by Bruce Brown | March 20, 2017 | General News, Health
Emotional well-being encompasses mental, social, and physical domains. Since 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Health-Related Quality of Life Program has led an effort to examine how well-being can be integrated into health promotion...
by Bruce Brown | September 12, 2016 | General News, Health
We’ve previously written about the ReWalk exoskeleton. The same group has a new company, UpnRide Robotics. The new firm’s single product is a self-stabilizing wheelchair called the UpnRide that shifts from sitting to upright position and can travel over...
by Bruce Brown | August 26, 2016 | General News, Health
Wearable tech developments for fitness and health applications sparked a wave of wristbands, headbands, necklaces and lanyards, pins and brooches, and belt packs in the past few years. Starting with step counters and thermometers, an ever-wider variety of biosensors...
by Bruce Brown | June 9, 2016 | General News, Medical
Ordinarily on Health Tech Insider, we write about new or emerging technology related to health or medical application that you wear, carry, hold, sometimes ingest, and occasionally have implanted. This is not one of those articles. In fact, the appeal of this...
by Alfred Poor | November 6, 2015 | General News, Health, Medical
“Asleep at the wheel” is a dangerous situation for the driver, passengers, and occupants of other vehicles on the road or even bystanders. A heart attack or other cardiovascular emergency can also result in sudden incapacitation that can have deadly...