels day and night. A national clinical trial has demonstrated that an artificial pancreas system, first developed at the University of Virginia, does...
by Amantha May | September 9, 2020 | General News, Medical
Socioeconomic determinants of health (SDH) — such as gender, race, and household income — have an impact on who gets infected by COVID-19, who becomes very sick from the disease, and who requires the highest level of life-saving interventions. Predicting...
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by Amantha May | September 7, 2020 | General News, Health
There’s no shortage of fitness trackers out there, including trackers designed specifically for kids. Garmin, Fitbit, and Leapfrog offer trackers intended to make exercise fun by making it quantifiable: the same feature that attracts adults to wear their tracker as...
