Professional Sports Drives Wearable Advances

by Alfred Poor | December 1, 2015 | Fitness, General News, Health, Medical

Health Tech Insider focuses on the health and medical applications of wearable technology, leaving the broad and largely consumer-based fitness market for others to cover (including our sister publication, Wearable Tech Insider). However, the lines between fitness...

It Hurts Right Here

by Bruce Brown | November 30, 2015 | General News, Health

Have you gone to the doctor with a mysterious but bothersome pain and found it was hard describe well enough for the physician to figure it out? It happened to me a few years ago when I had piriformis syndrome, an uncommon but extremely painful and difficult to...

Feedback for Effective Kegel Workouts [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 27, 2015 | General News, Health

As many as 1 in 5 men, women, and children have pelvic floor issues. Among women, the ratio is higher (up to 1 in 3) and is commonly but not only found among women who have had more than one vaginal childbirth. The most common symptoms of pelvic floor disorder are...

Smart Necklace Tracks Your Eating and More

by Alfred Poor | November 27, 2015 | General News, Health

The IDTechEx conference was held in Santa Clara, CA November 18 and 19, 2015, covering a wide range of topics including wearable devices and related technology such as sensors, printed electronics, and energy harvesting. This is one of the many items of interest from...

Cool Tattoos Can Check Your Vitals [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 26, 2015 | General News, Health, Medical

Electronic medical measurement and monitoring devices in hospitals, doctors’ offices, and homes are used increasingly to detect current status, problem conditions, and change over time. The last time I visited my primary care physician his assistant waved a...

Track and Manage Sleep with Juvo [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 24, 2015 | General News, Health

    Are you getting enough sleep? The importance of adequate sleep is often underrated in favor of working and playing hard, but more recently people are recognizing the deleterious effects of sleep deprivation. In 2011 the World Association of Sleep and...