by Bruce Brown | April 5, 2016 | General News, Health
Suddenly, the race appears to be on to help blind and visually impaired people enjoy if not actually see images transmitted via social media. We recently wrote about Twitter’s new 420 character image description field. Now Facebook is in the game with another...
by Bruce Brown | April 4, 2016 | General News, Health
[Photo credit: https://www.i-newmedia.com/media] As we’ve noted in other articles, more than one-quarter of the U.S. population report not getting enough sleep and 10% have insomnia according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We have...
by Bruce Brown | April 1, 2016 | General News, Medical
Doctors typically recommend that most adults in the U.S. are recommended to have their first colonoscopy at age 50, though sometimes earlier. This is a routine but fairly invasive procedure to check for colon cancer. Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in the...
by Bruce Brown | March 31, 2016 | General News, Medical
As recently as December 2015, we noted a divide between patient and physician eagerness to adopt telemedicine, with patients wanting it and docs not so sure. A more recent survey shows hospital administrators and medical personnel are changing direction and for many...
by Bruce Brown | March 30, 2016 | General News, Medical
So here’s a Health Tech wearable that ordinary people can’t buy. TheActivInsights wristband flips what has become the usual course of actions upside down. It is designed to enable healthcare professionals to use wearable Health Tech in a manner that suits...
