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by Bruce Brown | February 21, 2023 | Health, Medical
Prompt response with a defibrillator means the difference between life and death when a person goes into out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The crucial response time for the best chance of restoring the person’s heartbeat is measured in minutes, Many offices, large...
by Bruce Brown | December 19, 2018 | Medical
Heart disease and stroke rank among the top five causes of death in the United States, according to the latest figures from the CDC. Heart disease is in the unenviable first position on the list and stroke is number five. We have written about a variety of wearable...
by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2018 | General News, Medical
The promise of Big Data is that if you can aggregate enough information, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can sift through it and find correlations that a human mind might never find in a lifetime of searching. We’ve covered how Google’s AI labs...
by Bruce Brown | November 21, 2017 | General News, Medical
On paper, U.S. adult hypertension prevalence recently increased significantly due to new measures from the American Heart Association. Previously, CDC studies indicated approximately one in three U.S. adults suffers from hypertension. Now, however, following the...
by Bruce Brown | October 26, 2017 | General News, Medical
Patient survival rate increases with faster treatment following a myocardial infarction, more commonly known as a heart attack. We wrote previously about CathMaps+, a mobile app that can give directions to the closest hospital with a cardiac catheter lab and stores...
