by Amantha May | March 8, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Mechanical engineers at Rice University have designed a chip that allows an ordinary cell phone to detect COVID-19 biomarkers in blood. The new chip could provide a simpler testing process than current nose-swab PCR tests, delivering results in less than one hour...
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by Bruce Brown | March 5, 2021 | Enabling Tech
The search continues for clinical-grade, non-invasive wearables that can monitor crucial biomarkers passively. Patient compliance is greatest when users don’t need to take additional action after they strap on, pin on, or press on a wearable that continuously...
by Amantha May | March 5, 2021 | Medical
In the 12 month period between June 2019 and May 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the rapid rise in opioid-related deaths. According to a recent CDC report, overdose deaths from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids increased by 38.4% compared to those during...
by Bruce Brown | March 4, 2021 | Health
It’s no surprise that obesity rates are crazy-high and continue to rise in the U.S. The latest CDC numbers cite a 42% obesity prevalence among U.S. adults in 2017-2018, up from 30.5% in 1999-2000. We’ve written about telehealth weight loss programs,...
by Bruce Brown | March 3, 2021 | Health, Medical
We’ve been writing about wearables and digital health on Health Tech Insider since 2014. In 2015 Rock Health and the Stanford Center for Digital Health began conducting an annual Digital Health Consumer Adoption survey. From 2015 to 2019, Rock Health surveyed...
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by Amantha May | March 3, 2021 | Enabling Tech
A new robotic gripper can “feel” what it’s holding, much like natural human skin. Developed by researchers from the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Carnegie Mellon University, and the Southern University of Science and Technology, the tactile...
