by Bruce Brown | January 30, 2019 | Health
Wearable skin patches with microfluidic sensors can monitor various biometrics from sweat. Professor John Rogers from Northwestern University’s Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics is one of the leaders in the field. Last year we wrote about Rogers’ work...
by Bruce Brown | July 25, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
We’ve written about skin patch biosensors in a range of applications from UV exposure detection to atrial fibrillation monitoring. Researchers and medical device and supply companies investigating skin patch wearables focus on the advantages of the patch form...
by Alfred Poor | November 21, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
One of the recurring themes here at Health Tech Insider is that consumer purchases will give way to large-scale enterprise purchases in the wearable technology industry. Already, we are seeing deals resulting in sales of 10,000 units or more fitness bands at a time. A...
by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2017 | General News, Medical
Respiratory depression leading to death under sedation remains one of the greatest dangers of anesthesia, 170 years since William Thomas Green Morton demonstrated the controlled use of ether to produce insensitivity to pain Massachusetts’s General Hospital in...
by Alfred Poor | August 22, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
Rumors of the death of digital wearables are greatly exagerated. The wearables industry is still a frothy, exciting, and dynamic phenomenon, with fast-paced change, fierce competition, and innovation that continues to receive a lot of attention and funding from...
