by Bruce Brown | October 25, 2017 | General News, Medical
We’ve written extensively about telemedicine. We’ve covered applications as diverse as using drones to deliver telemedicine capabilities to disaster locations and telemedicine for ships’ crew at sea. We covered a report on telemedicine’s...
by Alfred Poor | August 24, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Modern medicine can provide effective treatment for a huge number of diseases and conditions. The problem is that these treatments cannot be applied until the problem has been successfully diagnosed. And in many cases, diagnosis relies on the analysis of blood, urine,...
by Bruce Brown | November 16, 2016 | General News, Medical
During the past 20 years, HIV treatment has improved to the point that many HIV-positive patients have normal life expectancies. Monitoring remains a major element in treatment, however, as the virus can develop resistance to treatment medication. Current HIV virus...
by Bruce Brown | August 5, 2016 | General News, Health
HIV remains at epidemic levels in Africa. The highest levels in the world persist in sub-Saharan Africa where the combination of tuberculosis and AIDs causes the greatest number of deaths. Cultural factors including men’s resistance to condoms and widespread...
by Bruce Brown | March 14, 2016 | General News, Health
Infant mortality is not a pleasant topic to consider. According to the World Health Organization, 4.5 million children died during their first year of life in 2015. JustMilk, an international organization working to create and introduce an efficient low technology...