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...

Your Phone Can Tell If You Have Diabetes [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 8, 2020 | General News, Health

The scourge of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) continues to blind, maim, and cause premature death for a growing number of people worldwide. From 2000 to 2016, diabetes caused a 5% increase in premature mortality, according to the World Health Organization. During that period,...

Lift Tools All Day with New Passive Exoskeleton [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 7, 2020 | General News, Health

Exoskeletons play increasingly important roles in prosthetics, rehabilitation, and industrial worker augmentation and assistance. Last year FutureWise predicted exoskeletons would become a $4 billion industry by the end of 2026. In June, we wrote about...