Wearables Help Cancer Patients Manage Pain at Home

by Bruce Brown | February 17, 2021 | Medical

We write about wearables of all sorts. We’ve covered wearables to track steps, check heart rates, monitor breathing rates, measure blood glucose levels, and even record ECGs. Depending on how far you push the definition of a wearable, the field of devices and...

Device Paired with Smartphone Improves Bladder Control in Women [video]

by Amantha May | February 17, 2021 | Health

Renovia, a digital women’s health company, recently completed enrollment for a large clinical trial intended to validate the company’s signature product, the leva Digital Therapeutic System. The system is designed to help treat women with bladder control....

Telehealth Is Key Factor for Eating Disorder Treatment

by Bruce Brown | February 16, 2021 | Health

The widening scope of telehealth, telemedicine, and remote patient monitoring (RPM) now extends to eating disorder treatment. San Diego’s Equip recently announced funding that will enable expansion of its evidence-based eating disorder treatment. Equip’s...

Nemaura Launches an Arsenal to Beat T2 Diabetes [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2021 | Health, Medical

We don’t need to reiterate the U.S. and global statistics on obesity, overweight, and diabetes. The numbers are huge, scary, and in a good year, they hold at current levels. We’ve written many times about devices and programs to detect and manage Type 2...

New Smart Ring Diagnoses Sleep Apnea At Home

by Amantha May | February 15, 2021 | Health

Vivos Therapeutics has announced the launch of VivoScore, a comprehensive home sleep apnea test. VivoScore includes a wearable sensor ring and a mobile app with cloud-based AI that evaluates sleep quality to diagnose obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Subjects can wear it...

CES 2021: New Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Can Separate Voices [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2021 | Health

Market prognosticators Gartner and IDC predict that hearable product sales will continue to lead the growth in the wearable device shipments worldwide at least for the next three to five years. During CES 2021, Taipei-based Relajet announced the company will begin...