by Alfred Poor | March 5, 2018 | General News, Medical
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is an important advance in the treatment of patients with diabetes. Rather than having to rely on occasional blood sugar measurements throughout the day, patients with a CGM device get a steady stream of information. This allows...
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by Alfred Poor | March 2, 2018 | General News, Medical
When a stroke victim goes through rehab, therapists monitor muscle activity, motion, vital signs, and more in order to track progress. One limiting factor is that the sensors require wires to carry their signals. This can be inconvenient in the clinical setting, but...
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by Kimberly Houston | February 21, 2018 | General News, Medical
Advanced dry age-related macular degeneration (dry-AMD) is a common eye disorder among people over 65, causing blurred or reduced central vision. AMD makes everyday activities more difficult, such as the ability to see faces, drive, read, write, or cook, which can...
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by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2018 | General News, Health
The winter 2017-2018 flu season rages on, with millions of U.S. victims getting very sick with a malady that takes a long time to move on. Seasonal influenza, aka the flu, has a hospitalization rate of 51.4 per 100,000 people, higher than rate recorded at this stage...
by Bruce Brown | February 5, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Imagine you set out to build wearable health tech device to address a major health condition such as diabetes or glaucoma. Wouldn’t it be nice to incorporate the techie bits into an item small, light, discrete, and already worn by more than 125 million people...
