by Bruce Brown | August 20, 2020 | Medical
Physicians will diagnose more than 100,000 new melanomas among people in the U.S. this year, and about nearly 7,000 people will die from malignant skin cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. We’ve written several times about the role artificial...
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by Bruce Brown | September 27, 2017 | General News, Medical
Medical emergencies start clocks ticking regardless of who is nearby. When seconds matter, waiting for first responders to arrive can have dire consequences. We’ve written about first responders before. We covered first responder wearables such as EMERGE,...
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by Alfred Poor | May 5, 2017 | General News, Medical
When first responders and other emergency personnel arrive at the scene of a medical emergency, they have to make quick decisions about how to treat an injured or ill patient. All too often, they must make these judgments based on relatively limited information...
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by Bruce Brown | February 2, 2016 | General News, Health
Managing epilepsy can be challenging, particularly at night when seizures that lack movement and sound are not detected by usual monitoring devices. Especially when one is a caregiver for a child with epilepsy, the very real concern about Sudden Unepected Death from...
by Alfred Poor | December 31, 2014 | Health
According to the National Institute of Health, four out of five people will encounter back pain at some point in their lives. Most treatments include exercises, often to be done under the supervision of professional physical therapists. A new device aims to make this...
