by Bruce Brown | November 17, 2022 | Health
Health Tech Insider often covers new developments in hearable technology, starting well before the 2017 OTC Hearing Aid Act legislation. The law directed the FDA to create a category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. The act’s intent is to loosen...
by Bruce Brown | September 8, 2022 | Health
Are you looking for a new way to stay motivated for healthy daily exercise? Use San Diego-based Vizer’s eponymous mobile app and you can convert your daily workouts into meal donations at U.S. food banks. You can also win rewards with the same good habits. The...
by Bruce Brown | July 22, 2021 | Health
New Zealand-based ODocs Eye Care develops tools to assist ophthalmologists. For the past six years, ODocs has worked with 3D printer and 3D scaling software company Ultimaker to develop an open source smartphone ophthalmoscope. The company has moved on to develop...
by Bruce Brown | June 22, 2020 | Health
We’ve written several times about new technologies designed to help dermatologists diagnose skin cancer. In 2017, we wrote about 3Derm System’s 3Derm handheld that primary care physicians use to take photos of marks on a patient’s skin to send to a...
by Bruce Brown | October 5, 2018 | General News, Health
The incidence of high blood pressure among U.S. adults would be astounding if the correlations with poor lifestyle choices weren’t so clear. Obesity, poor nutrition, and inadequate exercise are all too common among adults, and they relate directly with unhealthy...