Sweating it out through exercise may be a New Year's resolution but it could also help to provide new insights into the state of your health, according to new sensing technology being developed at Simon Fraser University.
Jan 11, 2022
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Doctors and researchers at the University of Southampton are trialing a novel implant device they have developed that may be offered to women who have problems conceiving or who have recurrent miscarriages.
Jan 7, 2022
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Cross-country skiers push themselves to their performance limits in competition. Yet most of their training takes place at low intensity. How does that work?
Jan 6, 2022
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Monitoring a person's blood pressure on a regular basis can help health care professionals with early detection of various health problems such as high blood pressure, which has no warning signs or symptoms. However, many ...
Jan 4, 2022
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The cochlear implant (CI) is the most successful neural prosthesis worldwide. Thanks to direct stimulation of the auditory nerve, it enables more than half a million people worldwide to hear, even though those affected were ...
Dec 21, 2021
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Motion detection devices such as those found in your cellphone could be useful in predicting outcomes for patients who have suffered severe brain injury, a team of Johns Hopkins clinicians and engineers has found.
Dec 20, 2021
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From wide-ranging body movements as minute as a pulse to the various movements of joints, muscles and limbs, wearable pressure sensors placed directly on the skin may be used in myriad ways to monitor health. Other types ...
Dec 15, 2021
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It's surprisingly hard to tell when a brain cell is dead. Neurons that appear inactive and fragmented under the microscope can persist in a kind of life-or-death limbo for days, and some suddenly begin signaling again after ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect behavioral signs of anxiety with more than 90 percent accuracy, and suggest that AI could have future applications for addressing mental health and well-being. ...
Nov 30, 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with a large number of institutions in Singapore has developed a gel-based sensor that can be used to detect infections in open wounds. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, ...
