by Emily Waltz | Apr 30, 2021 | Clinical Technology
How much does it itch? That’s a question doctors often ask people with eczema and other itch-inducing ailments, but the answer is subjective and hard to quantify; like being asked to rate one’s pain using one of those emoji-face pain scales. Today researchers...
by Prachi Patel | Apr 20, 2021 | artificial-intelligence/machine-learning
Photo-illustration: Stuart Bradford Artificial-intelligence systems today increasingly determine whether someone gets a job or a loan, how much they’re paid, how they’re treated by doctors and hospitals, and how fairly they’re dealt with by government, law...
by Yuksel Temiz | Apr 24, 2020 | Heart Rate Variability
Illustration: James Provost I am a member of a team at IBM Research–Europe, in Zurich, developing microfluidic technologies for medical applications. Two years ago, I was asked to provide high-quality photos and videos of our microfluidic chips for a big tech event. I...
by Samuel K. Moore | Apr 16, 2020 | Heart Rate Variability
Robots and stranger machines have been using a particular band of ultraviolet light to sterilize surfaces that might be contaminated with coronavirus. Those that must decontaminate large spaces, such as hospital rooms or aircraft cabins, use large, power-hungry...
by Emily Waltz | Apr 3, 2020 | Heart Rate Variability
Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has finally moved from relying entirely on a single, flawed diagnostic test to having what may soon be an onslaught of testing options available from private entities. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration over...
