Philips Creates Facial Analysis Algorithms For Better CPAP Mask Choices
Dutch company, Philips, creates software to help standardize CPAP mask selection in order to help patients minimize side effects and create better sleep.
SensoGenic: Finding Food Allergens in the Palm of Your Hand
Food allergies affect over 250 million people in the world-with about 8% of children and 4% of adults suffering. In the United States, anaphylactic shock triggered by a food based allergy occurs every six minutes. This allergy can cause eating at restaurants and others homes to be difficult, and can...
How CPAP Compliance Benefits Users
A CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) device is the most efficient treatment for sleep apnea, a widespread sleep disorder in which breathing is disturbed all through the night. Sleep apnea can reduce your quality of life & contribute to cardiovascular diseases and events like heart attack and...
Migraines: Are they being misdiagnosed?
Migraine is one of the World Health Organization’s 20 most disabling conditions. Approximately 12% of the American population have migraines occur, and it is a number that is consistent amongst most western countries.
Discovery in Immune System Within Stem Cells Could Aid in Development of Therapies
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have discovered that stem cells can develop resistance against viruses. This finding could aid in the development of stem cell therapies.