by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2017 | General News, Medical
Respiratory depression leading to death under sedation remains one of the greatest dangers of anesthesia, 170 years since William Thomas Green Morton demonstrated the controlled use of ether to produce insensitivity to pain Massachusetts’s General Hospital in...
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by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2017 | General News, Health
Phoenix-based RESA Wearables, Inc. and China’s Shenzhen eSun Industrial Co., Ltd. plan to disrupt the foot care and custom footwear industries. Through a joint venture called Shenzhen Resun Healthcare Technology Co., Ltd., the partners are introducing retail...
by Bruce Brown | August 29, 2017 | General News, Medical
Growing need drives exoskeleton development. Wheelchair-bound patients including paraplegics, people with spinal cord injuries, and stroke victims stand highest on the list of potential beneficiaries of exoskeleton technology. We’ve written about work in...
by Bruce Brown | August 28, 2017 | General News, Medical
Rampant prescription drug abuse threatens health care. Stories about opioid abuse, addiction, and overdoses fill news reports. Misuse of prescription medication isn’t new. Patience compliance with all forms of care, treatment, and medication counts among the...
by Bruce Brown | August 14, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Computers and smartphones equipped with fingerprint readers are commonplace. Facial and voice recognition are old hat. Functional iris scanners on new phones lie just around the corner. Biometric security technology using fingerprints, faces, voice, and iris...
