Remote Wearable System Monitors COVID-19 Patient Vital Signs

by Amantha May | August 17, 2020 | General News, Medical

A wearable monitoring system that helps reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 in hospitals and care facilities is now available in the United States. The system, designed specifically for the COVID-19 crisis by VivaLNK, has been used successfully in 15 hospitals in...

TraceSafe Provides Easy Contact Tracing [video]

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

Early this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread across Asia, one company made a fast pivot to provide a solution that could help to flatten the curve. Drawing on monitoring technology initially used in maternity wards and nursing homes, TraceSafe developed a...

High-Tech Glasses Help the Visually Impaired [video]

by Amantha May | August 12, 2020 | General News, Health

The Canadian-based company eSight Corp introduced its first-generation, high-tech vision enhancement glasses in 2013. The original eSight, which improved both close-up and distance vision for the visually impaired, was followed by eSight 2 in 2015 and eSight 3 in...

Robot, Heal Thyself! Penn State Made It Happen [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

C3PO and R2D2 notwithstanding, not all robots are hard. We’ve written about soft robots before, usually in devices that physically contact humans or when the robots function as muscle replacements. For example, in 2019, we wrote about work at Purdue on 3D...

Diabetic Patients May Benefit from the Pandemic

by Amantha May | August 10, 2020 | General News, Health

Shelter-in-place orders have created their share of problems for everyone, but in some cases, response to the COVID-19 pandemic has had a positive effect. According to an analysis of recent data from Diabits, a diabetes management app, staying home last spring may...

Quick Test Detects Age-Related Eye Disease Early [video]

by Amantha May | August 7, 2020 | General News, Medical

By 2030, one in five United States residents will be retirement age, meaning that age-related illness will increasingly account for substantial healthcare costs. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the number one cause of severe, permanent vision loss in people...