by Alfred Poor | November 29, 2018 | General News, Health
Conventional wisdom says that people quickly tire of their fitness bands, and shove them into the back of a drawer somewhere. New research from Valencell paints a very different picture. An online survey provides an update for the study that the company conducted two...
by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2018 | General News, Health
A troublesome new study explores a potentially dangerous flaw in health tech user ratings, comments, and reviews. Timothy B. Plante from the Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont was the lead author of a study that found...
by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2018 | General News, Medical
The promise of Big Data is that if you can aggregate enough information, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can sift through it and find correlations that a human mind might never find in a lifetime of searching. We’ve covered how Google’s AI labs...
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by Bruce Brown | October 2, 2017 | General News, Medical
“We found dangerous cancer, and we need to operate immediately.” No one wants to hear those words. The fact that surgery can even be contemplated throws a faint light of hope. The next concern is whether the surgeons were able to find and remove all...
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by Bruce Brown | September 29, 2017 | General News, Health
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a versatile and powerful biometric. Wearable health tech companies rushed to create HRV monitors in many form factors. We wrote about Emfit Limited’s Emfit QS that unrolls and claims to measure HRV accurately through your mattress while...
