by Alfred Poor | March 7, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health
As we’ve been saying, the trajectory for wearable Health Tech devices is going to be away from the products limited to fitness tracking, and toward more health and medical measurements that will be helpful in diagnosing illness in the early stages when treatment...
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by Bruce Brown | March 6, 2017 | General News, Health
The World Health Organization and other groups recommend breastfeeding exclusively for a baby’s first six months and continued breastfeeding with other food for 12 to 24 months (or however long the mother and baby wish to continue). According to a study...
by Bruce Brown | March 6, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
The rate of new cases of diabetes may have plateaued, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, 35 percent of Americans live with diabetes (29 million) or prediabetes (86 million), making the disease a continuing major health threat....
by Alfred Poor | March 3, 2017 | General News, Health
Critics who find fault with current society often lay the blame on smartphones and social media channels. It’s hard to argue that these technologies have reshaped individual and communal behaviors, often in was that are not improvements. However, like most...
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by Alfred Poor | March 2, 2017 | General News, Health
Many people confined to a wheelchair must deal with frustrating limitations. The bulky chair cannot fit in tight spaces, and while seated, the user cannot reach items that require them to be standing. A new product can help solve these problems and more. Numotion has...
by Alfred Poor | March 1, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
In this week’s Health Tech podcast, you can hear about a transistor that uses heat as the switching signal instead of electricity, about a standby switch that uses zero power, and about how stomach acid can be used to power smart pills and other ingestible devices....
