New Fitness Tracker Fights Childhood Obesity [video]

by Amantha May | September 7, 2020 | General News, Health

There’s no shortage of fitness trackers out there, including trackers designed specifically for kids. Garmin, Fitbit, and Leapfrog offer trackers intended to make exercise fun by making it quantifiable: the same feature that attracts adults to wear their tracker as...

New Study Results Show Fitness Bands Can Detect Virus Infection

by Bruce Brown | September 4, 2020 | Health

After two months of study with more than 100,000 Fitbit users in the trial and 1000+ positive COVID-19 virus reports, Fitbit has released preliminary results from its early disease detection work. The wearables company experts are employing machine learning and...

New Project Keeps Critically Ill Patients Connected to Family [video]

by Amantha May | September 4, 2020 | General News, Health

Between February 1, and May 23, 2020, 91% of all deaths from COVID-19 occurred in a medical center or nursing home, according to a recent study published in July. The authors of the study called on care facilities to make virtual technology available to keep all...

New Hearing Aids Adjust as You Walk and Talk

by Bruce Brown | September 3, 2020 | Medical

We’ve written about hearable technology for several years. I’ve also been able to personally try a select number shipping over-the-counter hearing assistance devices, including Nuheara’s IQ Buds and IQ Buds Boost, Olive Health’s Olive, and Wear...

Measure Non-Contact Vital Signs with a Smartphone [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 2, 2020 | General News, Medical

We frequently write about technology components in health and medicine, including enabling technologies that support other devices or platforms. Biometrics sensors used with artificial intelligence machine learning crop up increasingly in studies that demonstrate...

Smart Pill for Collects Samples of Gut Biome [video]

by Amantha May | September 2, 2020 | General News, Medical

Most smart pills deliver medication, track medication compliance, or contain a microscopic camera for internal diagnostic imaging. Now, innovative smart pills can also take a sample of gut bacteria to help understand and diagnose illness. Researchers at Purdue...