Sleep disorders

Smart thermostats provide sleep insights at home

A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2024 annual meeting, held in Houston, Texas, June 1–5, offers a framework for an objective, non-invasive and zero-effort sleep monitoring system utilizing smart thermostats equipped ...

Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Padded helmet cover shows little protection for football players

As a former football player at Aptos High School in California and Princeton University, David Camarillo, Ph.D., an associate professor of bioengineering, experienced migraines from the head-banging the sport is known for.

Health informatics

Can smartphones predict mortality risk?

Passive smartphone monitoring of people's walking activity can be used to construct population-level models of health and mortality risk, according to a new study publishing October 20 in the open access journal PLOS Digital ...

Health

A device to prevent falls in the elderly

The EPFL spin-off Gait Up just put an extremely thin motion sensor on the market. It can detect the risk of a fall in an older person and is equally useful for sports and physical therapy.

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