by Alfred Poor | June 9, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
Mary Meeker is a venture capitalist with the firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), and is known for her intensive and extensive annual presentations on Internet Trends. In her report this year, she spent a portion of her presentation on the impact of the...
by Alfred Poor | June 8, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
In the year 2000, U.S. seniors 65 or older fell and required medical treatment 2.6 million times. The total price tag was $19 billion for direct medical costs alone. A bit more than a third of these incidents resulted in bone fractures, but these accounted for more...
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by Alfred Poor | June 6, 2017 | General News, Health
One of the wonders of modern technology is its ability to compensate for impaired or missing functions in the human body. Prosthetic limbs, enhanced hearing, cochlear implants, wheelchairs, and exoskeletons are just a few of the amazing developments that allow...
by Bruce Brown | June 5, 2017 | General News, Health
Insurance industry adoption or study of wearable health tech has so far been limited to health insurance companies. For example, under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) encouraged health insurance companies to adopt...
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by Alfred Poor | June 5, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health
If Batman had special shoes, they probably would look something like this; “Quick, into the Batshoes! There’s no time to waste!” If you can’t be bothered with tying the laces on your sneakers, you can just fire up your smartphone and have the...
by Alfred Poor | June 2, 2017 | General News, Health
More than two-thirds of American adults are overweight. Clearly, we need to eat less and exercise more. Just as clearly, that is a whole lot easier to say than to do. Researchers have experimented with all sorts of ways to change a person’s behaviors about food...
