by Alfred Poor | December 3, 2018 | General News, Health
Part of a worldwide epidemic, more than 72,000 people in the U.S. died from drug overdoses in 2017. Opioid pain killers — both prescribed and illicit — pay a major role in this statistic. The FDA is actively involved in addressing this crisis. One part of...
by Bruce Brown | November 30, 2018 | General News, Medical
Strokes are the number one cause of death for Americans, according to the CDC. Responsible for 5% of the deaths each year, strokes kill more than 130,000 people annually in the U.S. Strokes aren’t all the same, however, and some types are more deadly than...
by Alfred Poor | November 30, 2018 | General News, Health
One of the themes that we repeat here at Health Tech Insider is our market analysis that the wearables market is shifting. Instead of selling single units to individual consumers, companies will sell tens or hundreds (or thousands) of units at a time to large...
by Bruce Brown | November 29, 2018 | General News, Medical
Even if you’re not claustrophobic, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans can be discomforting. It’s important that you lie very still and breathe normally for anywhere from 10 to 80 minutes while loud noises explode, sounding like you imagine a space...
by Alfred Poor | November 29, 2018 | General News, Health
Conventional wisdom says that people quickly tire of their fitness bands, and shove them into the back of a drawer somewhere. New research from Valencell paints a very different picture. An online survey provides an update for the study that the company conducted two...
by Bruce Brown | November 28, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
The very early typing machine at the top of this article represented a significant advance for the written word. Without pushing the comparison too far, Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced a natural language processing service developed to transform...
