In an effort to significantly raise its profile in the health care field, Fitbit is partnering with Google to improve its ability to share data with medical professionals. The fitness wearable manufacturer will adopt the recently revealed Google Cloud for Healthcare APIs (application programming interfaces), which promises to make sharing fitness and health data safe, easy, and secure. For Fitbit, this […]

Plato said music “gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.” Two and a half millennia later, a study by researchers at the University of Utah is suggesting that music-based treatments may indeed provide significant help in revitalizing patients plagued by mental illness, by lifting their mood […]

A Canadian based startup named Orijin Design Company (ODC), has raised funds on kickstarter for a product called, The Thinking Egg, a useful tool to help remind us to slow down, be more mindful, present and overall more aware in our day-to-day. We’ve all been there, the phone calls, the emails, the text messages, and a bunch of other stuff […]

When Dr. Tarek Loubani travelled to Gaza to work as an ER physician, he found that stethoscopes were in short supply. Sometime later, he noticed that a toy stethoscope worked surprisingly well. This prompted him and a team from Canada’s Western University to design a plastic stethoscope that can be made anywhere, using a 3D printer. Known as the Glia […]

This is the device that uses LED light therapy to help rejuvenate lips and diminish wrinkles around the mouth. One holds the rubber mouth tray between their teeth while the device delivers amber (605nm), red (630nm), deep red (660nm), and infrared (880nm) light waves that penetrate the skin’s surface. The light therapy helps boost circulation and amp up collagen production […]

At the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, researchers have developed a new set of materials designed to deliver drugs inside the body and melt away when illuminated with light. The materials are made of a polymer seeded with nano-sized gold shell nanoparticles. When light from a near-infrared (NIR) laser is applied to the material, it melts and reveals whatever it is […]

Over the past few years, Profusa Inc has been developing tiny biosensors that get injected under the skin, and then provide the user with health information via their smartphone. The technology was recently approved for marketing in Europe, with US approval possibly following soon. Each sensor is smaller than a grain of rice, has a scaffold-like structure, and is made […]

Chances are, you can’t think of many uses for fish scales. Neither can the fisheries industry, which is why it disposes of great quantities of the things every year. According to scientists from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, however, such scales may be able to help heal wounds in humans. The researchers started by obtaining sea bass, snakehead and tilapia scales […]

  Have you ever looked at your dull, lifeless skin and wondered how it got that way and how you could bring it back to its former glory? Cracking the code can be tricky. Eating well, getting plenty of water and using the right skin care products all play a part, but sometimes despite our best efforts, our skin just […]

Things are getting pretty cute in the field of personal health. Case in point is the Pillo, an all-in-one pill dispenser, personal digital assistant, and communication device. It seems to be a mix between an automated pill dispenser, that can prepare the correct dose of multiple drugs on a personalized schedule, an Amazon Alexa-like voice-based assistant, and a screen that […]