by Bruce Brown | June 2, 2022 | Health
Before COVID-19, I don’t remember reading about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA). After the nearly two and half years of pandemic response, EUA is now common parlance in the health tech industry. The FDA...
by Bruce Brown | November 18, 2021 | Medical
We’ve covered a smattering of COVID-19 detection technologies that use voice samples, smart rings, smartphone apps that listen to coughs, and even fitness band data. In late October, OSU announced that researchers from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical...
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 Bruce Brown | January 3, 2018 | General News, Health
Wearable pharmaceutical research and development usually focus on appropriate drug release. Drug delivery devices can help with patient compliance, dosage timing, and automatic dosing in response to biometric sensing. We’ve written about magnetically-controlled...
by Bruce Brown | December 7, 2016 | General News, Health
Prior to the interest in high protein diets, tracking ketone levels has long been an important health indicator for specific diseases and health conditions. Ketones are a class of organic compound that occurs when the liver breaks down fatty acids to produce energy...