by Bruce Brown | April 12, 2016 | General News, Medical
Don’t you just hate it when you have have a blood sample taken, donate blood, or even have an IV installed and the medical personnel have trouble finding a vein? I know I sure do. I generally give blood and have a few blood tests several times a year. Often...
by Bruce Brown | April 11, 2016 | General News, Medical
According to the American Heart Association, there are about 3 million pacemakers in use in the world with approximately 600,000 more implanted each year. Typical pacemakers are about the size of a large watch face or three stacked poker chips. They have two wire...
by Bruce Brown | April 8, 2016 | General News, Medical
Hang onto your hats for this one, because clinicians and scientists in Australia have come up with a way to “print” in 3D with a pen-like device that uses stem cells in a hydrogel formula. This device was developed jointly by researchers with the ARC...
by Bruce Brown | April 7, 2016 | General News, Health
I clearly cannot speak from personal experience, but I know with absolute clarity from family members and friends that menstrual pain can be excruciating. Not all women and girls have the same experience and it’s not always consistent, but one thing is for...
by Bruce Brown | April 6, 2016 | General News, Health
As we’ve written in numerous articles before, there are wearable and carryable Health Tech gadgets galore that measure one or more health metrics and transmit the data to smartphones. Few Health Tech devices are also a phone case, such as Azoi’s Kito+....