Pain Relief Device Gets Upgrade [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 6, 2019 | Health

As concerns grow about the abuse of pain medications, professionals and patients are looking first to non-chemical solutions. We saw several products in this category at CES 2019, including the Quell product from Neurometrix. We’ve reported on this product in...

“All of Us” Can Pull Fitbit Data

by Bruce Brown | February 5, 2019 | General News

In January, the National Institute of Health’s “All of Us” program added a significant data collection channel. The NIH’s big data research program compiles and analyzes health and medical information from volunteers, with the goal of enrolling...

Another Smart Mouth Guard Tracks Head Impacts

by Alfred Poor | February 5, 2019 | Health

According to UPMC Sports Medicine, people involved in sports and recreation suffer 1.7 to 3 million concussions every year in the U.S. and half of them go unreported and undetected. (For those who may be interested, about 10% to 20% of these are football-related.) We...

Digital Musculoskeletal Care Outperforms Traditional Treatment

by Bruce Brown | February 4, 2019 | Health

Lower back pain is a common, chronic condition that shows no sign of abating. Desk workers hunched over computers and people who are overweight frequently develop aching backs. The condition often is accompanied by related comorbidity factors, the worst of which may...

Digital Pills Improve Chemo Outcomes

by Bruce Brown | February 4, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Medical

Smart pills represent a new way to combine technologies in which each element in the stack plays a critical role. The essential components of digital medications include a drug, an ingestible sensor, a wearable patch that receives data from the ingestible sensor, and...

Breath Reveals Weight Loss [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 4, 2019 | Health

We are familiar with all sorts of biometric tests that can give us information about our health. Blood tests are a routine part of most checkups, and other body components can be analyzed to reveal insights about possible diseases and other conditions. Many...