by Bruce Brown | May 23, 2017 | General News, Health
Migraine headaches are a chronic neurological disease. Migraines affect 38 million men, women, and children in the U.S. and about 1 billion people worldwide, or about 12% of the population, according to the Migraine Research Foundation. There is no cure for migraines,...
by Alfred Poor | May 23, 2017 | General News, Medical
Facial palsy is a condition where the facial nerve on one (or both) sides of the face becomes damaged. This nerve controls the muscle groups that we use to make facial expressions, and palsy will cause that side to droop. This condition can be caused by bacterial or...
by Alfred Poor | May 19, 2017 | General News, Health
One of the recurring themes here on Health Tech Insider is that the path for success for wearable devices is to add features and do more. Take sleep sensors as an example. Most of them track your motion while you sleep, and some will also track heart rate. From this...
by Bruce Brown | May 18, 2017 | General News, Health
We’ve written about several “smart shirts” in the past. After we saw them at CES 2017, we covered Xenoma’s eSkin with 14 motion sensors and XYZLife’s shirt with motion and heart rate sensors. We also wrote about HealthWatch’s hWear...
by Bruce Brown | May 17, 2017 | General News, Health
The Ava Fertility Tracker wristband and mobile app combination is adding pregnancy monitoring features to the mobile app. We originally wrote about Ava in July 2016. Ava’s accuracy in detecting the 5.3 most fertile days of a woman’s cycle was...