Buddi Wearable in Trial to Prevent Type II Diabetes

by Bruce Brown | August 22, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

King’s Health Partners estimates that one in three adults in the U.K. currently prediabetic. These people are at a greater than average risk of developing Type II diabetes. The group totals about 15.4 million people. Today in the U.K. Type II diabetes results in...

Cognition Kit Study Shows Clear Patterns of Cognitive Function

by Bruce Brown | August 19, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

Earlier this year we wrote about a collaboration between Cambridge Cognition and Ctrl Group to develop “apps using a wearable device to monitor real-time activity, sleep, communication, media habits, and more.” Well, they’ve done it. Called the...

Wearable Brain Scanning to Understand Ill, Healthy, and Exceptional Brains

by Bruce Brown | August 18, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Traditional imaging technologies require the subject to lie as still as possible. The payoff is in the form of highly detailed images of the inner structures of whatever is scanned. Unfortunately, this means that it is not possible to scan body parts while the person...

Smartphone Integrated Glucose Monitoring System [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 17, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

Type I and Type II diabetics who need to test blood glucose levels daily typically have to take the readings from two to eight times a day. Getting accurate readings, keeping track of readings over time, and sharing the information with caregivers take time and...

MIT and Microsoft Develop On-skin Interfaces [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 16, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Advances in on-skin devices to capture, store, and communicate data proliferated in the past two years. Health Tech Insider has covered temporary tattoos used to read blood alcohol content, check blood glucose levels, and monitor vital signs among other applications....

Pendant Detects Peanuts and Other Food Allergens [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 15, 2016 | General News, Health

  Food allergies cause 200,000 emergency room visits in the U.S. annually, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. In a study by the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, hidden allergens were the cause of nearly...