by Bruce Brown | May 8, 2019 | Health
Plenty of companies want to sell sensor-loaded smart home systems to support aging-in-place issues, but is that what seniors want? And what about wearables? Does the scope of wearables for older people center on fall detection and activity monitoring to make sure...
by Bruce Brown | May 7, 2019 | Health, Medical
Developmental disabilities in children too often go undetected before the condition progress past the time when treatment could be most effective. The CDC states that parents, teachers, and others involved should all be on the lookout for developmental milestones in...
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by Alfred Poor | May 2, 2019 | Health
According to the Hearing Health Foundation, about 48 million people in the U.S. suffer from some degree of hearing loss. About one third of all adults aged 65 to 74 have some hearing loss, and that jumps to one half for those 75 or older. Hearing impairment can play a...
by Bruce Brown | April 30, 2019 | Health
Kidney disease takes a terrible toll on human life. According to the CDC’s 2017 Summary Health Statistics Tables for U.S. Adults, 5.1 million people representing 2.1% of adults have diagnosed kidney disease. Kidney disease is the ninth most common cause of...
by Bruce Brown | April 29, 2019 | Health
We haven’t written much about wearables, carryables, or health tech apps used for contraception or family planning. Due to controversy regarding reported effectiveness rates, we raised a journalistic eyebrow when the FDA cleared the Natural Cycles fertility...
by Bruce Brown | April 26, 2019 | Health
Many forms of wearable tech aid blind and visually impaired people, often with dramatic impact on their lives. In the past, we’ve written about augmented reality glasses that helps the blind navigate, a video racing game interface for blind players, a headset...
