Boston Medical Center (BMC) successfully reduced audible alarms as a way to combat alarm fatigue and improve patient safety. The hospital, one of two in the country that spearheaded this issue, implemented a novel cost-effective approach ...
Drinking green tea may lessen the effects of the medication nadolol (Corgard), used to treat high blood pressure, a new small study suggests. Researchers gave 10 volunteers a single dose of 30 milligrams of nadolol after they had consumed ...
Lawrence Schmelz spent a lot of time in the gym keeping his body fit -- up to two hours a day, every day, at age 50. But that changed one morning six years ago when the Rockville, Md., resident woke up with the irregular heartbeat known ...
Tags: atrial fibrillation, heart rhythm, Lawrence Schmelz, exercise
Cutting back on exercise, or stopping altogether, might seem like the right move for people whose heart beats too fast and erratically, a condition called atrial fibrillation. But that's not necessarily so. In fact, staying active -- ...
Tags: atrial fibrillation, heart rate, heart rhythm problems, exercise
To ring in the New Year and and beyond, CalNaturale Svelte®, the premium line of USDA Certified organic protein shakes that provides great taste, sustained nutrition and energy through pure and simple ingredients, is offering simple ...
Tags: CalNaturale Svelte, new health goals, fitness resolution
This is the CES of the wearable gadget. And, while there are all sorts of technologies you can wear-after all, earbuds are wearable-the big explosion is in fitness trackers. The first wave of these small gadgets, worn on a wrist, clipped on ...
Tags: CES 2014 Trends, CES 2014, Fitness Trackers, Smart Watches
French fashion is getting smarter with the help of fabric woven with micro-sensors that can reveal when someone is weary or unwell. France-based Cityzen Sciences was at the Consumer Electronics Show on Friday with shirts made of "Smart ...
Tags: Smart Shirt, Shirt, Apparel
Gadget lovers are slipping on fitness bands that track movement and buckling on smartwatches that let them check phone messages. Some brave souls are even donning Google's geeky-looking Glass eyewear. For the technology industry, this ...
Tags: smartwatches, technology industry, wearable computing devices, eyeglasses
There's a sensor in a bra, in your socks, on your wrist, attached to your chest, in the ears: wearable tech is spreading all over the body. The growing use of embedded wearable devices connected to a smartphone is spawning a massive ...
Despite the hoopla, wearable gadgets like wristwatches for checking your text messages or eyeglasses that capture video are unlikely to make a splash with consumers anytime soon, given the clumsy designs, high prices and technological ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Move over smartphones. The world's consumer electronics companies have begun competing now to be at the vanguard of what all hope will be the next big thing: wearable devices. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicked off here ...
Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) unveiled today a high-precision, low-power meter-on-a-chip for a range of portable health applications such as point-of-care diagnostics, home/self-test health devices, and wearable vital signs monitors, ...
Tags: Analog Devices, portable health applications, ADuCM350 meter-on-a-chip
In this part 1 of a two-part series, a K-State veterinarian provides a look into how environmental factors, including heat stress, coupled with the use of beta-agonists potentially plays a role in cattle fatigue. In agricultural ...
Tags: Beta-Agonists, Cattle Fatigue, Environment, Agriculture
LG has officially kicked off the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas with the opening press conference of the show, presenting a suite of new consumer electronics products including Ultra HD and curved OLED displays, a curved smartphone and ...
Tags: LG, Home Appliances, OLED and Webos Tvs, Smartphones, Fitness Tech
Korean electronics maker LG is jumping into the wearable fitness market. The company is making earbuds that will measure your heart rate from inside your ears. The earbuds connect to a small medallion that syncs to a smartphone via ...
Tags: LG, wearable fitness market, earbuds