by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2018 | General News, Health
Profound visual impairment in our increasingly visual world disenfranchises blind or partially sighted people. According to a statistic from the U.K.’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), sight loss costs the country nearly $6 billion annually due...
by Bruce Brown | January 5, 2018 | General News, Medical
While developers push forward with new health tech, other research teams on the hunt for solutions for specific medical conditions or health problems sometimes find new uses for existing technology. That’s what happened at MyoKardia, a South San Francisco-based...
by Bruce Brown | December 13, 2017 | General News, Medical
Health tech devices and software aren’t developing in a vacuum. Big data analytics and artificial intelligence including machine learning significantly boost the potential healthcare improvement with sensor-based technology. Voice analysis of huge sample sets,...
by Kimberly Houston | December 13, 2017 | General News, Medical
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, neuropsychiatric disorders are the leading cause of disability in the U.S. Neuropsychiatric conditions include OCD, anxiety, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, mood disorders like bipolar disorder,...
by Kimberly Houston | November 29, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
Wearables such as Fitbit, Apple Watch, and other fitness devices that can potentially lead to better health are ubiquitous these days. The ability to monitor weight, sleep function, steps taken, calories burned, and more has motivated many people to get and stay...