by Alfred Poor | May 3, 2017 | General News, Medical
Owlstone Medical’s website has an ambitious mission statement right at the top of the home page: “To save 100,000 lives and $1.5B in healthcare costs.” It takes confidence to put hard numbers like that in a mission statement, but the company backs it...
by Alfred Poor | February 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
According to the International Diabetes Federation, 415 million people worldwide have diabetes; that amounts to one of every 11 adults. It is not an overstatement that this disease has reached epidemic proportions, costing as much as $1.45 trillion in healthcare...
by Alfred Poor | January 21, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health
Part of modern living, especially in urban areas, is the decreased air quality. This can impact our daily lives in different ways. Infants and the elderly are more susceptible to the ill effects of air pollution than adults. Those who exert themselves physically...