Smart Lighting Aims to Improve Your Sleep [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 28, 2019 | Health

Interest in insufficient sleep has soared in recent years as people of all ages spend more time looking at digital device screens. New understandings of risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease including insufficient sleep have spurred increases in brain research,...

Self-Regulating Fabric Reacts to Body Temperature

by Bruce Brown | February 25, 2019 | Health

What if we could drop the need for layered clothing to add or shed when the air temperature changes? We write fairly often about developments in smart clothing with embedded biometric sensors in which the garments play a literally supporting role as transport...

FDA OKs App-Recommended Insulin Dosage

by Bruce Brown | February 21, 2019 | Health

Advances in diabetes management is always big news due to the prevalence of the disease. The CDC’s latest (2017) report states that 30.2 million U.S. adults had diabetes, including 7.2 million, who were unaware of having the disease or not getting treatment. The...

Interwoven Garment with 12-Lead ECG and More [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 14, 2019 | Health

Wearable with ECGs take home health monitoring further than most consumers would have deemed likely so soon after the heath tech began to emerge from fitness trackers. We’ve written about Cambridge Heartwear’s Heartsense 3-lead ECG device. We also covered...

What Did You Miss at CES 2019?

by Alfred Poor | February 12, 2019 | Health, Medical

CES has become the leading show for health tech. The number of exhibitors with health and medical products has grown rapidly in recent years. Nowhere else can you find so many companies in one place, from huge multinational corporations to tiny startups and university...

Expressive Robot Helps Autistic Kids Learn [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 11, 2019 | Health

Robotics continue to find meaningful applications in health care. A.I.-empowered robots in a pilot program in Canada help reduce hospital emergency department wait times and VGo’s telepresence robot augments clinical staff access in a variety of healthcare...