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by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2018 | General News, Health
Profound visual impairment in our increasingly visual world disenfranchises blind or partially sighted people. According to a statistic from the U.K.’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), sight loss costs the country nearly $6 billion annually due...
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by Bruce Brown | January 22, 2018 | General News, Health
People who suffer from migraine headaches have two new devices to help. As we’ve noted before, approximately one-quarter of all U.S. households include a migraine sufferer. More than 12% of the population have migraines. Many people can detect an incipient...
by Bruce Brown | January 19, 2018 | General News, Health
Smart glasses such as the much-maligned Google Glass suffered a false start in the consumer market that tarnished the concept temporarily. When developers who assumed the highest and best use of augmented or enhanced reality (AR or ER) was to give people a way to...
by Bruce Brown | January 18, 2018 | General News, Health
FDA approval and clearance can take time, due to the multiple stages involved. We wrote about Biotricity’s Bioflux wearable ECG system in the past when one of its components was cleared by the FDA in 2016. Late in 2017, Biotricty announced it had passed the...
by Bruce Brown | January 17, 2018 | General News, Medical
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest diseases. In 2016, 1.7 million people worldwide died of causes related to TB and 10.4 million people became sick with the disease. In that same year, according to the CDC, the 9,272 cases of TB in the U.S. were the lowest...
