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by Alfred Poor | October 19, 2015 | General News, Health, Medical
Bacterial and other microbial infections have become a serious problem, especially in hospitals and other clinical settings with the use of antibiotics and sterilizing chemicals have given rise to strains that are resistant to standard treatments. Scientists have...
by Alfred Poor | April 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech
If you need diagnostic work done these days, you typically have to provide some blood or other sample that gets shipped off to a lab somewhere. Then you wait for the results to come back. Wouldn’t it be great if you could find out the answers right away?...
by Alfred Poor | January 20, 2015 | Health, Medical
About ten years ago, a father in France wanted to take his baby’s temperature, but didn’t want to wake his child. From this experience arose the company Visiomed and the ThermoFlash non-contact thermometer. The company displayed their latest version of the...
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by Alfred Poor | January 12, 2015 | Health, Medical
Blood pressure, blood oxygen, body temperature, heart rate: these are important physiological measures that are helpful in tracking your health. In most cases, you need multiple devices to take these readings, but Scanadu believes that they can do it all with a simple...
by Alfred Poor | October 23, 2014 | Fitness, Health, Medical
An article in IEEE Spectrum describes work by researchers at the University of Cincinnati and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories. They started with the fact that signs of over-exertion and dehydration can be detected in a person’s sweat before the problem...
