by Unber Shafiq | June 22, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Auscultation is a non-invasive and inexpensive medical diagnostic practice that uses a stethoscope. It’s a fancy word for listening to a patient’s lungs, heart, and intestine, as well as other internal sounds of the body, using a stethoscope. Contemporary...
by Bruce Brown | June 21, 2022 | Medical
In November 2021, the CDC used provisional data to estimate that U.S. deaths from opioid overdoses rose to 100,306 for the 12-month period that ended in April 2021. That number is a 28.5% increase from the 78,506 deals in the previous 12 months. Researchers from the...
by Unber Shafiq | June 21, 2022 | Health
More and more people are turning to smartphone apps to deal with a range of medical and mental health issues. Rootd is one such digital therapeutic designed to help people with panic attack and anxiety relief. Following the recent invasion of Ukraine, the company has...
by Bruce Brown | June 20, 2022 | Health
Adolescence was tough enough when we were kids. Today’s young people are growing up during what a White House Briefing Room fact sheet describes as “an unprecedented mental health crisis among people of all ages.” The fact sheet cites...
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by William McCleary | June 20, 2022 | Medical
The Icelandic digital care platform Sidekick Health has partnered with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to offer a digital therapeutics (DTx) solution for atopic dermatitis (AD). Treating AD — a chronic inflammatory skin condition that’s also known as eczema — is...
by William McCleary | June 17, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Cable TV is inundated with ads for glucose-monitoring devices, showing happy folks leading happy “no finger prick” lives. Offering convenience to people with diabetes, this non-invasive blood-sugar monitoring method is a lucrative niche that’s drawn...
