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by Bruce Brown | July 16, 2020 | Health
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in the U.S. There were more than 200,000 new cases of prostate cancer in 2017, the latest year with available data from the CDC. The incidence of surgery for prostate cancer has dropped during the past decade, from...
by Bruce Brown | July 15, 2020 | Health
Despite pandemic-related supply chain issues, wearables shipments worldwide grew 29.7% year over year during the first quarter of 2020 according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Smartwatch and regular watch numbers declined, but wristband...
by Bruce Brown | July 14, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Smart clothing, smart fabrics, and smart yarns have great potential for a wide range of wearable applications. If your shirt can track vital signs data and your pants can monitor your workouts, you don’t need separate wearable devices. We’ve written in the...
by Bruce Brown | July 13, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Scientists at the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed a microrobot that theoretically can deliver drugs to specific locations in the human body via the circulatory system. To date, the engineers have tested the...
by Bruce Brown | July 2, 2020 | Medical
We’ve written about telehealth and telemedicine numerous times. Most examples of telemedicine we cover involve a subset of patients, businesses, or regions. For example, in 2018, we wrote about Penn Medicine’s Brain Tumor Center’s telemedicine second...
