by Bruce Brown | January 8, 2016 | General News, Health
We’ve looked at several innovative technologies for measuring body temperature including the e-Celcius Performance pill, the STEMP Smart Temperature Patch, and the Vivalnk eSkin Thermometer. Each of these devices has unique applications, but in each case there...
by Bruce Brown | December 31, 2015 | General News, Health
[Image credit: IntelFreePress] While there are no universally accepted annual rates of cardiac arrest on the global level, one group estimates approximately 7 million incidents annually, with 50,000 in France alone. The latest (2015) American Heart Association...
by Bruce Brown | December 30, 2015 | General News, Health
Approximately 30 million adults and children in the U.S. have diabetes, with another 86 million estimated to be prediabetic. Once someone is diagnosed with the disease, regular blood glucose measurements are necessary, as often as four to eight times a day. It’s...
by Alfred Poor | December 8, 2015 | General News, Health
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of elderly in our population will experience “considerable growth” as Baby Boomers born in the 1940s and 1950s get older. They will also live longer than the generations that came before. The number of people...
by Bruce Brown | November 30, 2015 | General News, Health
Have you gone to the doctor with a mysterious but bothersome pain and found it was hard describe well enough for the physician to figure it out? It happened to me a few years ago when I had piriformis syndrome, an uncommon but extremely painful and difficult to...