by Alfred Poor | April 20, 2016 | General News, Health
About 400 million people worldwide suffer from either asthma or COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and the numbers are rising rapidly every year. Medication delivered in the form of aerosol sprays can be effective in treating the symptoms, but studies show...
by Alfred Poor | April 12, 2016 | General News, Medical
One of the fundamental precepts of the U.S. legal system is “Ignorantia juris non excusat,” which means that ignorance of the law is no excuse. This can pose a significant challenge for someone who wants to produce a new product or service, because...
by Alfred Poor | April 11, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable sensors are able to provide an increasingly detailed measure of what is going on in a patient’s body from minute to minute. In addition to vital signs, all sorts of biometric measures including chemical biomarkers can be sensed and recorded. This...
by Alfred Poor | March 17, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
The problems involved in keeping a heart disease patient alive are complex and interconnected. Keeping a heart beating can require muscular, electrical, and medicinal treatments. A pacemaker by itself is not enough, nor are pharmaceuticals. Researchers at Tel Aviv...
by Alfred Poor | January 26, 2016 | General News, Medical
I could go on a lot longer, but this will be my final post that is directly about what I saw at CES 2016. This entry is a bit unusual, because I learned something important about the pharmaceutical industry when I visited the booth of a display technology company....