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by Alfred Poor | March 10, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Parkinson’s Disease is a chronic, debilitating disease for which there is currently no cure, yet it affects seven to 10 million people worldwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ranks complications from the disease as the 14th leading cause...
by Bruce Brown | January 27, 2016 | General News, Health
Health Tech is one of the leading areas of Internet of Things development. Most of the research takes place in private research and development labs, universities, or groups made up of both schools and commercial companies. Typically anyone not actively involved in...
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by Alfred Poor | March 10, 2015 | Fitness, Health, Medical
In case you missed it, Apple made some announcements yesterday. They talked some more about the Apple Watch, but you still can’t buy one. You can’t even order one until next month. So we’ll wait a bit longer before we discuss what impact it might...
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...
by Alfred Poor | December 12, 2014 | Fitness, Health
The market research firm Futuresource Consulting recently released the results of their recent survey of consumer interest in wearable technology. In October, the company repeated a survey that they had conducted just five months earlier in May 2014. The survey...
