by Bruce Brown | September 14, 2020 | Health
Health officials recommend that people wear masks to help reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. However, this prudent practice can make it harder to understand what others are saying. People with normal hearing often attend to facial expressions and lip movement to...
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by Bruce Brown | August 14, 2020 | Health
Pre-pandemic, it would have been hard to imagine that 2020 would see a raft of new products to protect people’s health by keeping them apart. Today, however, social distancing is a new term to describe a key prophylactic measure to prevent — or at least...
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by Bruce Brown | August 3, 2020 | Health
Effective social distancing or controlled proximity is a keystone to a successful return to education and employment as most of us know it. If we can stay far enough away from each other long enough, health experts tell us, we’ll have our best chance to stem the...
by Bruce Brown | May 14, 2020 | Health
We’ve written about several technologies developed for COVID-19 testing or remote patient monitoring. Vancouver, British Columbia-based industrial workforce safety company Proxxi recently announced a new wearable to support two additional elements in...
