Extended Wear ECG Ambulatory Monitor

by Bruce Brown | June 28, 2019 | Medical

Development teams worldwide work on clinical-grade extended wear biosensors every day. The concept of wearable continuous ECG monitors is especially near and dear to our hearts. We wrote earlier about VivaQaunt’s RX-1 Rhythm Express wearable ECG device that...

Wearable Dialysis Device Promises Machine Independence [video]

by Bruce Brown | June 28, 2019 | Medical

Approximately 15% of U.S. adults have chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to the CDC. Early stage treatment can slow CKD progression through the five stages of severity. For patients whose kidney disease continues to the fifth stage — called end-stage renal...

UVA Puts Klue’s Meal Detection on Trial

by Bruce Brown | June 27, 2019 | Health

Obesity and diabetes will bury our country if we don’t stem the onslaught of this double whammy. Proposed solutions abound but must be tested and cleared for general use. The FDA’s role as the arbiter that decides whether companies may or may not market...

Smart Prosthetic Uses AI to Learn Faster

by Alfred Poor | June 27, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Captain Hook made prosthetic hands famous, but his was not capable of movement and had limited functionality. Today, low-cost movable prosthetic hands are fabricated quickly and inexpensively using 3D printing technology. And we now have powered prosthetic hands, but...

Motorcycle Jacket May Save Your Hips [video]

by Bruce Brown | June 25, 2019 | Health

Each year more than 300,000 people aged 65 and older in the U.S. break their hips, usually by falling. Dainese is a Colceresa, Italy-based high-end motorcycle apparel manufacturer. Their recently-introduced D-Air Smart Jacket incorporates technology that reduce the...

Colorectal Cancer Screening without Prep and Sedation

by Bruce Brown | June 24, 2019 | Medical

When you hear the words, “Lie on your side and count backward from 100,” the hardest part of having a colonoscopy screening test for colorectal cancer (CRC) is over. The CDC recommends a colonoscopy today or everyone between the age of 50 to 75 (starting...