New Standards on the Way to Guide Digital Therapeutics

by Amantha May | September 16, 2020 | General News, Medical

The term “health tech” is an umbrella term that encompasses a vast spectrum of technologies ranging from personal health trackers to off-road wheelchairs to living, 3D printed human tissue. Digital therapeutics, an important category that falls under the...

New Smart Case Prevents Missed Doses for Birth Control

by Amantha May | September 14, 2020 | General News, Health

Oral birth control pills are 99% effective at preventing an unwanted pregnancy… only if used perfectly without missing a single dose. But people aren’t perfect, and most women who use oral birth control miss a dose once in a while, so the pill has a 9% failure...

New Device Helps Control Childhood Diabetes

by Amantha May | September 11, 2020 | General News, Medical

Parents of children with Type 1 diabetes face the extraordinary challenge of monitoring their child’s blood glucose levels day and night. A national clinical trial has demonstrated that an artificial pancreas system, first developed at the University of Virginia, does...

Artificial Intelligence Predicts COVID-19 Hospital Admissions

by Amantha May | September 9, 2020 | General News, Medical

Socioeconomic determinants of health (SDH) — such as gender, race, and household income — have an impact on who gets infected by COVID-19, who becomes very sick from the disease, and who requires the highest level of life-saving interventions. Predicting...

Your Phone Can Tell If You Have Diabetes [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 8, 2020 | General News, Health

The scourge of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) continues to blind, maim, and cause premature death for a growing number of people worldwide. From 2000 to 2016, diabetes caused a 5% increase in premature mortality, according to the World Health Organization. During that period,...

Lift Tools All Day with New Passive Exoskeleton [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 7, 2020 | General News, Health

Exoskeletons play increasingly important roles in prosthetics, rehabilitation, and industrial worker augmentation and assistance. Last year FutureWise predicted exoskeletons would become a $4 billion industry by the end of 2026. In June, we wrote about...