Implants for Restoring Vision

by Bruce Brown | January 22, 2016 | General News, Medical

My mother called me in Connecticut one morning in the late 1990s to tell me she was scared because when she looked in the mirror that morning she couldn’t see her face. In the center of her vision was a blurry dark mass. That was the beginning of her descent...

CES 2016: Wireless Sensor Platform for Medical Research

by Alfred Poor | January 22, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

Wireless wearable sensors are going to transform the world of health and medicine by delivering useful data about our bodies to intelligent systems that will watch out for early signs of problems. And that future has become a lot closer, thanks to a new system by...

Nano Sensors Sniff Gastric Cancer

by Bruce Brown | January 21, 2016 | General News, Medical

Perhaps you’ve read that dogs can be trained to detect cancer. Various tumors produce specific alkalines and smelly compounds that dogs — with their ability to discriminate odors as discrete as possibly parts per trillion — can detect the cancer from...

CES 2016: Mobile Sensor Tracks Air Quality

by Alfred Poor | January 21, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health

Part of modern living, especially in urban areas, is the decreased air quality. This can impact our daily lives in different ways. Infants and the elderly are more susceptible to the ill effects of air pollution than adults. Those who exert themselves physically...

Constant ECG Monitoring in a T-Shirt [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 20, 2016 | General News, Health

Have you been to the ER lately? Or gone for a physical or checkup where someone said, “Let’s get you hooked up”? I was in the ER for a minor incident recently (it turned out to be no big deal, but all were concerned) and because I was uncomfortable...

CES 2016: Your Breath Tells Tale of Fat Burning [video]

by Alfred Poor | January 20, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health

According to Gallup, 45% of people in the U.S. are concerned about their weight. One of the most commonly-used tools in the Battle of the Bulge is the lowly bathroom weight scale. The problem with these devices is that your weight can fluctuate a lot from one day to...