Quick Test Detects Age-Related Eye Disease Early [video]

by Amantha May | August 7, 2020 | General News, Medical

By 2030, one in five United States residents will be retirement age, meaning that age-related illness will increasingly account for substantial healthcare costs. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the number one cause of severe, permanent vision loss in people...

Patients Have Less Back Pain with Digital App

by Bruce Brown | August 6, 2020 | Health

Does your back bother you? If it does, you’re not alone. According to the CDC, approximately 25% of U.S. adults report low back pain over the prior three months. Non-specific lower back pain (NLBP) is the most common pain reported and nearly 14% of insured...

Free Digital App Monitors COVID-19 Risk

by Bruce Brown | August 5, 2020 | Health

We often write about remote health monitoring technology for a variety of health conditions, rehab, post-surgery discharge, and more. This year the pandemic spurred the development of AI-based apps and devices for COVID-19 screening. For example, researchers from...

Wearables and AI Enlisted to Assess Endometriosis Pain Objectively

by Amantha May | August 5, 2020 | General News, Medical

[Photo by Anthony Tran on Unsplash] Endometriosis, a reproductive health condition affecting roughly 11% of adult women and teenagers in the United States, causes debilitating pain symptoms. A new partnership between Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. of Japan, and...

Thermal Image Sensing Tracks 3D Hand Positions [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

Researchers at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison working together at Cornell’s SciFi Lab developed FingerTrak, a potentially breakthrough wearable that tracks human hand motion in 3D. The SciFi Lab is a new interdisciplinary lab...

Wearable Helps Workers Keep Their Distance [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 3, 2020 | Health

Effective social distancing or controlled proximity is a keystone to a successful return to education and employment as most of us know it. If we can stay far enough away from each other long enough, health experts tell us, we’ll have our best chance to stem the...