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by Alfred Poor | May 3, 2017 | General News, Medical
Owlstone Medical’s website has an ambitious mission statement right at the top of the home page: “To save 100,000 lives and $1.5B in healthcare costs.” It takes confidence to put hard numbers like that in a mission statement, but the company backs it...
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by Alfred Poor | April 17, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
It sounds tempting: a watch that can monitor and record multiple biometric and environmental measures including electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate, skin electrical activity, and motion. It runs for up to a week on a single charge. It stores enough data for a week or...
by Alfred Poor | March 7, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health
As we’ve been saying, the trajectory for wearable Health Tech devices is going to be away from the products limited to fitness tracking, and toward more health and medical measurements that will be helpful in diagnosing illness in the early stages when treatment...
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by Bruce Brown | February 1, 2017 | General News, Health
In 2014, we wrote about the launch of Samsung’s Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC)’s wellness platform. In 2016, we covered the introduction of the group’s multifunction megachip, ready for applications. This chip has a new application that makes...
by Alfred Poor | October 13, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
“Horses sweat, men perspire, and women glow.” This holdover from the Victorian era may be guilty of splitting hairs at the expense of science, but the fact remains that the natural secretions of human skin are much more than just salt water. They are a...
