The use of smartphones, tablets and laptops has become commonplace throughout the world and has been especially prevalent among college students. Recent studies have found that college students have higher levels of screen ...
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Over 30 million people in the United States have diabetes—approximately 10.5 percent of the country's population—with 1.5 million new diagnoses made each year and an estimated annual cost exceeding $300 billion.
Dec 15, 2021
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Electronics in the "cold chain" that health systems use to keep items like COVID-19 vaccines ultra-cold during storage and transport are surprisingly vulnerable to hacking, but there are ways that health systems can protect ...
Oct 20, 2021
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Exoskeletons—wearable devices used by workers on assembly lines or in warehouses to alleviate stress on their lower backs—may compete with valuable resources in the brain while people work, canceling out the physical ...
Jul 22, 2021
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Spurred by the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at Princeton and Google are applying mechanical engineering and artificial intelligence in an effort to increase the availability and effectiveness of ventilation ...
Jan 27, 2021
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Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place, quarantines, and other steps taken to control the SARS-CoV-2 virus can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative infections, ...
Oct 22, 2020
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A new study looking at data from tens of thousands of children with asthma finds that several widely available interventions are associated with both reduced medical costs and a reduced likelihood that the children will need ...
Oct 13, 2020
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A country's actions, or lack of action, in responding to the pandemic is partly informed by models that predict the virus' impact on various aspects of society. But Olivier de Weck, professor of aeronautics and astronautics ...
Oct 7, 2020
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We do not yet have a vaccine that can be used to help protect people from contracting COVID-19. However, once a vaccine is proven to be both safe and effective, governments, industry and healthcare providers will face the ...
Jul 29, 2020
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As COVID-19 looks more like a disease of the immune system, a Michigan engineer is working with doctors to look at how immune responses differ between mild and severe cases.
May 29, 2020
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