by Alfred Poor | January 2, 2015 | Health
An new Harris poll commissioned by A&D Medical discloses that two out of three Americans are concerned about their weight, according to a MedCity News article. Only about half of those surveyed, however, were concerned about their blood pressure. And just over one...
by Alfred Poor | December 8, 2014 | Health, Medical
Wearable Health Tech devices can produce wonderful benefits; they can deliver a wealth of information about an individual in real time, around the clock. But in some situations, a wearable device can be intrusive and inconvenient. Miniaturization may be able to...
by Alfred Poor | November 26, 2014 | Health, Medical
When it comes to gathering, the honeybee is perhaps the most tireless and focused animal on the planet. Perhaps that’s why it was chosen as the namesake for a program by researchers at Arizona State University. Project HoneyBee is a program intended to validate...
by Alfred Poor | November 18, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Between smartphones and the Internet of Things, the demand for digital electronic sensors is growing rapidly. Your typical smartphone is packed with cameras, light sensors, microphones, accelerometers, and gyroscopes. The cost of these devices is falling almost as...
by Alfred Poor | November 10, 2014 | Fitness, Health
We have written about Proteus Digital Health before (see “Want Chips with Those Pills?”) covering their microchips for tracking patient medication. This time, however, the company apparently has a new product in the works strictly for athletes who want to...