by Bruce Brown | June 19, 2019 | General News, Health, Medical
Suicide is the second most frequent cause of death among people aged 10 to 34 in the U.S. and the fourth most frequent cause of death for people between the ages of 34 and 54, according to the CDC. We have written about programs that use AI to help children make wiser...
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by Alfred Poor | June 18, 2019 | Medical
The opioid crisis has increased interest in non-pharmacological solutions for pain management, and one of the promising technologies for this application is virtual reality (VR). One problem is that the required hardware — the goggles and other supporting...
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by Bruce Brown | June 14, 2019 | Medical
A cancer diagnosis is one of the scariest bits of information one can ever receive. In 2018, the National Cancer Institute estimated that during the year doctors would diagnose 1,735,530 new cases of cancer. The organization also estimated that 609,640 people would...
by Bruce Brown | June 4, 2019 | Medical
Depression is a primary cause of disability globally, according to the World Health Organization, which tallies more than 300 million people suffering from depression worldwide. For a person with clinical depression, the search for an effective pharmaceutical solution...
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by Alfred Poor | May 29, 2019 | Medical
Pop quiz: assuming that you could get the same level of care, would you rather be in a bed in a hospital or in your own bed at home? Most people would prefer to be at home in familiar surroundings, and now technology is making that a viable option. Contessa provides...
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by Bruce Brown | May 21, 2019 | Medical
Smart pill bottles may not be the best and only answer to patient compliance with prescription medications, but if they’re not it won’t be for a lack of trying by developers worldwide. We’ve written before about smart pill bottles and boxes from...
