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by Alfred Poor | December 3, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
As we’ve written about here many times before, wearable Health Tech devices pose a new set of challenges when it comes to user interface controls. The small (or even invisible) devices are not well suited for the traditional computer controls of keyboard, touch...
by Bruce Brown | December 2, 2015 | General News, Medical
Progressive neuromuscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) often rob patients of muscular control early on and get progressively worse, while spinal cord injury can halt mobility immediately. The loss of functional...
by Alfred Poor | December 2, 2015 | General News, Medical
Nanoparticles have exciting potential applications in health and medical tasks, from delivering drugs to targeted cells, to monitoring specific toxins or biomarkers in the body. But this then raises the question, how do you monitor these to make sure that they are...
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by Bruce Brown | December 1, 2015 | General News, Health
Nothing’s worse for a parent than a sick kid. You want to care for them, you want them to get better quickly, and you want to let them rest. When they feel particularly lousy, they often don’t even want to be bothered or touched, which can make it...
by Alfred Poor | December 1, 2015 | Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
Health Tech Insider focuses on the health and medical applications of wearable technology, leaving the broad and largely consumer-based fitness market for others to cover (including our sister publication, Wearable Tech Insider). However, the lines between fitness...
by Bruce Brown | November 30, 2015 | General News, Health
Have you gone to the doctor with a mysterious but bothersome pain and found it was hard describe well enough for the physician to figure it out? It happened to me a few years ago when I had piriformis syndrome, an uncommon but extremely painful and difficult to...
