by William McCleary | October 25, 2022 | Enabling Tech
It’s something that more than 6 million Americans face every day: Alzheimer’s disease. And their numbers are expected to rise to around 13 million by the year 2050. Today, more than 1 in 10 Americans over the age of 65 have the disease, but tracking the...
by Unber Shafiq | October 25, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Oral administration is unquestionably the most common method of drug delivery; it’s easy to simply swallow a pill. However, peptide and protein drugs cannot be administered this way. One of the major causes why large protein drugs are so difficult to administer...
by Bruce Brown | October 25, 2022 | Health
We’ve been covering the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aid Act since 2017 when the Senate first approved the law. Despite many would-be market starters, in early 2018, Nuheara’s IQbuds were the first OTC hearables to hit the market for online sales. As of...
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by Bruce Brown | October 24, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Recent advances in robotic prosthesis technologies include a sense of touch, greater range of motion, and brain-to-computer interfaces (BCI) that enable a user to control movement by thinking. Poland-based Clone Incorporated Is leaping forward with biomimetic robotic...
by William McCleary | October 24, 2022 | Medical
Got anxiety? If so, you’re in good company. It’s estimated that as many as 1 in 5 U.S. adults suffer from an anxiety disorder, spanning a broad range from generalized anxiety and social anxiety disorder to more severe obsessive-compulsive disorder,...
by William McCleary | October 21, 2022 | Enabling Tech
They’re heralding it as the “world’s first mesh (nanomesh) structured electronic skin device.” And its makers, researchers at South Korea’s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), say the device represents a leap forward...
