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by Bruce Brown | January 29, 2020 | Health
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0261/0865/7724/files/ST1_wristcomputer_16_9_Moments.mp4?3157 Wristbands take the prize as the most common new tech medical and health wearable form factor. We’ve written about scads of single-purpose and multifunction wristbands...
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by Bruce Brown | January 28, 2020 | Medical
If wearables’ announcements were Bingo games with chips for hot topics, Denver-based BioIntellisense just won the evening’s $500 grand prize. The company’s cost-effective, Data-as-as-Service (DaaS) platform’s medical-grade, single-use,...
by Bruce Brown | January 27, 2020 | Medical
The incidence of pregnancy-related maternal death in the United States has more than doubled from 7.2 per 100,000 live births in 1987 to 16.9 per 100,000 in 2016. According to NPR and ProPublica, American mothers die of pregnancy-related complications more than in any...
by Bruce Brown | January 24, 2020 | Health
As of 2016, 93.3 million U.S. adults were obese, according to the CDC. That number equals 39.8% of Americans who are more prone than non-obese adults to heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, and some forms of cancer. Those conditions and diseases, taken as a group,...
by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2020 | Medical
Today’s headlines announce the latest confirmed global numbers of cases and deaths of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. We won’t know the outcome of nCoV for months, possibly years. However, we do know that overdose deaths from opioids in the U.S. increased...
