by Bruce Brown | January 5, 2018 | General News, Medical
While developers push forward with new health tech, other research teams on the hunt for solutions for specific medical conditions or health problems sometimes find new uses for existing technology. That’s what happened at MyoKardia, a South San Francisco-based...
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by Bruce Brown | January 4, 2018 | General News, Health
New Year’s resolutions are hard to keep, as most of us know through experience. It’s difficult to stick with healthy new habits and, for most people, even tougher to break bad habits. Taking the conversation to the extreme, kicking an addiction to opioids...
by Bruce Brown | January 3, 2018 | General News, Health
Wearable pharmaceutical research and development usually focus on appropriate drug release. Drug delivery devices can help with patient compliance, dosage timing, and automatic dosing in response to biometric sensing. We’ve written about magnetically-controlled...
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by Bruce Brown | January 2, 2018 | General News, Medical
The worldwide diabetes epidemic shows no signs of slowing. Treating diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), a related medical issue for approximately 6% of older adults with diabetes, costs billions of dollars each year. DFU’s lead to amputation in one in 12 cases. Two...
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by Bruce Brown | January 1, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Soft robotics enable smoother movement and greater dexterity than hard material robotics, traditionally at the cost of strength. Similarly, when we were kids, many of us learned the different characteristics of erector sets and cat’s cradle. We’ve written...
