Health & Fitness – Page 23

Analysis, Fashion, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Fabrics may soon be able to yield more health data than devices

November 21, 2014

Data from smart apparel will begin carving a health roadmap for the wearer.

What if your outfit made more than a fashion statement? Thanks to miniaturization and state-of-the-art integration of electronics, smart clothing is a burgeoning new space in which sensors are now fixed, woven, and embedded into everyday wear. Hap Klopp, founder of North Face, says, “Fabrics will generate more data than devices in the next 10 years.” Many analysts estimate large-scale adoption by 2020.

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Analysis, Great Videos, Health & Fitness, New Inventions, People Making a Difference, Robots, Science & Technology News

Micro-scallop robots can swim through your blood, eyeballs

November 21, 2014

A micro-scallop robot is only a fraction of a millimeter in size.

Simplicity is important when designing robots on the micro or nano scale (like, small enough to fit inside your body). There just isn’t room for complex motors or actuation systems. There’s barely room for any electronics whatsoever, not to mention batteries, which is why robots that can swim inside your bloodstream or zip around your eyeballs are often driven by magnetic fields.(Video)

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Analysis, Food, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

What’s wrong with our modern diet in 11 charts

November 19, 2014

When people consume modern processed foods high in sugar, refined flour, and vegetable oils, they get sick.

The main reason why people all over the world are fatter and sicker than ever before is our modern diet. Everywhere modern processed foods go, chronic diseases like obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease soon follow.

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Analysis, Food, Health & Fitness, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Link found between milk consumption and death: Study

November 18, 2014

The most likely culprit: lactose.

The British Medical Journal published a large study that tracked the dietary habits of over 100,000 people in Sweden. The study followed the participants for 20 years taking into account differences in lifestyle and demographics. The researchers at Uppsala University found that women who drank three or more glasses of milk per day were twice as likely to die earlier than those who drank less than one glass of milk per day; men had a slightly higher risk of dying early as well. The study also found that the more milk the women in the study drank, the more likely they were to experience bone fractures, especially hip fractures.

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Analysis, Business, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News, Sealife

We harvest the blood of half a million horseshoe crabs a year for medical science

November 14, 2014

Harvesting the blood of horseshoe crabs.

The marvelous thing about horseshoe crab blood besides the baby blue color, is a chemical found only in the amoebocytes of its blood cells that can detect mere traces of bacterial presence and trap them in inescapable clots.

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3D Printer, Analysis, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

3D printed dental crowns while you wait

November 17, 2014

The digital design of the crown is transmitted to a CNC (computer numerical control) milling machine.

By Saul Kaplan: As a tech junkie and geek wannabe I’ve been paying attention to 3D printing and the exploding maker movement. When I say paying attention, I mean reading about it, watching hackers and hobbyists make stuff, and wondering if there is more to the technology than the brightly colored plastic tchotchkes cluttering my desk. 3D printing really hasn’t affected me yet. That is until I recently chipped a tooth and had no choice but to visit my family dentist. It was the dentist’s chair that more than any article or demo converted me to the potential of 3D printing. Sometimes disruption has to hit you right in the mouth before you pay attention.

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Medical Breakthrough, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Surgeons transplant ‘dead’ hearts into patients for the first time ever

November 13, 2014

A specialized fluid and pump has been developed that provide the heart with oxygen, reducing damage and preserving the tissue.

Two Australian patients have had hearts successfully transplanted that had been dead for over 20 minutes thanks to a new method of preservation. The ability to save hearts that have stopped beating will drastically widen the amount of organs available, possibly suiting the needs of 30% of those on the transplant wait list. The research was a joint effort between Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and Sydney’s St. Vincent’s Hospital, with Professor Bob Graham leading the team.

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Analysis, Great New Product, Health & Fitness, Medical Breakthrough, Science & Technology News

Researchers develop artificial spleen that cleans up blood infections

November 12, 2014

The ‘biospleen’ uses protein-equipped nanobeads and a magnet to cleanse blood of pathogens.

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a high-tech method to rid the body of infections — even those caused by unknown pathogens. A device inspired by the spleen can quickly clean blood of everything from Escherichia coli to Ebola, researchers report on 14 September in Nature Medicine.

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Business, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Health tech’s promise to patients – pay doctors for results, not treatment

November 7, 2014

Thanks to technological advancements in health care, the industry has made remarkable progress in the understanding, detection and treatment of disease, in recent decades. Given that the majority of Americans are healthy most of the time, one might expect that medical progress would dramatically reduce the cost of health care due to preventative education, early detection and more effective treatments.

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Sweat sensors may bring medical diagnostics to wearables

November 5, 2014

Sweat contains a trove of medical information.

Sweat leaves unsightly blotches on our clothes, drips down our faces, and makes us stink. It cools us when we overheat, but most of the time we think of it purely as an inconvenience. But, soon we may learn to like our sweat a lot more, or at least what it can reveal about our health.

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Analysis, Brain, Education, Health & Fitness

Top 7 neuromyths that many teachers believe

October 31, 2014

About half of the educators surveyed believed that people only use 10% of their brains.

Surveys of teachers in the UK, Turkey, Holland, Greece and China have revealed that many believe seven common myths about the brain, likely because the simple explanations are often attractive, even if totally wrong. The results of the surveys were reported in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

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