Nighttime Breathing Rate Predicts Heart Attack Risk for Pacemaker Patients

by Bruce Brown | January 1, 2021 | Medical

Sudden cardiac arrest is a killer. According to the CDC, approximately 209,000 people in the U.S. are treated for in-hospital cardia arrest (IHCA) annually. Those were the lucky ones, because they were already in the hospital. In 2015, for example, about 357,000...

Robot Arms Controlled by Just by Thinking [video]

by Amantha May | January 1, 2021 | Enabling Tech

Two years ago, Robert “Buz” Chmielewski underwent a 10-hour operation, during which surgeons implanted six electrodes in his brain. Within a few months of the operation, Chmielewski could control two robotic arms using only his thoughts, transmitted...

New Handheld Device Provides Early Bedsore Detection [video]

by Bruce Brown | December 31, 2020 | Medical

According to a study published by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), more than 2.5 million people in the U.S. develop pressure ulcers each year. Pressure ulcers — also called bedsores — occur often with patients in hospitals but...

CES 2021: New Low-Cost Smart Watch Packs Fitness Features

by Bruce Brown | December 30, 2020 | Health

It wasn’t that long ago when fitness bands and smartwatches were markedly different devices. Successive Apple Watch and Samsung Galaxy smartwatches generations have added exercise tracking and health monitoring features. Newer Fitbit and Garmin models continue...

CES 2021: Connected Cap Brings EEG to the Home [video]

by Amantha May | December 30, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Last year, biotech startup iMediSync devoted a booth at CES 2020 to its signature product, a clinical, AI-driven platform for quantitative analysis of electroencephalography (qEEG), called iSyncBrain. This year, the company will showcase iSyncWave, a portable brain...

CES 2021: Widex Moment is Best of Innovation Award Honoree

by Bruce Brown | December 29, 2020 | Medical

A panel of expert judges named the Widex Moment machine-learning hearable technology a CES 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree in two categories: Health & Wellness and Wearable Technologies. We wrote about Widex Moment in November. The Consumer Trade Association (CTA)...