by William McCleary | November 16, 2022 | Medical
Following the FDA clearance of its Tempo Smart Button in September, Eli Lilly and Company is debuting a connected platform to aid in the self-management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The platform includes the said Bluetooth-connected device that detects, stores, and...
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by William McCleary | November 14, 2022 | Health
The percentage of preterm births in the United States has been on the rise for decades, and today around 1 in 10 infants who are delivered in the U.S. have gestation times of 37 weeks or fewer. These preterm infants have significantly higher mortality rates than...
by William McCleary | November 11, 2022 | Enabling Tech
If you’ve ever had a brain scan, or even just seen one on TV, you probably know that it’s kind of a big deal. Measuring brain activity usually involves functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) — that’s when the patient goes into the big humming...
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by William McCleary | November 9, 2022 | Enabling Tech
One might be tempted to believe that “one size fits all” applies to face masks, but most of us know that not to be true. And ill-fitting face masks can greatly increase the risk of both transmitting and contracting airborne diseases, as they allow aerosols...
by William McCleary | November 7, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Health
Can one’s fitness tracker gauge their risk of death over years? It seems so. That’s the overall finding from a study conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois that employed around 100,000 participants in the UK Biobank, a massive biomedical...
