by Alfred Poor | July 7, 2015 | Medical
At least one out of every five people in the U.S. suffer from bruxism. If you’re not familiar with the term, it refers to grinding your teeth together, especially while you’re sleeping. It’s a major problem for some people, with secondary side...
by Alfred Poor | July 7, 2015 | Health, Medical
During his State of the of the Union address last January, President Obama called for the launching of a Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), intended to use Big Data approaches to find new ways to treat and cure diseases “like cancer and diabetes.” The...
by Alfred Poor | July 6, 2015 | Health, Medical
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one in three seniors fall each year resulting in more than $34 billion in healthcare costs. Nearly half of these falls occur away from the home. For this reason, many companies offer personal...
by Alfred Poor | July 6, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Whatever your opinion might be about the mess of worldwide patent systems that companies must navigate these days, it remains clear that there is a need to protect intellectual property. And in the wearable technology space, companies have been availing themselves of...
by Alfred Poor | July 3, 2015 | Health
The British company Aseptika has announced a new version of their Activ8rlives app that now supports Apple’s HealthKit. The “Health Monitoring and Food Diary” program version 3.2 collects user data that can be stored on the Activ8rlives web servers...
by Alfred Poor | July 3, 2015 | Health
Epson just announced that its Pulsense activity monitor has been chosen for a health promotion project. The Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) has chosen the Epson products for a program involving 70 students and faculty to start, with more participants to be...
