by Bruce Brown | September 12, 2018 | General News, Health
After the cool factor wears off with health and wellness wearables, ease of use and unobtrusiveness matter more when people move to the next thing and get on with their lives. In order to convince most people to continue to use wearables and to attract new...
by Bruce Brown | September 10, 2018 | General News, Health
Urine tests can screen for opioid and other controlled substance use, test for HIV, STDs, kidney function, metabolic disorders such as diabetes and hypertension, urinary tract infections, and general health. When we wrote about a home urine test scanner developed by...
by Alfred Poor | September 3, 2018 | General News, Medical
Wearable sensors are transforming healthcare practice in ways that could not be imagined even a few decades ago. They make it possible to monitor patients more closely and around the clock. Alerts can be generated if readings stray outside a target range. Data can be...
by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2018 | General News, Health
A troublesome new study explores a potentially dangerous flaw in health tech user ratings, comments, and reviews. Timothy B. Plante from the Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont was the lead author of a study that found...
by Bruce Brown | August 28, 2018 | General News, Health
The FDA recently cleared the first pregnancy contraception smartphone app for sale in the U.S. We are appreciative of the FDA’s continued forward movement with digital health products and approving mobile apps for medical applications. However, we have mixed...