by Bruce Brown | September 27, 2021 | Medical
As we’ve written many times, the optimal wearable is one you’re not aware of. If you can forget you’re wearing an assistive device, it’s less likely to end up in the back of some drawer. That’s why, when I describe the Widex Moment...
by Amantha May | September 24, 2021 | Medical
Researchers in Ireland have developed an implantable device that accelerates the healing of damaged tendons. Engineers at CÚRAM, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Medical Devices based at National Univerity of Ireland in Galway, studied how the...
by Bruce Brown | September 23, 2021 | Health
Therapy dogs can bring light into otherwise dark lives. Therapy dogs aren’t necessarily as highly trained as service dogs for visually impaired people, for example, but therapy dogs must have specific characteristics. Therapy dogs need to be...
by Unber Shafiq | September 22, 2021 | Health, Medical
With the ongoing pandemic and increasing demand for mental health support, we are in immediate need to have more accessible platforms for mental health. Ginger and Headspace, two digital platforms working to improve mental health and wellbeing, have announced their...
by Amantha May | September 22, 2021 | Health, Medical
The United States has a significantly higher maternal mortality rate than any other developed nation in the world. Pregnancy-related mortality has increased in the US every year since 2000. Yet proper maternal health care could have prevented more than half of these...
by Bruce Brown | September 21, 2021 | Health, Medical
We’ve been covering wearable ECG devices since 2014 when Alfred Poor wrote about the Zio XT Service ECG patch monitor. Among other developments in ECG, in 2019 we noted VivaQuant‘s RX-1 Rhythm Express wearable arrhythmia device. More recently I had hands on...
