Stress Reducing Device Gets New Dashboard [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 19, 2016 | General News, Health

We first covered the Pip a little over a year ago. The little pointed puck is designed to measure “electrodermal activity” as a measure of the subject’s stress level, and a suite of smartphone apps provide exercises and games to help you relax. In...

Alfred Poor on Slashdot about CES 2016 [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, General News, Health, Medical

Just when you thought you were safe from the seemingly endless coverage of CES 2016, here comes a bonus video footnote. This is a video of an interview for Slashdot in which I discuss some of the items I saw at CES 2016 in Las Vegas last month, along with some of the...

Your Personal Dental Assistant [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2016 | General News, Health

Drink eight glasses of water a day. Chew your food 30 times. Brush your teeth for two minutes twice a day. Growing up we probably all heard these nuggets of conventional wisdom about drinking, chewing, and brushing. Maybe we followed the rules or maybe we...

Headspace to Clear Your Mind [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 12, 2016 | General News, Health

  Not everyone agrees that meditation can improve one’s quality of life. Last year’s study of studies by Johns Hopkins Medicine, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that meditation worked about as well as prescription drugs for relieving...

Not All Tele-Health Research Results Are Rosy

by Alfred Poor | February 12, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

If patients can monitor their own vital signs and other biometric data at home, and share this with healthcare professionals, we will be able to detect illness earlier, resulting in better treatment, lower costs, and better outcomes. At least, that’s what the...

Smartphone App Diagnoses Coughs [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 11, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

Your child has a cough. Is it serious, or will it just get better on its own? Is it a simple cough from a cold, or is it asthma or pneumonia or some other condition that needs professional medical attention? If you’re a parent, you’ve probably been through...