The Lief smart patch, currently funding on Kickstarter, helps promote calm by teaching the user how to control the body’s natural stress responses. If the Lief detects a stress response, it will trigger a biofeedback training exercise that lets the wearer practice breathing with their heart bringing them back to a calmer state. The breathing exercises can also be triggered...
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The most common problem that I heard from many peoples and even I feel it too, that is the Eye strain from staring at a computer too long. I stare at a computer for entirely too many hours a day and I feel eye strain. Eye strain from staring at a computer is so common in nowadays and it has its own name – the computer vision syndrome. And it is widespread, though estimates...
There are many online stores as well as retail outlets for buying health related products. All of them claim to sell the best products in the industry that gives you 100% satisfaction and promises you the result quite soon. But, people get so confused when they decide to buy any health related product as the credibility is a big concern these days. This is when online...
The Department of Health’s report entitled Digital Strategy, together with the NHS’s own document, Digital First, set out ambitious plans for redesigning government services by going digital. By placing these services on-line, the hope is that they’ll be more convenient, straightforward and cost effective. Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, wants the NHS to be paperless...
Nipro Diagnostics, Inc., today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its TRUE METRIX Self-Monitoring blood glucose system and the TRUE METRIX PRO Professional Monitoring blood glucose system. TRUE METRIX Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose Meter As the diabetes store-brand leader, and largest U.S. manufacturer of diabetes products for the store...
Chosen for nearly one out of every two endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repairs worldwide, the Endurant II AAA stent graft system from Medtronic, Inc. continues to demonstrate long-term durability and consistent outcomes at three years in a real-world setting. Endurant II AAA stent graft system The latest data on the market-leading stent graft were presented...
Medtronic, Inc. announced that a German court today ordered the discontinuation, in its entirety, of a prior court ruling that prohibited Medtronic from commercially marketing or selling the CoreValve System in Germany since August 26, 2013. Medtronic’s CoreValve System “Medtronic is very pleased with this decision as it will ensure that patients in Germany who need...
The University of Minnesota Medical Center – Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, recently became the first U.S. health care facility to install the Symbia Intevo xSPECT system from Siemens Healthcare. The first-ever xSPECT system, the Symbia Intevo fully integrates single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and CT during image reconstruction, combining SPECT’s...
Hospitals are now able to address their interventional cardiology needs with Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.’s newest X-ray system, the Infinix Essential. As healthcare reform challenges hospitals to do more with less, the Infinix Essential is an ideal value system that doesn’t sacrifice performance. With its slim, off-center C-arm design, the system allows steep...
Hitachi Europe Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and MIG Int., today announced a roll-out of mobile Wi-Fi scanners that offer convenient mobile identification for the patient at the point of care. The ‘BIOMIG’ device, based on Hitachi’s finger vein authentication technology, has been introduced at several individual private hospitals, hospital groups and dialysis...