Wearable Analyzes Sweat Biometrics [video]

by Alfred Poor | August 20, 2019 | General News, Health

We’ve written about sweat sensors many times in the past. Researchers have good reasons to search for biometric data from sweat; the material is readily available and does not require invasive procedures to acquire. In addition to the familiar salts, sweat...

VR Effective in Pain Management [video]

by Alfred Poor | August 16, 2019 | General News

We have covered a lot of pain management programs that seek alternatives to pharmaceuticals. There is a lot of interest in such solutions these days, especially in light of the opioid abuse epidemic. A study by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center examined the...

AI Infers Personalized Treatment [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 2, 2019 | General News, Medical

Big data, machine learning, and precision medicine come together with GNS Healthcare’s Causal Machine Learning. In the GNS model, big data provides the means, machine learning is the method, and precision medicine is the goal. The first two elements are...

Health eHeart Study Gathers Real-World Heart Rate Data

by Alice Williams | July 12, 2019 | General News, Medical

We live in a world obsessed with data. Devices grow continually smarter, capturing vast amounts of information about every conceivable topic: online behaviors, consumer preferences, even individual sleep patterns. As access to this tantalizing human data has grown, so...

Suicidal Ideation and Behavior Risk Assessment Tool

by Bruce Brown | June 19, 2019 | General News, Health, Medical

Suicide is the second most frequent cause of death among people aged 10 to 34 in the U.S. and the fourth most frequent cause of death for people between the ages of 34 and 54, according to the CDC. We have written about programs that use AI to help children make wiser...

Sweat Sensor Enables Noninvasive Health Monitoring

by Bruce Brown | March 26, 2019 | General News, Health, Medical

In biometric terms, sweat may soon be the new black. Blood testing remains the current gold standard for biometric measurement, but it is invasive, at times awkward or difficult, and sometimes painful. The greatest downside from a single blood draw, however, is the...