by Alfred Poor | September 12, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Nearly all our electricity comes from mechanical energy; a flow of liquid or gas passes a propeller or similar device, which spins magnets in a coil of wire to produce an electrical current. This is the basic technology behind hydroelectric, coal, gas, nuclear, and...
by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
If you go to the hospital or your doctor’s office with a problem, you can generally expect to get weighed, measured, and have your temperature, pulse, and blood pressure taken. If you have a complaint with no readily apparent answer, you know what comes next:...
by Alfred Poor | June 13, 2017 | General News, Medical
Frequent readers of Health Tech Insider will know that I often bang the drum calling for more scientific evidence that wearables and other mobile health technology can actually produce the improved health outcomes and reduced costs that many of us (reasonably) expect...
by Alfred Poor | April 21, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
The eyes may be the window to the soul, but a substance as prosaic as sweat could provide a way to measure a wide range of hidden activities going on in your body. We tend to think of sweat as salty water (if we think about it at all), but the fact is that it is a...
by Bruce Brown | April 3, 2017 | General News, Medical
You may not know anyone who has had a lung transplant, but that doesn’t mean they are rare or unique. In 2015 for the first time, more than 30,000 transplants were performed in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Health Organ Procurement and...
