by Alfred Poor | April 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Grace Kabelenga was born in 2008 in Zambia with what was described as severe craniofacial deformities, but that is an understatement. The bones in the middle of her face were missing, as well as large portions of her skull and the bones that separate her brain from...
by Bruce Brown | January 21, 2016 | General News, Medical
Perhaps you’ve read that dogs can be trained to detect cancer. Various tumors produce specific alkalines and smelly compounds that dogs — with their ability to discriminate odors as discrete as possibly parts per trillion — can detect the cancer from...
by Alfred Poor | July 10, 2015 | Medical
Sleep apnea is a problem for more than 18 million people in the U.S., according to the American Sleep Apnea Association. The most common form of treatment is to use a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine while sleeping. These can be cumbersome and...
by Alfred Poor | December 29, 2014 | Health, Medical
Many analysts have forecast that the future of wearable Health Tech devices will be in health and medical applications. That’s where the money is. But while we all focus on heartbeats and blood pressure and oxygen levels and other sensors strapped or stuck to...