by Alfred Poor | February 19, 2015 | Medical
Have you ever heard of a “cluster headache”? I hadn’t. It turns out this condition — sometimes known as “suicide headache” — has been characterized as “one of the most severe pains known to humans.” More than 1 in...
by Alfred Poor | February 17, 2015 | Medical
The non-profit healthcare Scripps Health will lead a consortium of four companies to develop a turnkey system to wirelessly monitor possible Ebola patients, providing full-time acquisition and analysis of vital biometric measures. Sotera Wireless develops wireless...
![Wireless Platform for Health Tech Data [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/02/Network-earth-video.jpg?resize=599%2C387)
by Alfred Poor | February 13, 2015 | Health, Medical
As we have mentioned here repeatedly, one of the big challenges in wearable Health Tech is to get the data from all these different sources uploaded and processed in a form that makes it easier for healthcare professionals and consumers to manage the information, and...
by Alfred Poor | February 11, 2015 | Health, Medical
The potential benefits of the “quantified person” are huge, making it possible to improve diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of all sorts of diseases and chronic conditions. One of the biggest barriers to realizing these gains, however, are the...
![Acid-Powered Rockets Explore the Stomach [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/02/Stomach-Micromotors.jpg?resize=599%2C297)
by Alfred Poor | February 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Medical
The photo may look like a pair of cooling towers for a nuclear power plant, but they’re not. What you see is a scanning microscope image of two tiny devices, each about one fifth the width of a human hair. Each one is actually a micromotor, and the video shows...
