by William McCleary | December 2, 2022 | Medical
Nearly half of them want it, in any case. The recent Diabetes Care Study shows that 47% of respondents — who have type 2 diabetes — say that they would be more consistent with their glucose testing if they knew the results were going directly to their healthcare...
by William McCleary | November 30, 2022 | Health, Medical
Babylon Health is getting behind Fitbits in a big way. The London-based digital-first healthcare provider is giving the popular activity trackers to a select number of its around 20 million members in 15 countries. While Babylon hasn’t laid out the criteria for...
by William McCleary | November 28, 2022 | Medical
The line between wearable activity trackers and clinical-grade health monitors seems to be getting blurrier by the day. A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University shows that consumer activity-tracking wearables may support clinical care. The...
by William McCleary | November 25, 2022 | Enabling Tech
It acts like a brain and feels like skin. And unlike smartwatches, this flexible device doesn’t need to send the data that it collects to another device for analysis. Instead, this recently developed AI chip from researchers at the University of Chicago’s...
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by William McCleary | November 23, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Medical
While they’ve long been the stuff of sci-fi flicks — from Aliens and Avatar to Iron Man and Robocop, just to name a few — exoskeletons are increasingly prevalent in the real world. And they serve especially well in two areas: strokes and aging. According to the...
