by Bruce Brown | May 5, 2022 | Health
Hear.com is an online hearing care company. The enterprise sells brand name hearing aids along with its own Horizon hearing aid line. Hear.com sells hearing aids via traditional audiologist office partners and directly via tele-audiology appointments with licensed...
by Bruce Brown | May 3, 2022 | Medical
Choosing peritoneal dialysis (PD) instead of hemodialysis is an option for some people with kidney failure. Hemodialysis involves removing, filtering, and then replacing a patient’s blood. Patients usually go to hospitals or healthcare centers for hemodialysis...
by Bruce Brown | May 2, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Wearable sensor developers may soon be thanking University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) engineers. A team from the University’s Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center developed a relatively faster and cheaper way to produce sensor prototypes than the common...
by Bruce Brown | April 28, 2022 | Medical
Preemptive care can improve overall healthcare outcomes and reduce costs for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Nearly 6 million people in the U.S. have heart failure and it’s the most common reason for hospitalization for people age 65 and older,...
by Bruce Brown | April 26, 2022 | Health
Have you ever heard the pop of a severe ankle sprain, even if it wasn’t your own ankle? Sprains can be painful, serious injuries. Simple bone fractures usually heal in about six weeks, but severely sprained ligaments can take six months or even longer to heal...