by Bruce Brown | April 22, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Paralyzed people and Parkinson’s disease patients can regain some control of their limbs and symptoms with neural implants. The problem is that with traditional implant hookups, wires from the implant run through the skull and connect with an external computer. Not...
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by Bruce Brown | April 21, 2016 | General News, Medical
We often write about curious, interesting, and impressive new Health Tech, but never have I been astounded as by the results of neural bypass surgery in a joint project by Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Neurological Institute and Battelle. The researchers...
by Bruce Brown | April 20, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Implantable Health Tech devices such as defibrillators and pacemakers can be life savers, but come with their own technical issues. If we’re going to be implanting medical devices to regulate, control, assist, measure, and monitor vital body functions, fast and...
by Bruce Brown | April 19, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The niftiest new Health Tech can’t help you much if you’re in a remote location or stranded with no way to travel. Technology developments in other fields may soon be ready to come to the rescue, however. Google just received a patent for a “Request...
![Photonic e-skin Displays Biometric Readings on Your Body [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/04/Photonic-e-skin-600x277-with-video.jpg?resize=600%2C277)
by Bruce Brown | April 18, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Researchers have made rapid advances in wearable Health Tech to measure biomedical elements such as blood oxygen levels, heart rate, blood glucose, and blood pressure. These developments have increased the demand for ever smaller and more convenient physical devices....
