by Bruce Brown | August 21, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Robotics in various forms has multiple applications in medicine and healthcare. Point of view (POV) is a helpful starting point in assessing potential uses for robotics. For example when a physician uses a workstation to insert a stent using robotic arms in a remote...
by Bruce Brown | August 20, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
The devastating opioid addiction crisis continues to ruin American lives, including 115 people who die every day after overdosing according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Pharmaceutical companies traditionally seek drug-centric painkillers that also...
by Bruce Brown | August 17, 2018 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
The amount of data from global biomedical research is massive and growing fast. Big Data should probably be re-named “Bigger Data.” The National Center for Biotechnology Information reported recently that the increased data from genomics sequencing...
by Bruce Brown | August 16, 2018 | General News, Medical
Subjective reporting about healthy behaviors results in data that are shaky at best and outright wrong and misleading in the worst cases. A metastudy of medical adherence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published in 2014 found patient noncompliance...
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by Bruce Brown | August 15, 2018 | General News, Medical
Each year approximately 15 million babies worldwide are born preterm, according to the World Health Organization. Defined as birth before completing 37 weeks of gestation, preterm birth and the associated complications are the leading cause of death among children...
