by Alfred Poor | December 3, 2014 | Health, Medical
An article in the Register reports that the Australian government has awarded a grant for a bit more than US $250,000 for a three-year study of ways to secure individual health data from fitness bands and other wearable devices. The potential benefits of such...
by Alfred Poor | November 26, 2014 | Health, Medical
When it comes to gathering, the honeybee is perhaps the most tireless and focused animal on the planet. Perhaps that’s why it was chosen as the namesake for a program by researchers at Arizona State University. Project HoneyBee is a program intended to validate...
by Alfred Poor | November 21, 2014 | Medical
One of the exhibitors at this week’s IDTechEx conference was CST of America. One of the company’s specialties is the simulation of bio-electromagnetics. In short, this provides software simulation of the effects of different frequency radio waves on the...
by Alfred Poor | November 12, 2014 | Health, Medical
In a recent interview with on Syracuse.com, Jessica Crawford of the MedTech Association offered some predictions about the future of medical technology and its impact on society. One important driving factor that she cited was the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which she...
by Alfred Poor | October 29, 2014 | Medical
Many college students see their lives as “on hold” until they can graduate and start working on projects that matter. Five undergraduates at UCLA decided that they don’t want to wait, so they created the new Bruin Medical Entrepreneurs group. This is...