by Bruce Brown | July 25, 2022 | Medical
Australian digital health smartphone app company ResApp Health is not a stranger to long -time readers of Health Tech Insider. In 2016, we covered ResApp’s eponymous smartphone app that captures and identifies the sounds of coughs. ResApp uses machine learning...
by William McCleary | July 25, 2022 | Medical
As the world settles into life with COVID-19, treatment is becoming ever more important to stave off serious illnesses and hospitalizations. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized three COVID-19 treatments: monoclonal antibodies, Paxlovid, and...
by Unber Shafiq | July 25, 2022 | Medical
Pregnant women need appropriate glycemic management to maintain maternal and fetal wellbeing during gestation. The aim is to avoid complications, especially due to hypoglycemia which can be a problem for expectant mothers who have Type 1 diabetes (T1D). Subcutaneous...
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by William McCleary | July 22, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Health
Not all Kickstarter campaigns are equal. A brush that lets you lick your cat? A “BarfSuit” with a built-in sick bag? A fan-cooled spoon? They’re all real campaigns. And then there are Kickstarter campaigns backed by clinical trials, such as Tully’s...
by Bruce Brown | July 21, 2022 | Enabling Tech
The percentage of people who had diabetes in 2019 in the U.S. (11.3% or 37.3 million) and the world (9.3% or 463 million) continue to creep higher. Measuring blood glucose levels is part and parcel of managing diabetes. The worldwide demand for help for people with...
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by William McCleary | July 20, 2022 | Enabling Tech
It looks like we’ve gotten one step closer to science fiction becoming reality with a team from UCLA and the research institute SRI International creating artificial muscles that outperform human ones. Researchers say the new material is up to 10 times more...
