by Bruce Brown | June 12, 2017 | General News, Health
U.S statistics for hypertension are daunting. According to a 2015 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, one third of all adults age 20 and above have high blood pressure. The CDC also reported 9.5 deaths per 100,000 population from essential...
by Bruce Brown | June 9, 2017 | General News, Medical
Implanted pacemakers have helped millions of people since Wilson Greatbatch accidentally invented them in the 1950s while building a device to record the sounds of a working heart. At that time heart pacemakers were huge external devices and often shocked...
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by Alfred Poor | June 5, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health
If Batman had special shoes, they probably would look something like this; “Quick, into the Batshoes! There’s no time to waste!” If you can’t be bothered with tying the laces on your sneakers, you can just fire up your smartphone and have the...
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by Bruce Brown | May 29, 2017 | General News, Health
High blood pressure is tragically common in the U.S., where 75 million or 1 of every 3 adults has the condition according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). People with high blood pressure — or hypertension — are at greater risk of...
by Bruce Brown | May 26, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Our collections of AC adapters and charging cables grow as we accumulate mobile Health Tech devices. One way to keep the horde of electrical “wall-warts” and associated tangled cables to a minimum is to use multifunction devices with diverse biometric...
