UK Study Correlates Device Screen Time with Diabetes

by Bruce Brown | March 14, 2017 | General News, Health

Does it matter if children spend a lot of time watching television and looking at electronic device screens? The American Academy of Pediatrics says children in the U.S spend an average of seven hours a day on entertainment media, including televisions, computers,...

Tablet-based Accessible Hearing Check for Children [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 13, 2017 | General News, Health

  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 360 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss, of which 32 million are children. WHO further states that 60% of childhood hearing loss is due to preventable causes. A child’s hearing typically...

UV Sensor Warns to Prevent Lupus Flares [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 10, 2017 | General News, Health

Too much ultraviolet light exposure can be a problem for anyone. We’ve previously written about wearable UV-detecting wearables, including a study by University of Southern California research on the subject and MyUV, a wearable under development by LaRoche...

Health Tech Podcast: Trains, cloth skeletons, and magnetic brains

by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical, Podcast

In this week’s podcast, you’ll hear about some innovative technologies that could change lives. A tiny chip measures the speed of blood flow using light, a lightweight and low-cost exoskeleton is made from fabric and air, and miniature magnetic coils...

Virtual Reality Aids Cancer Patients [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2017 | General News, Health

Modern medicine works miracles. Diseases that used to kill thousands and thousands of people every year have all but disappeared from the planet. Other diseases that used to be a certain death sentence now can be cured, or at least their progress can be slowed. Cancer...

Pain-free, Non-invasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2017 | General News, Health

Approximately 1.6 billion people in the world have diabetes or prediabetes, according to World Health Organization figures. Of that immense number, only 1 in 20 of those have Type 1, the autoimmune form of the disease. The remainder of diabetics and virtually all...