by William McCleary | June 6, 2022 | Medical
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted Breakthrough Device Designation to an AI algorithm designed to aid in the early detection of pulmonary hypertension (PH). This type of high blood pressure often goes undetected until it has reached an...
by William McCleary | June 3, 2022 | Health, Medical
The thought of getting jabbed with a needle raises anxiety in many people, and even fear. It’s a fear — both great and small — that came into sharp relief when tens of millions of people got coronavirus shots. The Journal of Primary Care and Community Health...
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by Bruce Brown | June 2, 2022 | Health
Before COVID-19, I don’t remember reading about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA). After the nearly two and half years of pandemic response, EUA is now common parlance in the health tech industry. The FDA...
by William McCleary | June 1, 2022 | Enabling Tech
If our body’s cells are powered by the glucose that we get from the food that we eay, why not sugar-powered fuel cells for medical implants and wearables? That’s the question that’s been asked and mostly answered by researchers at MIT and the...
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by Unber Shafiq | June 1, 2022 | Health, Medical
Remote patient care has become a big part of the new normal, but remote physical exams are still much less prevalent. We recently covered the MedWand device that collects vital data remotely. Children’s TYLENOL has developed a similar technology specifically for...
by Bruce Brown | May 31, 2022 | Medical
Are you ready for some good news? Let’s start with a blunt reality. “We know very little about the brain,” writer Vivian Lam quoted Neurosurgery Professor Lu Chen in Stanford Medicine’s Scope blog. “We are still in need of an understanding of the...
