Take Control of Your Natural Stress Response [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 28, 2016 | General News, Health

  A little bit of stress can be good for us. Performance stress or stress in the face of perceived threats lead to action, sometimes even life-saving, by increasing the heart rate and breathing, tensing muscles, and improving blood flow to the brain. Our immune...

Tablet-Based Hearing Test [video]

by Alfred Poor | November 28, 2016 | General News, Medical

Hearing loss can affect people of all ages. For the elderly, it can lead to social isolation and frustration with trying to communicate. For children, it can cause a serious barrier to learning, especially in a classroom setting. As a result, it is important that...

Wearable Aims to Silence Snoring [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 25, 2016 | General News, Health

Emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and biosensors that respond to heat, blood content, breath, and sweat can be as fascinating as they are forward-looking. Occasionally, however, we come across a practical, wearable health tech product that relates...

Low Cost Synthetic Muscle from Nylon Fibers [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 24, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Nylon fiber has a new powerful new application; it can be used to make artificial muscle fibers, according to the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Muscles expand and contract and previous artificial muscles do that as well. Real muscles, however, also bend,...

Sweat Patch Monitors Health with “Lab on the Skin” [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 23, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Biomarkers in human sweat could be used to monitor a patient’s health without blood samples if the sweat sample collection and measurement can be controlled. A multi-institution research team led by John Rogers of the McCormick School of Engineering and...

Smart Socks Monitor Your Foot Temperature [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 22, 2016 | General News, Health

Unfortunately, the news about diabetes in the U.S. remains bleak. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of diabetes in the United States continue to rise. The CDC projects that by 2050 1 of every 3 American adults could have the...