Massively Parallel Interface Reconnects Brain [video]

by Alfred Poor | July 11, 2017 | General News, Medical

The human brain is an amazing thing, but when it doesn’t work when it gets disconnected from other parts of the body. If it can’t communicate with the eyes, a person goes blind. When it loses contact with the ears, the person goes deaf. And if the...

Fashionable Masks Filter Pollution, Bacteria, and Viruses [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 10, 2017 | General News, Health

Air pollution, both indoor and outdoor, is a major environment-related health threat, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO cites an estimated 1.3 million annual deaths worldwide that are attributable to urban outdoor air pollution. We’re written...

Health Self-Monitoring Market Set for Rapid Growth

by Alfred Poor | July 10, 2017 | General News, Health

Part of the digital health revolution is the increasing role that individuals take in managing their own healthcare. The “quantified self” generates mountains of data that can be used by professionals to detect illness and track progress, but this same...

Nokia Health Mate App Monitors Multiple Biometrics

by Bruce Brown | July 7, 2017 | General News, Health

Nokia has joined the biometric monitoring platform club. The Finish technology and communications giant recently dropped the Withings brand name from its line of wearable health tech devices. Now Nokia is moving forward to develop and market biometric monitoring...

Wearable MRI Under Development [video]

by Alfred Poor | July 7, 2017 | General News, Medical

If you’ve never had the pleasure of an MRI scan, as a veteran of several sessions, let me tell you what it’s like. They put you on a platform that slides you into the heart of a giant metal donut, where you have to lie perfectly still. During the scan, it...

Device Stimulates the Brain for Mental Health Treatments [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 6, 2017 | General News, Medical

Brain stimulation with wearable consumer or medical devices offers a wide range of possible helpful effects. We’ve looked at Thync Relax to alter moods, research at the University of Washington using direct brain stimulation to help people with spinal cord...