by Bruce Brown | February 6, 2018 | General News, Health
Biosensor devices that can detect specific biomarkers are key components in mobile health tech. In order to be truly useful, however, they must measure well against the current gold standard in medical grade technologies. University and corporate laboratories...
by Kimberly Houston | December 19, 2017 | General News, Health
In Finland, there’s a well-know tradition known as the “Finnish Baby Box.” Since 1938, every pregnant woman in Finland has received a box from the Finnish government that functions as a “starter kit” for their new baby. The box contains clothes, socks, diapers, a bath...
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by Alfred Poor | May 3, 2017 | General News, Medical
Owlstone Medical’s website has an ambitious mission statement right at the top of the home page: “To save 100,000 lives and $1.5B in healthcare costs.” It takes confidence to put hard numbers like that in a mission statement, but the company backs it...
by Bruce Brown | January 10, 2017 | General News, Medical
Starting way before royal physicians smelled the stools and urine of infant noblemen, doctors have used their sense of smell to detect disease. According to an article in Scientific American, physicians have “known that the breath contains clues to many...
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by Alfred Poor | September 12, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
Apnea is a condition in which the subject stops breathing. Most people are familiar with it in adults, especially as associated with snoring during sleep. However, most babies born at less that 35 weeks have periods where they stop breathing, which can result in a...
