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by Alfred Poor | June 10, 2015 | Medical
What looks like a section of a car tire could actually change the lives of millions of women in developing regions around the world. Access to effective, reversible, long-term contraceptives is often limited, making it more difficult to avoid unwanted pregnancies or...
by Alfred Poor | February 11, 2015 | Health
Here’s something you don’t see every day. The exploding wearable Health Tech market means that lots of companies are coming up with all sorts of new ideas for products and services. It stands to reason that some of these new concepts may not have been...
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by Alfred Poor | January 12, 2015 | Health, Medical
It can be important to track your vital signs for a variety of fitness, health, and medical reasons. Qardio has a set of three consumer products designed to cover most of the bases with medical grade data that you can share with your healthcare professionals. The...
by Alfred Poor | January 5, 2015 | Health
For the record, superlatives in marketing materials instantly trigger my Skept-o-Meter. It’s rare that a company can truly lay claim to being “first” or “best” or “only.” So I almost stopped reading the press release about the...
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by Alfred Poor | December 16, 2014 | Enabling Tech
One of the most amazing forms of wearable technology is the robotic prosthetic limb. This technology promises to restore normal use of hands and legs to those who have lost them due to injury or disease. One of the major challenges, however, is to get signals from...
