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by Bruce Brown | August 6, 2018 | General News, Medical
A perfect storm in health care heading toward the U.S. is building momentum. An aging population, horrifying increases in chronic illnesses due to poor lifestyle choices, plus a serious and growing shortage of physicians threaten the availability of quality care....
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by Alfred Poor | August 6, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Printed electronics are going to play an increasing role in wearable devices. The technology can be flexible, lightweight, and more durable than traditional rigid printed circuit boards. As we rely on devices to address health and medical issues, however, we need them...
by Bruce Brown | August 3, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
We usually write about new health technology that people wear, hold, carry, or use in their homes. We have noted studies that indicate self-driving cars will support aging at home and covered the Vigo headset monitor that tracks truck driver alertness. Despite the...
by Bruce Brown | August 2, 2018 | General News, Health
You won’t find “Smartphone Addiction” in the DSM-5, the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM changes slowly, but that doesn’t mean that excessive new media...
by Bruce Brown | August 1, 2018 | General News, Health
Two out of every three adults in the U.S. have higher than recommended blood pressure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Of the 150 million affected people, half have hypertension and the other half have prehypertension, which is...
by Bruce Brown | July 31, 2018 | General News, Health
News stories about telemedicine applications and collaborations have become so common in the past year it could be easy to assume that digitally-enabled remote care became a thing only recently, but that’s not the case. The CDC gave telemedicine top billing in...
