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by Bruce Brown | January 24, 2017 | General News, Medical
Sometimes the same technology designed to help people extracts a high cost. It has long been established that when stroke or Parkinson’s Disease patients walk, they use more energy than healthy individuals: as much as 70 percent more. In the last 10 years,...
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by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2017 | General News, Medical
As wearable, carryable, and implantable Health Tech devices develop individually and in the aggregate, many observers look beyond U.S. and European early-adopter tech-savvy markets to areas in the world with low resources. These remote locations have few connections...
by Bruce Brown | January 20, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Now that wearable tech devices for fitness and health are creeping out of infancy into toddlerhood, we’re likely to see more partnerships, brand expansions, and direction changes. New entrants in both markets may stop thinking they have to reinvent the whole...
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by Bruce Brown | January 19, 2017 | General News, Medical
When hearts begin to fail, cardiologists often give the hearts a chance to keep working with ventricular assist devices. Threats of blood clots and infections persist because current devices have direct contact with blood, requiring that patients take anticoagulants...
by Bruce Brown | January 18, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
As exoskeleton technology advances, the life-changing potential for specific Health Tech applications grows. We’ve written about exoskeleton tech often, most recently when Hyundai introduced three exoskeleton robots under development to the world and last year...
