Smart Exoskeleton Adapts As It Assists Arm Rehab

by Bruce Brown | July 5, 2018 | General News, Medical

Rehabilitation with smart robotics opens the door to a wide and promising range of structural and neuromechanical training. Smart robotics can do more than just assist and shape body and limb movement when the robotic system itself has input in training...

Research Shows Artificial Pancreas Make Lives Better

by Bruce Brown | July 3, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical

People with type 1 diabetes typically have to work hard to maintain their blood sugar levels within a target range, as this leads to better health and lower risk of dangerous complications. We wrote about the Medtronic MiniMed 670G hybrid closed-loop glucose...

Report: AI to Save Hospitals $52 Billion by 2021

by Bruce Brown | July 2, 2018 | General News, Medical

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays varied roles in healthcare. We’ve written about AI helping troubled kids make better decisions with OneSeventeen Media’s interactive tools. In a study at Rory Myers College of Nursing machine learning-based artificial...

Activity Trackers Help Monitor Heart Patients

by Alfred Poor | June 29, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical

I often take pot shots at “expensive pedometers that aren’t very accurate,” but the fact is that the traditional “fitness tracker” is morphing into a useful device for health and medical applications. My smartwatch initially overcounted...

Wearable Robotics Assist with Movement and Rehabilitation [video]

by Bruce Brown | June 27, 2018 | General News, Medical

Of all the wearables for health and medical applications, exoskeletons may be the most exciting and the most visible. Researchers explore robotic exoskeletons to alleviate physical workload, to substitute for impaired or nonfunctional human limbs, and to assist with...

Senior Deaths from Falls Continue to Rise

by Alfred Poor | June 27, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical

If there was a disease that killed nearly 30,000 deaths in 2016, that might get your attention. If this cause of death has increased by about 3% a year since 2007, you might wonder how that could be. Aren’t we supposed to be getting better outcomes from modern...