by Bruce Brown | September 20, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Health and medical technology developments comprise the majority of our coverage on Health Tech Insider, especially for wearable and mobile devices. We also write about wearable tech that protects, alerts, or enhances in the workplace and everyday life. For example,...
by Bruce Brown | December 29, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Brain plasticity — the ability to change based on experience and time — holds promise for wide-ranging advances in health and medical technology. In the field of robotics, intentional brain rewiring enables breaching the brain-machine interface. In short,...
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by Bruce Brown | December 21, 2017 | General News, Health
Yesterday I traveled halfway across the country for the holidays. During the trip, I noticed widespread behavior among many others (and myself) that is bound to have long-term health consequences. At three airports I saw adults and children all looking down at their...
by Bruce Brown | November 22, 2017 | General News, Health
Alzheimer’s disease, a form of dementia, is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. and the fifth leading cause of death among people 65 years of age and older. Approximately 5.4 million Americans have this irreversible, incurable, progressive disease,...
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by Jim Ware | November 8, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
One of the $125,000 winners in the 2017 Pitt Innovation Challenge uses good vibrations from a wearable device to help veterans control PTSD. Another wearable gives real-time visual feedback from prosthetic limbs to help lower-limb amputees learn to walk. In all, 13...
