by Bruce Brown | November 2, 2021 | Health, Medical
For many elderly people, their greatest fear is of an unexpected fall that will be the beginning of the end. According to April 2021 World Health Organization Falls data, falls are the second most common cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide. People in their...
by Bruce Brown | November 1, 2021 | Medical
Eko Devices continues to upgrade its cardiopulmonary digital health technology. We first wrote about Eko in 2018 when the Oakland, California-based company collaborated with the Mayo Clinic to develop a tool for physician’s use in screening for low ejection...
by Bruce Brown | October 28, 2021 | Health
It’s too easy to assume that Apple, Samsung, Fitbit, and Garmin have nailed down the entire smartwatch market, but those companies don’t own the space yet, especially when you consider extreme sports, extreme weather, and rough handling. Mobvoi recently...
by Bruce Brown | October 19, 2021 | Health
Much of the wellness and health technology we cover starts in a university or private lab when someone asks themselves a “What if we could…?” question. Some of the survivors of rigorous design and testing cycles then come to life as consumer health...
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by Bruce Brown | October 19, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Upper-leg amputees fitted with prosthetic legs expend an extraordinary amount of energy when walking, according to researchers at the University of Utah’s Bionic Engineering Lab. The engineers cited a study from The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery that...
