Category: Digital Health, Wearable technology and Devices

Kidneys perform an essential function in the body of removing the waste – salts, many metabolites and also many other waste substances. However, in many patients this kidney is damaged and there are only two possibilities for these patients: 1.Kidney transplantation – very difficult to do, very expensive and very difficult to find a donor…

There are many fitness monitors out there from Nike’s fuel band to Fit Bit. They all promise monitoring of activity in some form or another but none are very comprehensive.One company, promises better watches and sensors – Basis. Their sensors are equipped with not just accelerometer sensors but they also capture skin sweat secretion, heart…

It is often difficult for caregivers of Schizophrenia patients to understand and fully appreciate the experience of schizophrenia patients. If you have never experienced the symptoms, then it is difficult to feel what the patient is feeling. I was sent a link to the website that has been doing just that… Dr James Cook at…

Innovations that save lives sometimes take a $1 Billion or more and many researchers while some are simple and effective. The innovation that has already saved many lives is a birth mat. Birthing process is dangerous and is a risky, messy and tedious affair to say the least. Many lives are lost in developing countries…

Nicolelis’s lab has been working on the brain machine interface. The interface will obviously help many paraplegics but could be a boost for many neurological disorders. The lab has produced monkeys that can control objects using just their brains without any motor function. Recently, they created a mouse that though could not see infrared light…

Development of any one field requires corresponding development in other fields. Sometimes the fields are so unrelated that it seems amazing that one field would have influenced the other. But consider the link between diagnostic tests and the observation that the sky is blue. This is not about “blue sky thinking” but rather a direct…

The gold standard for almost all the paper based diagnostic tests is the home pregnancy test called Clear Blue. What is forgotten is that this test was created in 1985 by a company called Unipath and this went on to become the most often used test that became a standard by which most diagnostic tests…

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates significant portion of medically relevant devices and drugs but it is probably not as well known that they also regulate the software that is used to power many of the studies. There are significant guidelines from FDA that are used for manufacturers of software that regulate medical devices. The…