Smart Cycling Helmet Calls for Help

Smart Cycling Helmet Calls for Help

Smart helmets can protect against injury, track locations, monitor for impact, and more. We wrote about a football helmet that monitors impact severity that could result in traumatic brain injury and a connected motorcycle helmet light that detects falls and...
Flow Headset Seeks NHS Nod for Depression

Flow Headset Seeks NHS Nod for Depression

Depression is a primary cause of disability globally, according to the World Health Organization, which tallies more than 300 million people suffering from depression worldwide. For a person with clinical depression, the search for an effective pharmaceutical solution...
3D-Printed Models Help Surgeons Plan

3D-Printed Models Help Surgeons Plan

In the summer of 1985, Alfred Poor and I tested and reviewed the first HP LaserJet printer for the IBM PC. I’m sure neither of us suspected that 34 years later – or ever – we’d write about HP printers turning out 3D color renderings of human...
App-Driven EStim Controls Acute Migraines

App-Driven EStim Controls Acute Migraines

Migraine is a neurological disease that affects 12% of the population, worldwide according to the Migraine Research Foundation. Pharmaceutical treatments for migraine range from over-the-counter acetaminophen to antidepressants. We’ve written several times about...
FDA Gives the Nod for AliveCor’s 6-Lead ECG

FDA Gives the Nod for AliveCor’s 6-Lead ECG

Personal electrocardiogram (ECG) devices provide a view of the heart to help patients and physicians detect arrhythmia and other conditions. With ECGs, the more information the better, which translates to viewing the heart’s electrical activity from a greater...