by Bruce Brown | December 29, 2015 | General News, Health, Medical
As many as 50 million people in the United States suffer from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). With both conditions, airways swell and obstruct breathing. Patients typically carry inhalers that they use when their airways start to close. These...
by Alfred Poor | December 24, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
Since we launched Health Tech Insider more than a year and a half ago, we have published more than 700 stories about wearable devices for health and medical applications, as well as coverage of new enabling technologies. As we near the end of the year, it is...
by Alfred Poor | December 22, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
According to Strategy Analytics, about 690 million households have broadband Internet service worldwide. Of these, nearly two thirds — more than 450 million — have WiFi wireless networking. One company hopes to capitalize on this market penetration by...
by Alfred Poor | December 17, 2015 | General News, Health, Medical
In many ways, humans are electrical beings. From nerve impulses to changes in the conductivity of our skin and other body parts, electrical charges play a major role in many of our essential functions. Empatica is a company in Cambridge, MA, that is trying to harness...
by Alfred Poor | December 16, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
One of the hot topics these days is “aging in place;” as a major portion of the U.S. population (and in other countries as well) gets older, it becomes a challenge for many of these seniors to continue to live safely and independently in their own homes....
