by Bruce Brown | March 18, 2021 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Progressive ocular diseases such as glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are sneaky. The diseases often start with minimal effect and advance unnoticed until causing significant and irreparable damage. Early treatment is highly desirable with ocular...
by Bruce Brown | March 17, 2021 | Health
International Data Corporation (IDC) recently published its Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker for the last quarter of 2020. The report also summarized global wearables shipment data for the full year. Despite COVID-19, and due in part to the pandemic, global...
by Bruce Brown | March 16, 2021 | Health
Nearly every day brings new announcements or reports of studies about remote patient management (RPM). The COVID-19 pandemic boosted the pace of RPM adoption, but the requisite technologies were already in place. According to a recent survey by VivaLNK, RPM will be...
by Bruce Brown | March 15, 2021 | Medical
Retinal implants hold great promise for people with severe vision impairment including blindness. We’ve covered several retinal implant technology developments. For example, Oxford University’s Department of Chemistry created biological synthetic soft...
by Bruce Brown | March 12, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Sweat suffers a bad rap, but Gatorade may change sweat’s status with a new biomarker patch. We’ve written many times about sweat’s potential as a source of medical biomarkers. Most recently we covered UK startup Sweati’s ongoing development of...