New Device Helps Control Childhood Diabetes

by Amantha May | September 11, 2020 | General News, Medical

Parents of children with Type 1 diabetes face the extraordinary challenge of monitoring their child’s blood glucose levels day and night. A national clinical trial has demonstrated that an artificial pancreas system, first developed at the University of Virginia, does...

A Selfie Can Screen for Heart Disease

by Bruce Brown | September 10, 2020 | Health, Medical

We now have a new way that your smartphone could save your life, using a simple selfie. Conventional camera sales tumbled after the 2007 launch of the first generation Apple iPhone with a 2MP rear camera. Apple’s 2010 iPhone 4 introduction gave the world the...

Simple Kit Makes Telehealth Visits Better [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 9, 2020 | Medical

Telemedicine has been a significant success story in the past few years. Telemedical remote access for specialist consults, rehab support, and post-discharge remote patient monitoring are among the early poster applications of the growing technology....

Artificial Intelligence Predicts COVID-19 Hospital Admissions

by Amantha May | September 9, 2020 | General News, Medical

Socioeconomic determinants of health (SDH) — such as gender, race, and household income — have an impact on who gets infected by COVID-19, who becomes very sick from the disease, and who requires the highest level of life-saving interventions. Predicting...

New Hearing Aids Adjust as You Walk and Talk

by Bruce Brown | September 3, 2020 | Medical

We’ve written about hearable technology for several years. I’ve also been able to personally try a select number shipping over-the-counter hearing assistance devices, including Nuheara’s IQ Buds and IQ Buds Boost, Olive Health’s Olive, and Wear...

Measure Non-Contact Vital Signs with a Smartphone [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 2, 2020 | General News, Medical

We frequently write about technology components in health and medicine, including enabling technologies that support other devices or platforms. Biometrics sensors used with artificial intelligence machine learning crop up increasingly in studies that demonstrate...