by Bruce Brown | February 20, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
New fabrication technology opens new prospects for health technology. We’ve covered multiple 3D printing applications including cartilage implants, hybrid printing that combines hard and soft components, assistive devices, finger splints, bionic arms, and many,...
by Bruce Brown | February 19, 2018 | General News, Medical
Patient follow-up systems after surgical discharge have an important positive impact on outcomes, but they can also add a heavy layer of administrative complexity and expense, according to The National Academy of Sciences. While attending Harvard Medical School and...
by Bruce Brown | February 16, 2018 | General News, Medical
Artificial intelligence and big data score once again for health tech. Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and Boston University’s Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics recently published a study in Radiology. The...
by Bruce Brown | February 14, 2018 | General News, Health
The opioid crisis grew out of pharmaceutical solutions for chronic severe pain management, and it won’t recede until medicine, science, and the private sector create effective non-drug pain treatments. History shows any war on drugs focused solely on law...
by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2018 | General News, Health
The winter 2017-2018 flu season rages on, with millions of U.S. victims getting very sick with a malady that takes a long time to move on. Seasonal influenza, aka the flu, has a hospitalization rate of 51.4 per 100,000 people, higher than rate recorded at this stage...