by Bruce Brown | March 14, 2017 | General News, Health
Does it matter if children spend a lot of time watching television and looking at electronic device screens? The American Academy of Pediatrics says children in the U.S spend an average of seven hours a day on entertainment media, including televisions, computers,...
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by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2017 | General News, Health
Approximately 1.6 billion people in the world have diabetes or prediabetes, according to World Health Organization figures. Of that immense number, only 1 in 20 of those have Type 1, the autoimmune form of the disease. The remainder of diabetics and virtually all...
by Bruce Brown | March 6, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
The rate of new cases of diabetes may have plateaued, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, 35 percent of Americans live with diabetes (29 million) or prediabetes (86 million), making the disease a continuing major health threat....
by Bruce Brown | March 1, 2017 | General News, Medical
Diabetes is a global pandemic afflicting more than 420 million people, according to the Word Health Organization (WHO). Diabetics face a lifetime of checking blood glucose levels and calculating and injecting the necessary amount of insulin. Artificial pancreas...
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by Bruce Brown | February 27, 2017 | General News, Medical
We’ve covered various clever glucose monitoring systems: Integrity Applications’ GlucoTrack ear clip device, Dario’s Blood Glucose Monitoring System handheld system, and the NovioSense device that reads glucose levels from tears. The massive need to track...
