by Bruce Brown | November 1, 2018 | General News, Health
Pharmaceutical and mechanical methods for avoiding pregnancy have the highest effectiveness rates. New approaches that claim equivalent or better performance often use spotty science or dubious measurement reporting. We raised a flag when the FDA recently cleared a...
by Bruce Brown | October 15, 2018 | General News, Health
Every month we write about new technologies developed to monitor blood pressure. High blood pressure continues to plague Americans in massive proportions, affecting two-thirds of the U.S. adult population if you count both hypertension and prehypertension, says the...
by Bruce Brown | September 21, 2018 | General News, Medical
Artificial intelligence, especially in the form of machine learning, keeps popping up in reports and studies of new and developing health and medical technologies. We’ve written about machine learning used to target Huntington Disease, predict pain level, and...
by Bruce Brown | September 14, 2018 | General News, Medical
The escalating potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to wring out new diagnostic tools and uncover heretofore undiscovered relationships and causal factors from big data is exciting, heady stuff. Precisely because the oceans of data from galaxies of sensors can...
by Bruce Brown | September 13, 2018 | General News, Medical
The rapidly growing market for health and wellness wearable devices presents unprecedented opportunities for data analysis in the pursuit of greater understanding of health and disease. Teams of scientists, researchers, and engineers worldwide apply artificial...
