04/16/2018, We’ve seen how AI can be used in the health industry, where it will be capable of detecting cancer or even Alzheimer’s. Now it seems that Google is also throwing their hat into the ring by developing a prototype augmented reality microscope that is...

04/05/2018, Given how people can post (almost) anything they want on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, it’s not surprising that many of them are using it as a marketplace of sorts. This has resulted in people using them to sell illegal goods, such...

04/05/2018, Our medical data is something that we probably wouldn’t really want to share with the rest of the world, which is why medical information about patients is guarded rather heavily. However it seems that at one point in time, this information was...

04/04/2018, Our smartphones are amazing devices and with the cameras on them constantly improving, it seems that it has gotten to the point where researchers are able to use them for medical purposes. Thanks to their efforts, it seems that in the future it is...

03/20/2018, Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to great effect where it can help predict and automate a bunch of things. It has also been used in the healthcare industry where it can be used to predict psychosis and also potentially predict death which will...

03/12/2018, A couple of years ago, AliveCor launched the KardiaBand which is a strap for the Apple Watch that helps detect abnormal heart rhythms and can also predict strokes. However it appears that the KardiaBand can be used for more than just that because...

03/04/2018, In emergency situations like on the battlefield, medics might have minutes or even seconds to save the life of a soldier who has been injured. However if DARPA has their way, they might have come up with an idea on how to make that window a bit bigger....

03/04/2018, Exoskeletons have a lot of uses, such as helping workers in factory lift heavy objects without straining their backs. It also has medical uses where it can help those who are paralyzed walk again, and for those in the US who might have need of such...

03/04/2018, When covering events like MWC, we tend to focus high-profile items such as new smartphones, but there are intriguing products presented in the startup areas of the show. Lilicover is a skin care product that uses a sensor and a smartphone app. Recently...

02/27/2018, If there is an upside to working for huge multinational firms is that when it comes to healthcare, most of these huge companies tend to have a pretty good system in place where employees don’t need to worry about access to healthcare services. This is...

02/19/2018, How do you know if you are at risk of heart disease? There are some pretty obvious signs, such as living an unhealthy lifestyle, but sometimes what you see on the surface might not be an accurate representation of what’s going on underneath, which is...

02/19/2018, If you have seen or know someone who is recovering from having suffered a stroke, you know that speech impediments is one of the signs and that this is also something they’ll need to overcome with time. Now thanks to work being done by engineers at...

02/12/2018, The problem with more conventional methods of cancer treatment, such as chemotherapy and radiation, is that it is not a targeted treatment. This means that the patient’s entire body is being blasted with chemicals in a bid to kill of the tumor cells,...

02/08/2018, For those unfamiliar, muscle atrophy is when we do not regularly use or exercise our muscles, leading to them weakening and deterioating. This is especially prevalent in astronauts as maintaining muscle mass while in space has proven to be an issue, where...