by Bruce Brown | November 21, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
It’s neither our practice nor our inclination to write about health tech developers who abandon projects or new tech attempts that fail. Because Google’s health tech division Verily and Novartis’ Alcon eye-care division are the primary participants...
by Bruce Brown | November 20, 2018 | General News, Medical
Nearly three million Americans have glaucoma, according to the CDC. The disease is one of the most common causes of blindness. When glaucoma is detected, the disease progression can be slowed so that the patient won’t lose any more vision. There are no early...
by Bruce Brown | November 19, 2018 | General News, Health
Diabetes cuts a wide swath across the U.S. population and is an inviting opportunity for health tech development. Unlike many cancers and neurological diseases, the biological mechanisms involved in both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are relatively well-understood, which...
by Bruce Brown | November 16, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable health tech devices spur the search for new types of power sources. We’ve written about flexible batteries that can be cut into shapes from Nanyang Technological University, stretchable batteries embedded in garments developed at Binghamton University,...
by Bruce Brown | November 15, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
The health tech wearables that we write about typically combine one or more integrated biosensors with battery-powered wireless transmitters to send biometric data elsewhere to be stored and analyzed, usually to a smartphone. Such devices come in a myriad of form...
