International Partnership Launches Precision Health Collaboration

by Bruce Brown | August 15, 2019 | Health

“It takes a village” for a child to grow in a safe and healthy environment, according to a proverb attributed to various African societies. Substantive advances in healthcare require cooperation on a much wider scale. A recently announced 10-year...

VR Lullaby Uses Brainwave Images [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 9, 2019 | Health

The CDC reports about one in three adults in the U.S. does not get enough sleep (which the CDC defines as 7 or more hours per 24-hour period). With an admitted bias against pharmaceutical use to rack up more sleep hours, we’ve covered a variety of wearable...

A Soft Wrap Treats Infant Jaundice [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 22, 2019 | Health

Approximately 60% of all babies have jaundice according to the CDC. Mild cases of jaundice in newborns go away in a few weeks, but higher levels of bilirubin, a substance that indicates jaundice severity, may require treatment. The most common treatment for newborn...

Wearable Vibrator Combats Bone Loss

by Bruce Brown | July 12, 2019 | Health

According to the International Osteoporosis Foundation, the most commonly cited global source on the disease, 1 in 4 women and more than 1 in 8 men over 50 years of age in North America have osteoporosis. Also, 1 in 4 women and men in the same age group have evidence...

What If Patients Reject Wearables and AI?

by Bruce Brown | July 8, 2019 | Health

French researchers at two Paris institutions recently published the results of an investigation of patients’ perceptions of wearable biometric monitoring devices (BMDs) and artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare in npr Digital Medicine. The researchers from...

Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm Enables Independence [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 5, 2019 | Health

Assistive robotics take many forms. We’ve written about a brain implant developed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical College that enables the sense of touch for a robotic arm. Scientists at the University of Tübingen’s Applied Neurotechnology Lab created a...