Mouth Guard Detects Disease

Mouth Guard Detects Disease

Saliva can be a key diagnostic fluid; healthcare workers can collect it without an invasive procedure such as a blood draw. Doctors and researchers believe that saliva or spit has information related to a person’s health as well as valuable biological...
Sensoria Socks Help Avoid Running Injuries [video]

Sensoria Socks Help Avoid Running Injuries [video]

Increasing health consciousness and wide variety of fitness trackers and wearables have made people conscious of their health. With data of all sorts being tracker, running for leisure is one of the most common activities today. But this has led to increase in running...
Pill Measures Body Temperature

Pill Measures Body Temperature

Wearable health tech is making in-roads in all areas including monitoring the core temperature of human bodies. e-Celsius Performance is a connected pill that tracks the core temperature of the wearer, and it is now available. The pill is made by the French...
Artery Sensor Reduces Hospital Readmissions

Artery Sensor Reduces Hospital Readmissions

Last year, we covered a device called the CardioMEMS HF System that monitors the pressure of the blood pumped by a patient’s heart. The tiny electro-mechanical device is inserted in a patient’s pulmonary artery, where it transmits data wirelessly. The...
Radar Used to Measure Heartbeats

Radar Used to Measure Heartbeats

When you think of radar, you might well think of the dishes that scan the skies to locate aircraft, sending out radio waves and detecting them when they bounce off a target object. But radar can do more than determine an object’s location; it can also determine...