VR App Helps Manage Pain and Anxiety

by Bruce Brown | June 26, 2020 | Health

The possibilities of pharmaceutical-free stress reduction and pain management have broad appeal (except, perhaps, to pharmaceutical companies). We’ve covered wearables designed to reduce stress, such as iBreve’s eponymous breathing pattern monitor and...

Robot Decreases COVID-19 Risk for Hospital Workers [video]

by Amantha May | June 26, 2020 | Health

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to strain hospital resources and overwhelm healthcare workers who risk contracting the coronavirus while caring for patients who have the disease. OhmniLabs is stepping up to increase the availability of its signature telepresence robot...

Activity Metric Correlates with Longer Life

by Bruce Brown | June 25, 2020 | Fitness, Health

Exercise is good for you. We’ve heard and believed in the health benefits of physical exercise for years. But what does “exercise” mean exactly? What should we do, and how much how often should we do it? The lack of clarity about which types of...

Disposable EEG Headset Reduces Virus Risk [video]

by Bruce Brown | June 24, 2020 | Health, Medical

According to a paper published in the Journal of Medical Virology in February 2020, a significant number of COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care may have neurological diseases in addition to acute respiratory failure. The authors of the paper-based their...

Smart Safety Wearable Now Offers Proximity Alerts

by Amantha May | June 24, 2020 | Health

Manufacturing plants, warehouses, and other workplaces that require employees to perform physical labor are taking worker safety more seriously due to the virus crisis. The Reflex is a smart wearable created by KINETIC that monitors body mechanics to reduce the risk...

Self-monitoring Skin App Tracks Moles [video]

by Bruce Brown | June 22, 2020 | Health

We’ve written several times about new technologies designed to help dermatologists diagnose skin cancer. In 2017, we wrote about 3Derm System’s 3Derm handheld that primary care physicians use to take photos of marks on a patient’s skin to send to a...