New Fitness Tracker Fights Childhood Obesity [video]

by Amantha May | September 7, 2020 | General News, Health

There’s no shortage of fitness trackers out there, including trackers designed specifically for kids. Garmin, Fitbit, and Leapfrog offer trackers intended to make exercise fun by making it quantifiable: the same feature that attracts adults to wear their tracker as...

New Project Keeps Critically Ill Patients Connected to Family [video]

by Amantha May | September 4, 2020 | General News, Health

Between February 1, and May 23, 2020, 91% of all deaths from COVID-19 occurred in a medical center or nursing home, according to a recent study published in July. The authors of the study called on care facilities to make virtual technology available to keep all...

Measure Non-Contact Vital Signs with a Smartphone [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 2, 2020 | General News, Medical

We frequently write about technology components in health and medicine, including enabling technologies that support other devices or platforms. Biometrics sensors used with artificial intelligence machine learning crop up increasingly in studies that demonstrate...

Smart Pill for Collects Samples of Gut Biome [video]

by Amantha May | September 2, 2020 | General News, Medical

Most smart pills deliver medication, track medication compliance, or contain a microscopic camera for internal diagnostic imaging. Now, innovative smart pills can also take a sample of gut bacteria to help understand and diagnose illness. Researchers at Purdue...

Monitor Pregnancy at Home with New Handheld Ultrasound [video]

by Amantha May | August 31, 2020 | General News, Medical

Less than ten years ago, when I became a mom, the only way to obtain an ultrasound image of a baby in utero was to lie in a chilly room next to a 4-foot console while a tech slathered gel across your stomach and wanded your belly from all angles for at least 20...

New Smart EMG Patch Improves Spine Stimulation Treatment

by Amantha May | August 28, 2020 | General News, Medical

A group of researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a nanomembrane electrode array that streamlines the process of electromyography (EMG) recording used in spinal cord compression treatment. The Bio-Interfaced Translational Nanoengineering Group, which develops...