Wearable Assesses Real-Time Occupational Air Quality

Wearable Assesses Real-Time Occupational Air Quality

Breathing harmful chemicals, vapors, or particles is never a great idea, but certain occupations frequently put workers in air-quality harm’s way. Firefighters, for example, routinely enter areas with unknown and potentially dangerous substances in the air....
Remote Tremor Monitoring for Parkinson’s Disease

Remote Tremor Monitoring for Parkinson’s Disease

Neurologists monitor Parkinson’s Disease patient tremors with an in-office task-based Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) to manage and treat the progressive disease. Unfortunately, as is the case with blood pressure measurements and other variable...
8th Grade Student Invents Diabetic Aid [video]

8th Grade Student Invents Diabetic Aid [video]

People with diabetes have to test their blood glucose levels multiple times a day so that they know how much insulin they need to inject. Patients insert test strips into a blood glucose meter and apply a tiny finger-prick blood sample. When people are first diagnosed...
Most U.S. Patients Bullish on Health Tech

Most U.S. Patients Bullish on Health Tech

The outlook in the U.S. for the digital health and medical tech industry continues to shine ever brighter. Hospital executives, health insurance leaders, physicians, and patients respond with increasingly positive opinions of health tech in surveys and studies....