by Bruce Brown | July 11, 2018 | General News, Health
Millennial parents are raising the first generation of children with broadly available healthcare-related artificial intelligence technologies. By the time the Generation Alpha children – those born after 2010 – are teenagers, AI-assisted medical care will...
by Bruce Brown | July 3, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
People with type 1 diabetes typically have to work hard to maintain their blood sugar levels within a target range, as this leads to better health and lower risk of dangerous complications. We wrote about the Medtronic MiniMed 670G hybrid closed-loop glucose...
by Bruce Brown | June 29, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
Two established health technology companies announced a new partnership to develop biometric sensing ear modules for diverse markets. Denmark-based Sonion and Raleigh, North Carolina-based Valencell will combine their experience and assets in hearing and earphone...
by Alfred Poor | June 29, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
I often take pot shots at “expensive pedometers that aren’t very accurate,” but the fact is that the traditional “fitness tracker” is morphing into a useful device for health and medical applications. My smartwatch initially overcounted...
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by Bruce Brown | June 28, 2018 | General News, Health
The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is on the rise in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC). Previously thought to affect 1.3 million Americans 18 and older, a 2016 CDC study found IBD affects approximately...
by Alfred Poor | June 27, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
If there was a disease that killed nearly 30,000 deaths in 2016, that might get your attention. If this cause of death has increased by about 3% a year since 2007, you might wonder how that could be. Aren’t we supposed to be getting better outcomes from modern...
