by Bruce Brown | January 27, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Is it a freckle, a benign cancer, or a malignant time bomb about to go off? Dermatologists train in part by looking at thousands of images of skin abnormalities as one part of their diagnostic training. Doctors use much more than a single image to make their...
by Bruce Brown | January 10, 2017 | General News, Medical
Starting way before royal physicians smelled the stools and urine of infant noblemen, doctors have used their sense of smell to detect disease. According to an article in Scientific American, physicians have “known that the breath contains clues to many...
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by Bruce Brown | November 29, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable health tech takes a giant step further with stretchable devices that can attach to the skin. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Colorado Boulder, in conjunction with other institutions, have developed a tiny, soft, wearable...
by Alfred Poor | October 27, 2016 | General News, Medical
Telemedicine has the potential to save lives and improve outcomes while driving down overall healthcare costs. One possible avenue to these gains is to avoid expensive and time-consuming office or hospital visits by sending healthcare workers to the homes of patients...
by Alfred Poor | October 11, 2016 | General News, Health
Parkinson’s is a chronic and progressive disease of the brain that leads to tremors and other muscle control difficulties, and eventually can result in severe disability and dementia. While there is no cure yet, healthcare professionals can use medications to...
