![Virtual Reality Aids Cancer Patients [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/03/VR-with-chemo.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2017 | General News, Health
Modern medicine works miracles. Diseases that used to kill thousands and thousands of people every year have all but disappeared from the planet. Other diseases that used to be a certain death sentence now can be cured, or at least their progress can be slowed. Cancer...
![Pain-free, Non-invasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/03/sugarBEAT-with-video-600x270.png?resize=600%2C270)
by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2017 | General News, Health
Approximately 1.6 billion people in the world have diabetes or prediabetes, according to World Health Organization figures. Of that immense number, only 1 in 20 of those have Type 1, the autoimmune form of the disease. The remainder of diabetics and virtually all...
by Alfred Poor | March 7, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health
As we’ve been saying, the trajectory for wearable Health Tech devices is going to be away from the products limited to fitness tracking, and toward more health and medical measurements that will be helpful in diagnosing illness in the early stages when treatment...
![Monitor How Much Your Baby Has Nursed [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/03/Momsense-with-Video-600x273.png?resize=600%2C273)
by Bruce Brown | March 6, 2017 | General News, Health
The World Health Organization and other groups recommend breastfeeding exclusively for a baby’s first six months and continued breastfeeding with other food for 12 to 24 months (or however long the mother and baby wish to continue). According to a study...
by Bruce Brown | March 6, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
The rate of new cases of diabetes may have plateaued, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, 35 percent of Americans live with diabetes (29 million) or prediabetes (86 million), making the disease a continuing major health threat....
![New Approach to Brain Control of Robots [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/03/MIT-brain-robot-interface.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Scientists have studied ways to interface a human brain with a robotic device. One goal is to let a person control a robotic prosthetic limb using his or her mind. It’s a complex problem that is difficult to solve. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and...
