by Alfred Poor | September 6, 2016 | Health, Medical
As our population ages, our society faces the challenges of how to support and care for our older citizens. For many good reasons — not the least of which are saving on healthcare and other costs — seniors want to live independently in their own homes as...
by Bruce Brown | August 19, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
Earlier this year we wrote about a collaboration between Cambridge Cognition and Ctrl Group to develop “apps using a wearable device to monitor real-time activity, sleep, communication, media habits, and more.” Well, they’ve done it. Called the...
by Bruce Brown | August 18, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Traditional imaging technologies require the subject to lie as still as possible. The payoff is in the form of highly detailed images of the inner structures of whatever is scanned. Unfortunately, this means that it is not possible to scan body parts while the person...
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by Alfred Poor | July 8, 2016 | General News, Medical
We’ve covered devices that are designed to send electrical currents through your head (such as “Coffee, Tea, or Thync?”) but this is about a product that uses magnetic fields instead. Brainsway has created a padded helmet that a patient wears for...
by Bruce Brown | July 6, 2016 | General News, Health
If you’ve been considering whole body cryotherapy (WBC), you might want to give it a second thought. The FDA has issued a consumer update about whole body cryotherapy. The update states unequivocably that whole body cryotherapy not been proven to be...
