by Unber Shafiq | October 5, 2021 | Health
GoodRx – a company dedicated to helping people access affordable healthcare – has launched GoodRx Health, a digital health information resource that offers research-based answers to health questions. The platform covers four main areas of health: health...
by Bruce Brown | October 4, 2021 | Health
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) doesn’t disappear when children reach adulthood. According to a 2017 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 2% of U.S. adults (5,437,988 in 2017) have ASD. One of the most common difficulties for...
by Unber Shafiq | September 29, 2021 | Health
Age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, diabetic retinopathy, and other low vision conditions present many challenges to the patients. We have written extensively on technology that helps visually impaired people; for example, we wrote about IrisVision...
by Bruce Brown | September 23, 2021 | Health
Therapy dogs can bring light into otherwise dark lives. Therapy dogs aren’t necessarily as highly trained as service dogs for visually impaired people, for example, but therapy dogs must have specific characteristics. Therapy dogs need to be...
by Unber Shafiq | September 22, 2021 | Health, Medical
With the ongoing pandemic and increasing demand for mental health support, we are in immediate need to have more accessible platforms for mental health. Ginger and Headspace, two digital platforms working to improve mental health and wellbeing, have announced their...
by Amantha May | September 22, 2021 | Health, Medical
The United States has a significantly higher maternal mortality rate than any other developed nation in the world. Pregnancy-related mortality has increased in the US every year since 2000. Yet proper maternal health care could have prevented more than half of these...
