Fitbit Data Predicts Adverse Events for Cancer Patients

by Bruce Brown | August 16, 2018 | General News, Medical

Subjective reporting about healthy behaviors results in data that are shaky at best and outright wrong and misleading in the worst cases. A metastudy of medical adherence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published in 2014 found patient noncompliance...

VR Hypnosis as Alternate for Pain Management

by Alfred Poor | August 16, 2018 | General News, Medical

“Mind over matter; if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” That is a gross oversimplification of a new approach to patient pain management: hypnosis. Medical hypnosis has long been used as a tool to help patients with pain, stress, and anxiety....

$25 Ventilator Saves Premature Babies [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 15, 2018 | General News, Medical

Each year approximately 15 million babies worldwide are born preterm, according to the World Health Organization. Defined as birth before completing 37 weeks of gestation, preterm birth and the associated complications are the leading cause of death among children...

Smart Pill Pack to Improve Adherence

by Alfred Poor | August 15, 2018 | General News, Medical

For many reasons, people fail to take their prescription drugs as instructed. Sometimes they forget. Sometimes they don’t want to (or can’t) spend the money to buy the medications. For whatever the reason, however, the estimates for the increased...

Digital Health Investment Funding Smashes Records

by Bruce Brown | August 14, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical

Venture capital Investment in digital health continues to grow as the industry matures. Rock Health published a midyear 2018 report on venture funding which found sustained growth that the group described as indicative of “a stable, emerging investment...

All of Sweden’s Hospitals Get Pocket-Sized Ultrasound

by Alfred Poor | August 14, 2018 | General News, Medical

Mobile medicine is advancing by leaps and bounds. One of the most important diagnostic tools available to healthcare professionals is digital imaging. Having the ability to peer safely inside a living body to identify injury or infection has transformed medical...