by Bruce Brown | May 23, 2017 | General News, Health
Migraine headaches are a chronic neurological disease. Migraines affect 38 million men, women, and children in the U.S. and about 1 billion people worldwide, or about 12% of the population, according to the Migraine Research Foundation. There is no cure for migraines,...
by Bruce Brown | May 22, 2017 | General News, Health
The number of seniors in the U.S. continues to increase, according to research and a report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. By 2030, the number of people 50-and-over is projected to be 132 million, or about 20 percent of the population....
by Bruce Brown | May 19, 2017 | General News, Health
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 3 billion people on earth cook with fire. They burn wood, coal, crop waste, or animal dung to prepare meals. However, toxic cooking fumes are responsible for more deaths than tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV...
by Bruce Brown | May 18, 2017 | General News, Health
We’ve written about several “smart shirts” in the past. After we saw them at CES 2017, we covered Xenoma’s eSkin with 14 motion sensors and XYZLife’s shirt with motion and heart rate sensors. We also wrote about HealthWatch’s hWear...
by Bruce Brown | May 17, 2017 | General News, Health
The Ava Fertility Tracker wristband and mobile app combination is adding pregnancy monitoring features to the mobile app. We originally wrote about Ava in July 2016. Ava’s accuracy in detecting the 5.3 most fertile days of a woman’s cycle was...