by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2016 | General News, Medical
As many parents of small children can tell you, hand a tablet or smartphone to a cranky kid and let them watch a video or play with an app to calm them down. As it turns out, there may be a medical application for this same solution. Pediatric surgery typically...
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by Bruce Brown | August 29, 2016 | General News, Health
Sleep insufficiency hasn’t gone away, no matter how much we write about it. We’ve covered Health Tech that purports to help with sleep by controlling brainwaves, with smart earplugs, by cutting down on social media use, by reducing blue light exposure,...
by Bruce Brown | August 26, 2016 | General News, Health
Wearable tech developments for fitness and health applications sparked a wave of wristbands, headbands, necklaces and lanyards, pins and brooches, and belt packs in the past few years. Starting with step counters and thermometers, an ever-wider variety of biosensors...
by Bruce Brown | August 25, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
Previously we’ve covered medical community interest in telemedicine, and more recently, the AMA telemedicine recommended guidelines. Turning to the other end of the stethoscope, most patients support telemedicine and the use of newer technologies for medical...
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by Bruce Brown | August 24, 2016 | General News, Health
If you’ve ever had to call 9-1-1 in an emergency, most likely it was an unexpected situation. Often you don’t know your precise location. Most people are not accustomed to dealing with emergency situations. Conveying the details of the emergency and the...
