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by Amantha May | June 22, 2020 | Health
The middle school years present challenges for adolescent girls and those challenges can have a lasting impact on the way girls feel about themselves and their abilities. Moxie Girl, a new app designed for adolescents and teens, aims to help girls build confidence and...
by Bruce Brown | June 19, 2020 | Health, Medical
The unforeseen COVID-19 pandemic continues to shake the world, setting conditions for unexpected change. We have no absolute sense of when the pandemic will fade, disappear, or continue in a series of waves, but we see and hear about the tragedy and harm it causes....
by Amantha May | June 19, 2020 | Health
If your clothing could speak, what would it say? Researchers at Tufts University’s School of Engineering would like to empower wearable fabric to speak volumes about an individual’s health. The research team developed biomaterial-based inks that sense chemicals...
by Bruce Brown | June 18, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Cambridge-based Shimmer Research announced that the Open Wearables Initiative (OWEAR) has launched a rich open-source software and validated dataset resource for developers working on wearable sensors and connected health technologies. Clinical researchers who use the...
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by Bruce Brown | June 17, 2020 | Medical
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices improve the lives of people with diabetes by minimizing or eliminating the need for painful and inconvenient finger stick blood glucose tests. We’ve written about CGMs from several companies and research organizations,...
by Amantha May | June 17, 2020 | Health, Medical
Workplace wearables for social distancing continue to make headlines as more and more businesses reopen their operations. Tharsus, a UK-based maker of strategic machines, announced that they have developed a new, comprehensive social-distancing system called Bump....
