It keeps track of walks and periodically tells me my speed, distance and time as I go. At journey's end it creates a map and overall exercise statistics. I use it for walks, but you can track bike trips, runs and hikes as well. ...
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What if clothes could talk? Would they tell people how they’re feeling or when they need to be washed? Maybe they will someday. For now, Arizona-based Performance 3D is working to deliver the world's first talking clothes called 3D ...
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No, not those models that frequent a runway. Instead, two of the big introductions here at this year's New York Auto Show are trumpeting major weight reductions. To be fair, it did require major surgery in both cases. Over the past few ...
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Dan Ai Kesen, CEO of General Motors, announced recently, the company plans to lose 15% weight of the 2016 new model in the North America. In an energy meeting held in Huston not long ago, Ai Kesen said, General Motors’s 2016 new ...
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CMS Medical, a distributor and manufacturer of minimally-invasive medical products in Brazil, has entered into a collaboration agreement with GI Dynamics. Under the deal, CMS will distribute GI Dynamics' EndoBarrier therapy in Brazil, ...
If you take Byetta or Januvia to control your blood sugar levels, you might have a small, but increased risk for a condition marked by stomach pain and nausea. Not only are the drugs more expensive and no more effective than our Best Buy ...
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Mexico Bariatric Center (MBC), a healthcare facilitator which helps patients undergo metabolic and bariatric surgeries, has added Single-Incision Laproscopic Surgery (SILS) to its service offerings. By making a single incision, known as ...
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ReShape Medical has completed patient enrollment in a pivotal clinical trial of its ReShape Duo Intragastric Balloon device, designed for the treatment of obese. Using a standard endoscope, non-surgical weight loss device is placed in the ...
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A night in a Royal Penthouse Suite at Geneva’s Hotel President Wilson costs a staggering $65,000, which makes the $195,100 Range Rover Vogue SDV8 seem like positively good value. Each is as palatial – and large – as the ...
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Clinical-stage medical technology company Baronova has secured $27.3m from Series C financing round. The financing, which is led by investments from Sante Ventures and Boston Scientific, will be used by the company to fund a pivotal study ...
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EnteroMedics has reported ReCharge study results of its VBLOC vagal blocking therapy, designed for the treatment of obesity. The pacemaker-like Maestro system delivers VBLOC therapy via two small electrodes that are laparoscopically ...
UK-based pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca have announced that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK has issued an Appraisal Consultation Document (ACD) for its first-in-class, ...
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The months leading out of 2012 were uncharacteristically wet, with the year eventually finished only 6.6 millimeters of rainfall short of being the wettest year in UK history. Continuing the theme of extreme weather conditions, January ...
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GI Dynamics has a started a US pivotal trial of its non-surgical device, designed to treat patients with obesity and uncontrolled type 2 diabetes. Flexible, tube-shaped EndoBarrier device, which is implanted into the gut, forms a physical ...
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Why are Americans (including myself) so concerned about their weight? I studied this question for six years and in 2008 received a Ph.D. in sociology with a specific focus on body weight perceptions. Though that gave me a comprehensive ...