Stanford Medicine Pilots Proactive, Personalized Care [video]

by Bruce Brown | June 21, 2019 | Medical

Sous vide cooking introduced the concept of precision cooking to many home chefs. When you cook sous vide — or under a vacuum — you heat water to a precise temperature to cook food in a vacuum-sealed bag. Stanford University School of Medicine’s...

Suicidal Ideation and Behavior Risk Assessment Tool

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...

New VR Hardware Used for Pain Management [video]

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...

Med Student Creates eBook for Cancer Patients [video]

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...

Flow Headset Seeks NHS Nod for Depression

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...

Hospital Care Comes Home [video]

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...