by Bruce Brown | January 21, 2022 | Health
Smart rings may be the ultimate in unobtrusive digital health wearables. Led by the Apple Watch, smart watches with vital sign sensors draw more news coverage than rings today, but we’re enthusiastically watching smart ring developments. In past newsletters, for...
by Bruce Brown | January 18, 2022 | Health
San Jose, California-based Eargo, Inc. launched its latest generation in-canal hearing aids at CES 2022 in Las Vegas. The company’s flagship Eargo 6 hearing aids add new features and enhance aspects of the previous generation Eargo 5 aids (which are still...
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by Bruce Brown | January 17, 2022 | Health
Imagine pausing during a walk and when you try to take the next step, your legs and feet don’t move, as if they are encased in boxes of cement. It’s called gait-freeze, a condition that is commonly associated with Parkinson’s Disease. A study in...
by Bruce Brown | January 13, 2022 | Health
Is there an assistive walker in your future (or in your life now)? The only time I’ve used a walker (so far) was a short period following total hip replacement surgery. My experience lasted for just a few days and the walker was more of a backup then a...
by Bruce Brown | January 11, 2022 | Health
Listen up! Two European hearing technology companies recently announced a new type of hearable. Mimi Hearing Technology is a Berlin-based company that creates digital healthcare hearing tests and and sound personalization profiles based on the tests....
