by Bruce Brown | June 18, 2019 | Health
In the past five years, we’ve observed a variety of neurostimulation applications to reduce pain. We’ve written about neurostimulation used with patients with migraine, depression, diabetic nerve damage detection, back pain, opioid withdrawal, and more....
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by Alfred Poor | June 18, 2019 | Medical
The opioid crisis has increased interest in non-pharmacological solutions for pain management, and one of the promising technologies for this application is virtual reality (VR). One problem is that the required hardware — the goggles and other supporting...
by Bruce Brown | June 17, 2019 | Health
Another tech company has joined the hunt for AI algorithm-driven cough-analysis. Since early 2016 we’ve covered Australian-based ResApp Health’s smartphone-only product that captures a more complete sound frequency range when a cough exits a...
by Alfred Poor | June 17, 2019 | Fitness, Health
One of my recurring themes is that the focus of health and fitness tracking is rapidly shifting from personal choice to employers, insurers, and healthcare systems. This change is driven by the fact that these corporate entities are the ones that stand to benefit...
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by Bruce Brown | June 14, 2019 | Medical
A cancer diagnosis is one of the scariest bits of information one can ever receive. In 2018, the National Cancer Institute estimated that during the year doctors would diagnose 1,735,530 new cases of cancer. The organization also estimated that 609,640 people would...
by Bruce Brown | June 13, 2019 | Health
Wearable smart thermometers have two notable advantages over conventional body temperature measurement devices: continuous tracking and noninvasiveness. Why disturb someone who doesn’t feel well — babies and children especially but really anyone — by...
