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by Bruce Brown | July 23, 2020 | Health
Last year at this time, no one expected most people in the U.S. would be required, expected, or even asked to wear air filtration masks in public areas. The COVID-19 pandemic happened, however, and health experts are nearly unanimous in their support for masks as one...
by Bruce Brown | July 22, 2020 | Medical
Artificial intelligence is one of the most promising digital technologies in medicine. We’ve written about AI diagnostic apps with a diverse set of diseases and conditions. Earlier this year, we wrote about researchers at Radboud University Medical Center in the...
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by Amantha May | July 22, 2020 | Enabling Tech
In September 2019, UPS became the first company to receive a Federal Aviation Administration certification to operate a drone delivery aircraft. UPS is now partnering with iQ Healthtech Labs to provide drone delivery of medical supplies and PPE to a network of...
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by Bruce Brown | July 21, 2020 | Health
Hearables are the fastest growing segment of the wearables market, according to the latest IDC quarterly wearables marketing report. We’ve written about and looked at hearables before, including Nuheara’s IQBuds Boost and Wear and Hear’s BeHear Now....
by Bruce Brown | July 20, 2020 | Health
Blood pressure is one of the most essential vital signs when it comes to monitoring a patient’s health. The traditional method is to use a pressure cuff on a patient’s upper arm and then listen to the sounds of blood flow as the pressure changes. The main...
by Amantha May | July 20, 2020 | Health
Experts believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused first responders and frontline healthcare workers to experience trauma and distress. Such experiences could increase their risk for mental health conditions, especially post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The...
