by Bruce Brown | March 24, 2016 | General News, Medical
It’s widely accepted that the cost of healthcare continues to rise , but have you given thought to why that’s happening? There are many contributing factors, but one perhaps not so apparent outside the medical community is paperwork. Physicians and other...
by Alfred Poor | February 19, 2016 | General News, Health
We first covered the Pip a little over a year ago. The little pointed puck is designed to measure “electrodermal activity” as a measure of the subject’s stress level, and a suite of smartphone apps provide exercises and games to help you relax. In...
by Alfred Poor | February 5, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
One of the great promises of wearable Health Tech devices and the “quantified person” is that we will be able to collect massive amounts of data about individuals and communities that will allow us to extract correlations that will help healthcare...
by Alfred Poor | October 12, 2015 | General News, Health, Medical
When a baby is born prematurely or with certain physical conditions, he or she may be unable to suck and swallow sufficiently to be fed by bottle or breast feeding. Making the transition from a feeding tube to normal oral feeding is typically a matter of trial and...
by Alfred Poor | September 21, 2015 | Fitness, Health
Target is a worldwide corporation with nearly 1,800 stores in the U.S. and 347,000 employees worldwide. And the company is getting Fitbit activity trackers for all of their employees. Yes, Target is getting more than a third of a million trackers and giving them to...