by Bruce Brown | January 26, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Our vision changes with age. Even if we have perfect vision in our youth and young adulthood, by 45 the aging process typically starts to gradually degrade our eyes’ ability to focus accurately. The degradation is a gradual process which means there are two...
by Alfred Poor | January 26, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
We’ve written about LumiWave before; the company makes arrays of infrared-emitting LEDs to provide pain relief and speed healing. The company has scientific research that shows this treatment can be beneficial even for bone fractures and hard-to-heal tissues...
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by Bruce Brown | January 25, 2017 | General News, Health
When the French health tech company Withings was purchased by Finnish communications giant Nokia last year, the Nokia president Ramzi Haidamus stated that Withings would be running the entire digital health business. Withings’ penchant for collaborating with...
by Alfred Poor | January 25, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
Wearable devices now routinely track heart beats (though some do so with more accuracy than others), but one biometric measure remains elusive: blood pressure (BP). There are plenty of automated blood pressure cuffs on the market, including models that will...
by Alfred Poor | January 25, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical, Podcast
Health Tech Insider Editor Alfred Poor shares more observations about wearables at CES 2017. In this episode, he describes a new service that uses augmented reality (AR) glasses to provide a sighted companion on demand for blind people, and a product that converts any...
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by Bruce Brown | January 24, 2017 | General News, Medical
Sometimes the same technology designed to help people extracts a high cost. It has long been established that when stroke or Parkinson’s Disease patients walk, they use more energy than healthy individuals: as much as 70 percent more. In the last 10 years,...
