COVID Breath Test Now Has Emergency Approval [video]

by Bruce Brown | June 2, 2022 | Health

Before COVID-19, I don’t remember reading about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA). After the nearly two and half years of pandemic response, EUA is now common parlance in the health tech industry. The FDA...

New Fuel Cell Design Uses Body’s Sugar to Power Implants

by William McCleary | June 1, 2022 | Enabling Tech

If our body’s cells are powered by the glucose that we get from the food that we eay, why not sugar-powered fuel cells for medical implants and wearables? That’s the question that’s been asked and mostly answered by researchers at MIT and the...

Perform Ear Exams at Home with New Smartphone Device [video]

by Unber Shafiq | June 1, 2022 | Health, Medical

Remote patient care has become a big part of the new normal, but remote physical exams are still much less prevalent. We recently covered the MedWand device that collects vital data remotely. Children’s TYLENOL has developed a similar technology specifically for...

Computer Exercises Help with Recovery from Brain Injury

by Bruce Brown | May 31, 2022 | Medical

Are you ready for some good news? Let’s start with a blunt reality. “We know very little about the brain,” writer Vivian Lam quoted Neurosurgery Professor Lu Chen in Stanford Medicine’s Scope blog. “We are still in need of an understanding of the...

New Partnership to De-escalate Mental Health Crises

by Unber Shafiq | May 31, 2022 | Health, Medical

Mental health has remained the topic of discussion throughout May as it is being celebrated as the National Mental Health Month. Companies all across the US were raising awareness about mental health. We learned that the percentage of people suffering from symptoms of...

New Eye-Tracking Tech Comes to iPads [video]

by William McCleary | May 30, 2022 | Health, Medical

Apple has given Made for iPad certification to Hiru, an eye-tracking device that launched in 2020 with compatibility only with Windows platforms. Now the interactive device from the Spanish startup Irisbond also works with the iPad operating systems iPadOS 15 and...