Listen To Your Loved One’s Heart from Afar [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 5, 2016 | General News, Health

Do you travel much on business? Deployed or away at school? If there’s someone at home you miss terribly and wish you were near, traveling away from home can be a hollow part of life. Staying in strange rooms away from loved ones, no matter how fancy the hotel,...

CES 2016: Welcome to Las Vegas!

by Alfred Poor | January 5, 2016 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, General News, Health, Medical

Full Disclosure: I did not write this today, or even yesterday. I wrote this last weekend because yesterday I spent the day traveling and today I started drinking from a fire hose for the rest of this week. I’m at CES 2016, the largest consumer electronics...

IBM Researchers Address Workplace Injuries

by Alfred Poor | January 4, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

When you see the term “multi-national corporation,” you probably just think “very big company.” But many of these companies are actually doing important work all around the world. For example, consider IBM Research in Haifa, Israel. Part of IBM...

In Search of Sleep, Peace, and Quiet [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 1, 2016 | General News, Health

Getting a good night’s sleep is elusive for many of us. Equally bothersome at times is finding peace and quiet when we’d like a break in noisy environments to read, relax, meditate, or even take a nap. Sleep aids of various types are a large and growing...

Find the Closest Defibrillator NOW!

by Bruce Brown | December 31, 2015 | General News, Health

[Image credit: IntelFreePress] While there are no universally accepted annual rates of cardiac arrest on the global level, one group estimates approximately 7 million incidents annually, with 50,000 in France alone. The latest (2015) American Heart Association...

42 Million More in U.S. Using Health Apps [video]

by Alfred Poor | December 31, 2015 | General News, Health, Medical

Digital communications in the form of the Internet, cell phones, and wireless data access have transformed the way people communicate around the world. The impact is not just limited to interpersonal communications, however. 15 years ago, who would have guessed that...