New Partners Use Remote Health to Save Pregnant Mothers’ Lives

by Amantha May | September 22, 2021 | Health, Medical

The United States has a significantly higher maternal mortality rate than any other developed nation in the world. Pregnancy-related mortality has increased in the US every year since 2000. Yet proper maternal health care could have prevented more than half of these...

Smart Heart Patch Cleared for Sale in Europe

by Bruce Brown | September 21, 2021 | Health, Medical

We’ve been covering wearable ECG devices since 2014 when Alfred Poor wrote about the Zio XT Service ECG patch monitor. Among other developments in ECG, in 2019 we noted VivaQuant‘s RX-1 Rhythm Express wearable arrhythmia device. More recently I had hands on...

Five New Clinical Studies Will Test VR for Pain Management

by Unber Shafiq | September 15, 2021 | Medical

Researchers have conducted various studies on the role of VR in acute and chronic pain management. From rehabilitation of burn survivors to decrease pain and anxiety in patients during their cancer treatment to treating chronic neck pain, VR has been used in the...

3D Printing Creates Living Brain Tumors [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 14, 2021 | Medical

Three-dimensional (3D) printing has come a long way from fabricating tiny dinosaur figures . We’ve written about 3D-printed tissues that speed bone healing, 3D-printed organs, 3D-printed living skin with blood vessels, and much more. Taking “much...

Hands-On: At Home Heart Monitor Records Two Days of Data

by Bruce Brown | September 13, 2021 | Health, Medical

We wrote about Biotricity’s Bioheart personal heart monitor in January. Biotricity showcased the device during CES 2021. The Bioheart is a chest strap with two dry electrodes. Connected to an associated smartphone app, the Bioheart device can capture and display...

Health Systems Respond to Pandemic with More Home Care Technology

by Bruce Brown | September 10, 2021 | Health, Medical

The COVID-19 pandemic boosted health system interest in many of the topics that we cover regularly. Overcrowding, staff shortages, and infection risk-avoidance gave regional health agencies little choice but to explore alternative care modes. The result was growing...