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by Bruce Brown | September 4, 2018 | General News
Medical applications for 3D printing often sound like science fiction, due to the technology’s novelty and the frequent appearance of bionic body parts in fiction. Additive manufacturing using ultraviolet light to harden polymer layers was invented in 1981 by...
by Bruce Brown | September 3, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Biosensor technology advances widen the range of health and medical applications. Improvements in sensor accuracy, composite sensors, wireless data transmission, power requirements, and user comfort extend wearable tech capabilities for continuous monitoring of...
by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2018 | General News, Health
A troublesome new study explores a potentially dangerous flaw in health tech user ratings, comments, and reviews. Timothy B. Plante from the Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont was the lead author of a study that found...
by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Melanoma is a skin cancer that kills nearly 10,000 people a year in the U.S. alone. As a result, it should not be a surprise that dermatology pops up often in our articles as a medical specialty that has been the target of digital health tech developments. We’ve...
by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2018 | General News
If we’re going to make robots, exoskeletons, smart prosthetics, and artificial skin, what’s to hold us back from giving them superhuman attributes? We’ve mentioned in the past that DARPA, the “invent the impossible” U.S. Defense Advanced...
