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by Jim Ware | November 8, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
One of the $125,000 winners in the 2017 Pitt Innovation Challenge uses good vibrations from a wearable device to help veterans control PTSD. Another wearable gives real-time visual feedback from prosthetic limbs to help lower-limb amputees learn to walk. In all, 13...
by Alfred Poor | May 31, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
The BeeGee’s must have been peering into the future when they came up with their disco hit, “Staying Alive”: “Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk….” Walking is no longer just about getting from one place to another; it is...
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by Bruce Brown | May 9, 2017 | General News, Health
Parkinson’s Disease is the second most common neurodegenerative diseases, ceding first place only to Alzheimer’s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC says the prevalence of Parkinson’s increases from 1% of the...
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by Bruce Brown | May 1, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Researchers continuously hunt for longevity indicators. Traditional longevity metrics include blood pressure, blood sugar, heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV), body temperature, and resting pulse. An aggregate study of studies, Gait Speed and Survival in Older...
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by Bruce Brown | March 2, 2017 | General News, Medical
As wearable biometric sensors and applications evolve, the focus increasingly shines on “clinical grade” or “medical grade” data. As we’ve written before, two factors drive the demand for greater accuracy, validity, and reliability:...
