by Bruce Brown | September 4, 2018 | General News
Medical applications for 3D printing often sound like science fiction, due to the technology’s novelty and the frequent appearance of bionic body parts in fiction. Additive manufacturing using ultraviolet light to harden polymer layers was invented in 1981 by...
by Alfred Poor | September 4, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Our bodies are chemical engines. It stands to reason that we should be able to deduce all sorts of useful information about our health status simply by considering the types and quantities of different chemicals in our bodies: biomarkers. Doctors routinely sample...
by Bruce Brown | September 3, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Biosensor technology advances widen the range of health and medical applications. Improvements in sensor accuracy, composite sensors, wireless data transmission, power requirements, and user comfort extend wearable tech capabilities for continuous monitoring of...
by Alfred Poor | September 3, 2018 | General News, Medical
Wearable sensors are transforming healthcare practice in ways that could not be imagined even a few decades ago. They make it possible to monitor patients more closely and around the clock. Alerts can be generated if readings stray outside a target range. Data can be...
by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2018 | General News, Health
A troublesome new study explores a potentially dangerous flaw in health tech user ratings, comments, and reviews. Timothy B. Plante from the Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont was the lead author of a study that found...
by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Melanoma is a skin cancer that kills nearly 10,000 people a year in the U.S. alone. As a result, it should not be a surprise that dermatology pops up often in our articles as a medical specialty that has been the target of digital health tech developments. We’ve...