by Alfred Poor | April 9, 2015 | Medical
India is a land of extremes, including people living with great wealth and in extreme poverty. Among the rural populations, many women suffer from diseases and chronic conditions that result from a lack of iodine in their diet. This can result in breast cancer,...
by Alfred Poor | January 16, 2015 | Health, Medical
When couples want to have a child, the woman sometimes has difficulty getting pregnant. One of the common approaches to improving the odds of conceiving is to track the woman’s body temperature, with the idea that this can indicate when ovulation occurs. There...
by Alfred Poor | January 12, 2015 | Health, Medical
Blood pressure, blood oxygen, body temperature, heart rate: these are important physiological measures that are helpful in tracking your health. In most cases, you need multiple devices to take these readings, but Scanadu believes that they can do it all with a simple...
by Alfred Poor | August 19, 2014 | Health
For couples trying to conceive a child, one key metric for a woman’s ovulation cycles is the basal body temperature (BBT). There are many apps available to help track this data, but the data is usually recorded just when the woman wakes up in the morning. The...