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by Bruce Brown | July 12, 2018 | General News, Health
Falls are dangerous and costly, especially for the elderly. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year there are more than 29 million falls and 28,000 fall-related deaths among older Americans, resulting in more than $31 billion in...
by Bruce Brown | July 11, 2018 | General News, Health
Millennial parents are raising the first generation of children with broadly available healthcare-related artificial intelligence technologies. By the time the Generation Alpha children – those born after 2010 – are teenagers, AI-assisted medical care will...
by Bruce Brown | July 10, 2018 | General News, Medical
Telehealth and telemedicine aren’t magic pills that cure all U.S. healthcare ills, but recent advances in remote care delivery technologies are having a Field of Dreams moment. Funding cuts, doctor shortages, and hospital closures in rural America have created a...
by Bruce Brown | July 9, 2018 | General News, Medical
Statistics regarding the prevalence of depression in the U.S. are hardly uplifting. According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), one in six adults in the U.S. will have depression at some time in their lives. In any given year, approximately 16...
by Bruce Brown | July 6, 2018 | General News, Medical
The global increase in numbers of people with diabetes draws attention to new developments in closed-loop insulin delivery systems, aka the artificial pancreas. Even though the etiology differs between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, day-to-day management is generally the...
by Bruce Brown | July 5, 2018 | General News, Medical
Rehabilitation with smart robotics opens the door to a wide and promising range of structural and neuromechanical training. Smart robotics can do more than just assist and shape body and limb movement when the robotic system itself has input in training...
