by Alfred Poor | March 21, 2019 | Health
As we’ve often pointed out, one side-effect of the opioid crisis is that more and more people are turning to non-chemical solutions for health and medical problems. Many people are looking for ways to reduce their feelings of stress in their busy lives, but...
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by Alfred Poor | March 20, 2019 | Health
As we’ve written here before, many sleep technology devices are like a weather report; they tell you what happened, but they don’t give you much help in affecting what happens in the future. Fortunately, that’s changing. Philips has created a line of...
by Alfred Poor | March 18, 2019 | Health
Here are two apparently unrelated facts. About 13% of people in the U.S. aged 12 years or older have hearing loss in both ears. According to some sources, nearly half of fitness band owners have stopped wearing them after just six months. So what’s the...
by Alfred Poor | March 15, 2019 | Health, Medical
Concussions and other injuries from head impacts continue to capture the attention of athletes, their families, their coaches, and their healthcare providers. Fortunately, we are rapidly learning a great deal about the problem, which is helping with better evaluation...
by Bruce Brown | March 14, 2019 | Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
We follow several global market research firms and consider IDC one of the most trusted. Near the end of 2018, we wrote about reports from IDC and the Gartner Group in which both organizations predicted that smartwatches would drive the wearables market for the next...
by Alfred Poor | March 14, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
Most articles about wearable tech focus on the health-related uses of biometric data. Measurements of body functions such as heart rate, temperature, and breathing rate can help identify disease and other conditions. But there’s another big problem facing...
