by Bruce Brown | November 16, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable health tech devices spur the search for new types of power sources. We’ve written about flexible batteries that can be cut into shapes from Nanyang Technological University, stretchable batteries embedded in garments developed at Binghamton University,...
by Bruce Brown | November 15, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
The health tech wearables that we write about typically combine one or more integrated biosensors with battery-powered wireless transmitters to send biometric data elsewhere to be stored and analyzed, usually to a smartphone. Such devices come in a myriad of form...
by Bruce Brown | November 14, 2018 | General News, Medical
Among heart failure patients discharged from hospitals, on average 23% are readmitted each year, according to a 2016 report in Progressive Cardiovascular Disease. Early detection of changing symptoms to prevent readmission is the Holy Grail for the costly problem....
by Bruce Brown | November 13, 2018 | General News, Medical
Low ejection fraction refers to the amount of blood pumped from the left ventricle with each heartbeat. Ejection fraction matters, according to the American Heart Association, because scoring lower than 50% can be an indicator of developing heart failure or...
by Bruce Brown | November 12, 2018 | General News, Medical
Anything that helps helps. There is no need to make the case that diabetes continues to be a pervasive health threat to millions upon millions of Americans and, increasingly, throughout developed countries worldwide. People diagnosed with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes...
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by Bruce Brown | November 9, 2018 | General News, Health
Many seniors live in dread of falls. If you fall and break your hip, as my Mother did as we were leaving a restaurant in early February a few years back, you might not get home for months. My Mom didn’t go home until the end of May. As we wrote in June this...
