by Bruce Brown | October 15, 2018 | General News, Health
Every month we write about new technologies developed to monitor blood pressure. High blood pressure continues to plague Americans in massive proportions, affecting two-thirds of the U.S. adult population if you count both hypertension and prehypertension, says the...
by Bruce Brown | August 16, 2018 | General News, Medical
Subjective reporting about healthy behaviors results in data that are shaky at best and outright wrong and misleading in the worst cases. A metastudy of medical adherence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published in 2014 found patient noncompliance...
by Alfred Poor | June 12, 2018 | General News, Medical
In 2017, nearly half a trillion dollars was spent on prescription drugs in the U.S. alone. This amount is forecast to grow by up to 5% in 2018. Clearly, a lot of money can be saved simply by making prescription drugs more effective. Unfortunately, serious obstacles...
by Bruce Brown | September 20, 2017 | General News, Health
Wearables that produce clinical-grade data cannot play significant roles in wellness programs and chronic condition care plans if patients don’t wear them as prescribed. According to a report by the American College of Preventive Medicine,...
by Bruce Brown | June 27, 2017 | General News, Health
Upper limb functional difficulties involving just the hand, portions of the arm, or the whole arm can arise from a variety of conditions. Paralysis following a stroke is a common cause of upper limb difficulty but you can also lose strength, flexibility, and movement...
