by Bruce Brown | June 9, 2022 | Health
Big box technology retailer Best Buy certainly appears to be “in it to win it.” In 2016, Alfred Poor covered GreatCall’s senior-friendly smartphones and nationwide GreatCall 5Star 24/7 emergency service for older users. In 2018 Best Buy acquired...
by Bruce Brown | June 7, 2022 | Medical
After hip surgery, patient compliance with home-based physical rehab prescriptions can speed recovery and improve mobility. Most patients start physical therapy during the first week after discharge from the hospital and attend two sessions a week for three to six...
by Bruce Brown | June 6, 2022 | Health
In 2019, I wrote about Flow Neuroscience’s Flow, an app developed to combat depression through engagement. In that article I also mentioned Tracy Crouch, Britain’s first Minister of Loneliness, who was appointed in 2018. The current Minister for Civil...
by Bruce Brown | June 2, 2022 | Health
Before COVID-19, I don’t remember reading about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA). After the nearly two and half years of pandemic response, EUA is now common parlance in the health tech industry. The FDA...
by Bruce Brown | May 31, 2022 | Medical
Are you ready for some good news? Let’s start with a blunt reality. “We know very little about the brain,” writer Vivian Lam quoted Neurosurgery Professor Lu Chen in Stanford Medicine’s Scope blog. “We are still in need of an understanding of the...