![Wearable Vibration Sensor Enables Many Applications [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/11/Wearable-microchips-with-video-600x273.png?resize=600%2C273)
by Bruce Brown | November 29, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable health tech takes a giant step further with stretchable devices that can attach to the skin. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Colorado Boulder, in conjunction with other institutions, have developed a tiny, soft, wearable...
by Alfred Poor | November 29, 2016 | General News, Medical
One of the most useful types of technology in medicine is the kind that lets doctors look inside the human body. X-rays images are one of the most familiar, but ultrasound and other methods are also used. There is growing interest in “terahertz” imaging...
![Take Control of Your Natural Stress Response [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/12/Lief-with-video-600x278.png?resize=600%2C278)
by Bruce Brown | November 28, 2016 | General News, Health
A little bit of stress can be good for us. Performance stress or stress in the face of perceived threats lead to action, sometimes even life-saving, by increasing the heart rate and breathing, tensing muscles, and improving blood flow to the brain. Our immune...
![Tablet-Based Hearing Test [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/12/Shoebox-audiometer.jpg?resize=505%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | November 28, 2016 | General News, Medical
Hearing loss can affect people of all ages. For the elderly, it can lead to social isolation and frustration with trying to communicate. For children, it can cause a serious barrier to learning, especially in a classroom setting. As a result, it is important that...
![Wearable Aims to Silence Snoring [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/11/Anti-Snoring-Wearable-with-video-600x278.jpg?resize=600%2C278)
by Bruce Brown | November 25, 2016 | General News, Health
Emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and biosensors that respond to heat, blood content, breath, and sweat can be as fascinating as they are forward-looking. Occasionally, however, we come across a practical, wearable health tech product that relates...
![Low Cost Synthetic Muscle from Nylon Fibers [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/11/MIT-synthetic-muscle-with-video-600x276.png?resize=600%2C276)
by Bruce Brown | November 24, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Nylon fiber has a new powerful new application; it can be used to make artificial muscle fibers, according to the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Muscles expand and contract and previous artificial muscles do that as well. Real muscles, however, also bend,...
