by Bruce Brown | May 31, 2022 | Medical
Are you ready for some good news? Let’s start with a blunt reality. “We know very little about the brain,” writer Vivian Lam quoted Neurosurgery Professor Lu Chen in Stanford Medicine’s Scope blog. “We are still in need of an understanding of the...
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by Bruce Brown | May 23, 2022 | Medical
Smartphone cameras and apps may soon be indispensable for health and medicine, especially for digital healthcare at home. Clinical-grade biometric sensors, machine-taught algorithms, and cloud-based healthcare platforms empower new smartphone apps to play increasingly...
by Bruce Brown | October 19, 2021 | Health
Much of the wellness and health technology we cover starts in a university or private lab when someone asks themselves a “What if we could…?” question. Some of the survivors of rigorous design and testing cycles then come to life as consumer health...
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by Bruce Brown | February 8, 2018 | General News, Medical
Researchers and scientists worldwide tackle Alzheimer’s Disease’s high threat status for aging adults. The gradually debilitating disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.; it kills more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined....
by Bruce Brown | March 30, 2017 | General News, Health
As our aging population increases, the incidence of mental health problems, memory issues, and cognitive disabilities increases as well. The World Health Organization predicts brain and cognitive health will cost $6 trillion annually by 2030. Early in 2016, we wrote...
