by Alfred Poor | June 15, 2018 | General News, Medical
According to the website Breastcancer.org, one in 12 women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. More than 40,000 women will die from the disease in the U.S. in 2018. The cost of treating breast cancer is expect to reach more than $20 billion a...
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by Bruce Brown | June 14, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
It’s still early days for responsive living environments. Amazon Alexa and other voice-activated personal assistants open the door for access to information, services, assistance, and extended independence for the elderly and disabled. People unable to use...
by Alfred Poor | June 14, 2018 | General News, Medical
According to the Centers for Disease Control, opioid overdoses resulted in more than 64,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2016. This national health crisis was the motivation behind the “Opioid Challenge” launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This...
by Bruce Brown | June 13, 2018 | General News, Health
Wearables that measure blood pressure without bulky upper arm cuffs and attached electronics are on the way. The devices will be a boon to people with irregular heartbeats and to others for whom continuous monitoring is more useful than occasional one-time readings....
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by Alfred Poor | June 13, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
0 Imagine that a doctor knew everything about how your body worked: what makes it sick, what makes it better, what keeps it healthy. Diagnosing and treating your illnesses would be far more effective because treatments would be designed precisely for you. Now imagine...
by Bruce Brown | June 12, 2018 | General News, Health
Many new health tech devices employ new or unconventional sensor technologies to track biometrics. Validating a new measurement device against the current gold standard for the given metric is health tech grail. We’ve written about a range of blood pressure...
