by Bruce Brown | July 18, 2018 | General News, Health
Cognitive functioning — an individual’s ability to think and to learn — has multiple components. Cognition involves reasoning, memory, attention, language, and more. The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) established the Healthy Brain...
by Bruce Brown | April 25, 2018 | General News, Health
Healthy longevity is more than a buzzword. Living to an exceptionally old age has little appeal if the final decades are spent in illness, pain, and isolation. The CDC’s Healthy Aging Portal is replete with data, reports, and additional resources on the subject....
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,...
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by Alfred Poor | August 24, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Modern medicine can provide effective treatment for a huge number of diseases and conditions. The problem is that these treatments cannot be applied until the problem has been successfully diagnosed. And in many cases, diagnosis relies on the analysis of blood, urine,...
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by Bruce Brown | November 23, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Biomarkers in human sweat could be used to monitor a patient’s health without blood samples if the sweat sample collection and measurement can be controlled. A multi-institution research team led by John Rogers of the McCormick School of Engineering and...
