by Bruce Brown | March 26, 2019 | General News, Health, Medical
In biometric terms, sweat may soon be the new black. Blood testing remains the current gold standard for biometric measurement, but it is invasive, at times awkward or difficult, and sometimes painful. The greatest downside from a single blood draw, however, is the...
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by Bruce Brown | March 18, 2019 | Medical
The quacking Aflac duck continues to serve the supplemental insurance company well, putting smiles on faces today just as it did on New Year’s Day 2000 when now-iconic duck first appeared in an Aflac television commercial, “Park Bench.” Over the...
by Bruce Brown | March 15, 2019 | Medical
We humans are sadly deficient in our sense of smell. Dogs, for example, have 50 times as many olfactory receptors in their noses, as humans and the portion of a dog’s brain dedicated to analyzing smells is 40 timesproportionally larger. Law enforcement and...
by Alfred Poor | March 15, 2019 | Health, Medical
Concussions and other injuries from head impacts continue to capture the attention of athletes, their families, their coaches, and their healthcare providers. Fortunately, we are rapidly learning a great deal about the problem, which is helping with better evaluation...
by Bruce Brown | March 14, 2019 | Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
We follow several global market research firms and consider IDC one of the most trusted. Near the end of 2018, we wrote about reports from IDC and the Gartner Group in which both organizations predicted that smartwatches would drive the wearables market for the next...
by Alfred Poor | March 14, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
Most articles about wearable tech focus on the health-related uses of biometric data. Measurements of body functions such as heart rate, temperature, and breathing rate can help identify disease and other conditions. But there’s another big problem facing...
