by Bruce Brown | July 31, 2018 | General News, Health
News stories about telemedicine applications and collaborations have become so common in the past year it could be easy to assume that digitally-enabled remote care became a thing only recently, but that’s not the case. The CDC gave telemedicine top billing in...
by Bruce Brown | July 30, 2018 | General News, Health
Safe water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and cleaning is an essential cornerstone of public health. Without clean water, people get sick. The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) works with other organizations such as the Pan American Health Organization...
by Bruce Brown | July 27, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
According to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), approximately 26 million Americans — more than 8% of the population — suffer from asthma. A chronic disease that affects the airways in the lungs, asthma’s...
by Bruce Brown | July 26, 2018 | General News, Medical
Text messaging, or texting, started with a “Merry Christmas” message sent to employees in 1992 by a Vodafone engineer, according to Mashable. After initial explosive growth, texting began to decline in 2009 and hit its nadir in 2012, BigFish PR wrote in...
by Bruce Brown | July 25, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
We’ve written about skin patch biosensors in a range of applications from UV exposure detection to atrial fibrillation monitoring. Researchers and medical device and supply companies investigating skin patch wearables focus on the advantages of the patch form...
