Hi-Tech Wrap Speeds Healing [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 30, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

Until I heard about VIVY, I had not heard the term “diathermy” and I had to look it up. It turns out that this is a technology that can produce heat deep within muscle tissue. The heat causes increased blood flow, which in turn speeds healing by delivering...

Mobility By the Seat of Your Pants [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 29, 2016 | General News, Health

  Powered mobility devices can mean the difference between isolation and participation for many of the 17.1 million of adult Americans (7.1 percent of the population) who find it very difficult if not impossible to walk a quarter-mile, according to the Centers...

Twitter Adds Smartphone Image Accessibility for the Blind

by Bruce Brown | March 28, 2016 | General News, Health

  Love it or hate it, social media has changed the way many people communicate for work, learning, and pleasure. Twitter, which launched in 2006, was one of the first social media applications to attain broad recognition beyond special populations such as college...

Wearables Give New Hope for “Orphan” Diseases [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 25, 2016 | General News, Health

As the market for Health Tech wearables and mobile apps moves out of infancy, the majority of products focus on broad metabolic measures such as heart rate, blood sugar, and blood pressure. Applications designed to monitor specific diseases or medical conditions in...

Smart Bra Senses Possible Breast Cancer

by Alfred Poor | March 22, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

About one in eight women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer during her lifetime, according to Breastcancer.org. Death rates from the disease have been declining in the past decade, partly due to earlier detection and better treatments. One of the keys to a...

Self-Tying Shoes from Nike [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 21, 2016 | General News, Health

Have you ever tried to tie lace-up shoes with one hand? In the past few years, I had that experience three times following rotator cuff surgery on each shoulder and a trigger finger release on my left hand. In each case I lived through just a few days of awkwardness,...