AI App Describes the World to Visually Impaired [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2018 | General News, Health

Profound visual impairment in our increasingly visual world disenfranchises blind or partially sighted people. According to a statistic from the U.K.’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), sight loss costs the country nearly $6 billion annually due...

Software App Accurately Diagnoses Respiratory Disease [video]

by Kimberly Houston | January 23, 2018 | General News, Medical

Many disorders can affect the lungs and compromise a person’s ability to breath properly: asthma, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), pneumonia, emphysema, bronchitis, and pulmonary fibrosis, among others. Many millions of emergency room and ambulatory care...

New Neurostim Wearables Prevent and Mitigate Migraines [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 22, 2018 | General News, Health

People who suffer from migraine headaches have two new devices to help. As we’ve noted before, approximately one-quarter of all U.S. households include a migraine sufferer. More than 12% of the population have migraines. Many people can detect an incipient...

Smart Glasses Enhance Pennsylvania Student’s Vision

by Bruce Brown | January 19, 2018 | General News, Health

Smart glasses such as the much-maligned Google Glass suffered a false start in the consumer market that tarnished the concept temporarily. When developers who assumed the highest and best use of augmented or enhanced reality (AR or ER)  was to give people a way to...

Wearable ECG Gets the Nod from FDA

by Bruce Brown | January 18, 2018 | General News, Health

FDA approval and clearance can take time, due to the multiple stages involved. We wrote about Biotricity’s Bioflux wearable ECG system in the past when one of its components was cleared by the FDA in 2016. Late in 2017, Biotricty announced it had passed the...

Extended Wear Sensor Patch Receives 5th FDA Clearance

by Kimberly Houston | January 18, 2018 | General News, Medical

Medical grade biosensors that allow remote measuring of important diagnostics in hospital settings make patient stays more comfortable and help doctors improve care. They also reduce costs by minimizing manual hospital checks. Now an extended wear version of a...