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by Bruce Brown | October 31, 2016 | General News, Health
How much time should kids spend with digital media? Screens are everywhere: pervasive and attractive. Many parents adopt strict rules limiting or banning screen access with television, video games, tablets, and smartphones. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has...
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by Bruce Brown | October 28, 2016 | General News, Medical
Telemedicine acceptance and growth are just beginning to take hold as consumers learn about the technology and in some cases — such as teenagers seeking help managing diabetes — actually using the systems. Video consultations are certainly more personal...
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by Bruce Brown | October 27, 2016 | General News, Medical
If you’re going to have a heart attack, you might want to plant to have it in Seattle. Earlier this year we wrote about PulsePoint, a service that connects with local 911 emergency call networks to alert CPR-trained citizens nearby when someone has a sudden...
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by Bruce Brown | October 25, 2016 | General News, Health
Do you pull or play with your hair, bite your nails, put your hand on your chin, pick at your skin, or have other meaningless behaviors? You may not even be aware when you’re doing them, but they can be distracting and send the wrong messages to other...
by Alfred Poor | October 20, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of our favorite themes here at Health Tech Insider is how the “quantified self” movement is going to produce mountains of Big Data that can be mined to find useful correlations. This will lead to earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment of...
