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by Alfred Poor | March 2, 2017 | General News, Health
Many people confined to a wheelchair must deal with frustrating limitations. The bulky chair cannot fit in tight spaces, and while seated, the user cannot reach items that require them to be standing. A new product can help solve these problems and more. Numotion has...
by Alfred Poor | March 1, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
In this week’s Health Tech podcast, you can hear about a transistor that uses heat as the switching signal instead of electricity, about a standby switch that uses zero power, and about how stomach acid can be used to power smart pills and other ingestible devices....
by Bruce Brown | March 1, 2017 | General News, Medical
Diabetes is a global pandemic afflicting more than 420 million people, according to the Word Health Organization (WHO). Diabetics face a lifetime of checking blood glucose levels and calculating and injecting the necessary amount of insulin. Artificial pancreas...
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by Alfred Poor | March 1, 2017 | General News, Health
According to recommendations by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), working in an environment of 85 decibels (dB) for eight hours will expose you to the maximum allowed daily dose of sound. How loud is 85 db? It’s quieter than most...
by Bruce Brown | February 28, 2017 | General News, Health
Collaborations in wearable health technology keep cropping up. In 2016 we reported on Cambridge Cognition and Ctrl Group’s wearable software development platform called Cognition Kit. The platform focuses on how physical and psychological factors affect...
by Alfred Poor | February 28, 2017 | General News, Medical
In the U.S. alone, we spend up to $300 billion extra every year in unnecessary healthcare costs, simply because people do not take their medications as prescribed. When you consider that more than half of the people in the country live with at least one chronic...
