by Bruce Brown | February 14, 2018 | General News, Health
The opioid crisis grew out of pharmaceutical solutions for chronic severe pain management, and it won’t recede until medicine, science, and the private sector create effective non-drug pain treatments. History shows any war on drugs focused solely on law...
by Kimberly Houston | February 14, 2018 | General News, Health
We all know excess weight adversely affects our health. Obesity increases the risk for many serious diseases and conditions, including hypertension (high blood pressure), type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some cancers, to name just a few. But knowing that...
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by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2018 | General News, Health
The winter 2017-2018 flu season rages on, with millions of U.S. victims getting very sick with a malady that takes a long time to move on. Seasonal influenza, aka the flu, has a hospitalization rate of 51.4 per 100,000 people, higher than rate recorded at this stage...
by Alfred Poor | February 8, 2018 | Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
3,900 exhibitors. 2.75 million feet of exhibit space. It should come as little surprise that I covered more than 89,000 steps at CES 2018. This annual conference in Las Vegas has become the primary show for wearable and mobile devices for health and medical...
by Bruce Brown | February 7, 2018 | General News, Health
Last year, after CES 2017, Health Tech Insider Editor, Publisher, and Chief of Everything Else Alfred Poor wrote about health tech that stays out of the way but earns its keep with substantiated results. In the article about proven clinically accurate health tech that...
by Bruce Brown | February 6, 2018 | General News, Health
Biosensor devices that can detect specific biomarkers are key components in mobile health tech. In order to be truly useful, however, they must measure well against the current gold standard in medical grade technologies. University and corporate laboratories...
