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by Bruce Brown | June 13, 2017 | Fitness, Health
Stress takes an enormous toll on many people. The American Psychological Association reports that 75% of adults report experiencing moderate to high stress levels in the previous month. We’ve covered a smart bra that detects stress, the role of wearables in...
by Alfred Poor | June 13, 2017 | General News, Medical
Frequent readers of Health Tech Insider will know that I often bang the drum calling for more scientific evidence that wearables and other mobile health technology can actually produce the improved health outcomes and reduced costs that many of us (reasonably) expect...
by Bruce Brown | June 12, 2017 | General News, Health
U.S statistics for hypertension are daunting. According to a 2015 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, one third of all adults age 20 and above have high blood pressure. The CDC also reported 9.5 deaths per 100,000 population from essential...
by Alfred Poor | June 12, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
We hear sounds thanks to our eardrums; sound waves create varying amounts of pressure on the eardrum, and these vibrations are transmitted to the inner ear where nerves translate these vibrations to sensations that we perceive as sound. A microphone works in a similar...
by Bruce Brown | June 9, 2017 | General News, Medical
Implanted pacemakers have helped millions of people since Wilson Greatbatch accidentally invented them in the 1950s while building a device to record the sounds of a working heart. At that time heart pacemakers were huge external devices and often shocked...
by Alfred Poor | June 9, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
Mary Meeker is a venture capitalist with the firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), and is known for her intensive and extensive annual presentations on Internet Trends. In her report this year, she spent a portion of her presentation on the impact of the...
