POSTS TAGGED AS wellness

Medicaid for Prisoner Healthcare

The US prison population exceeds two million, and prison healthcare is the most expensive form of care. According to [MORE]

Wellness as the Chief Promoter of mHealth

Nearly half of American adults now own smartphones and about a third of those who do believe that mobile [MORE]

Free Pedometer App for Smart Phone

"Moves" App for Activity Tracking
At present, smart phone culture is well ahead of smart phone medicine, but bridges between [MORE]

Watson on Antioxidants

Dr. James D. Watson
Nutritionists have made a strong case for fruits and vegetables, which are high in antioxidants, as [MORE]

A Happiness Gene for Women; Men, Not So Much

Happiness probably has an epigenetic basis, but researchers at the University of South Florida have found that a single [MORE]

A Stressometer on Your Wrist

Neumitra Stress Monitor
Psychiatrists know that unrelenting stress can have serious consequences, from depression and panic attacks to violence [MORE]

Housing and Health

Insurer Aetna estimates the average cost of a hospital ER visit for asthma to be around $6,000.  With that [MORE]

Filling the Extracellular Matrix for Younger Skin

Dermatologists at the University of Michigan have shown that injections of fibroblasts into the skin stimulate collagen production which [MORE]

Here’s Your Chance!

Leap Motion
Leap Motion is a San Francisco start up that has a fascinating new product in search of applications. [MORE]

Pulse Oximeter for iPhone

iPhone Oxygen Monitor
Masimo Corporation (Irvine, CA) makes the most widely used pulse oximeters in healthcare, and recently it introduced [MORE]

Wilm’s Tumor Vaccine Effective for CML

Wilm’s tumor of the kidney most often presents in children, while chronic myelogenous leukemia of the bone marrow usual is [MORE]

Lincoln Ataxia

British geneticists have identified a new genetic disease, or, more properly, a new genomic spectrum disorder: neuronal spectrinopathy.  It [MORE]

Eldercare Robots

Companion Able Hector
In the 1950’s, engineer/inventor/entrepreneur Joseph Engelberger built the first industrial robot in the US and [MORE]

Really Sensible Shoes

Veristride
A University of Utah mechanical engineering professor has developed a shoe insole, equipped with an accelerometer and gyroscopes that [MORE]