by Bruce Brown | June 12, 2018 | General News, Health
Many new health tech devices employ new or unconventional sensor technologies to track biometrics. Validating a new measurement device against the current gold standard for the given metric is health tech grail. We’ve written about a range of blood pressure...
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by Bruce Brown | June 7, 2018 | General News, Health
The search is underway for valid, reliable blood pressure measurement technology capable of continuous monitoring with little or no patient effort or encumbrance. The need for significant advances in blood pressure monitoring technology is more apparent than ever...
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by Bruce Brown | June 6, 2018 | General News, Health
It can be difficult to accept some of the claims as fitness and activity trackers morph into multifunction biometric-tracking smartwatches that promise to be all things to all users. While the smartwatches intrigue potential buyers, their doctors may not be interested...
by Bruce Brown | June 4, 2018 | General News, Health
Hypertension, aka high blood pressure, is an increasingly common condition affecting one of two U.S. adults — often without symptoms — according to the American Heart Association (AHA). Hypertension increases the risk for heart disease and stroke, two of...
by Bruce Brown | March 21, 2018 | General News, Health
Americans continue to rack up unfortunately high scores on common health problems. According to the CDC, approximately 75 million adults in the U.S have hypertension (high blood pressure). Another 75 million have prehypertension: blood pressure scores that are above...
