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by Bruce Brown | March 29, 2017 | General News, Medical
What is it like to grow old? For most of us, the only way to find out is to get old. Many of us are already there; in 2014 about one person in seven was 65 or older, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Community Services Administration for Community Living...
by Alfred Poor | February 17, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
A combination of new technologies offer the potential for unprecedented change in healthcare. We have low cost sensors that can be incorporated into miniature devices to measure all sorts of vital body functions. We have low-power wireless technology that let these...
by Alfred Poor | December 29, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical, Uncategorized
Another year, another 400 to 500 new posts here on Health Tech Insider. In this first of two parts looking back on 2016, I want to highlight some of the stories that you, the readers, found to be most interesting. To come up with these, I used a very simple —...
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by Alfred Poor | December 9, 2016 | General News, Health
It’s not uncommon to see children wearing earphones, from toddlers to teens. Sadly, it’s also not uncommon for these young people to suffer from hearing loss. According to Puro Sound Labs, one out of every five teenagers have some hearing loss. A major...
by Alfred Poor | October 18, 2016 | General News, Medical
The retina is a lining of nerve cells at the back of your eyeball that converts light into impulses that are transmitted to the brain via the optic nerve. If this fragile lining is damaged, your vision can be limited or lost completely. Many diseases and conditions...
