Is the cellphone the most promising new weapon in the fight against HIV/AIDs? A group of designers, tech companies, health care providers and AIDs activists are betting that mobile phones can help crack this intractable problem: delivering health care information to one of the world's most severely affected regions.READ»
How you hearHearing happens when sound waves reach the structures inside your ear, where the vibrations of the sound waves re converted into nerve signals that your brain recognizes as sound. Your ear is made up of three major ...READ»
Businessman Howard Weinstein shed his former life, moved to Botswana, and developed a solar-powered analogue hearing aid that costs under $100--and won a Tech Award.READ»
Naturally healthy silk bedding. Simply put, silk bedding is healthier for us than down, feather or synthetic bedding.There are so many products on the market today that claim to be healthy and good for us - it’s not always easy to ...READ»
SmartHand is a European collaborative project to develop a next-generation robotic prosthetic limb, and as part of the project Swedish researchers have successfully demonstrated a neat psychological trick that makes wearers feel like ...READ»
Finding a professional and economical Audiologist in Miami Florida is hard to find. A skilled audiologist can be a very usefully ally as you work to combat hearing loss. Having the wrong audiologist, on the other hand, can create many ...READ»
Hearing loss affects many all over the world, especially in the United States. Although we have no concrete number of how many people worldwide are affected by hearing loss we can approximate 30 million people as being diagnosed ...READ»
You'd be surprised that many people don't know Illinois Medicare supplements are the same, no matter from which health insurance company you buy them. The only difference is how much you pay for them.READ»
Lawmakers returned to Washington this week after a heated August recess to continue to negotiate health care reform. Americans remain sharply divided on legislation: In a Gallup Poll released Tuesday, 39% of those polled say they would direct their member of Congress to vote against a health care reform bill this fall, while 37% want their member to vote in favor of a health care reform bill.READ»
Starting a new company may be a daunting task for some, but not for the brother and sister team of Dr. Joseph K. Duran and Yvette Duran Someillan. They combined their vast knowledge and experience in the field of Audiology and hearing ...READ»
Workplace fashion update! This week Friday, October 8, is National Denim Day, a business-related opportunity to support the fight against breast cancer. For the last eight years, corporate employees across the country have been ...READ»
Well Care and Coventry, two of the largest companies in the Medicare health insurance business will no longer be offering Medicare Advantage in 2010.READ»
Recognized as an unprecedented marriage of design and technological innovation, Stuart Karten's Z!n hearing aid walked away with this year's Cooper-Hewitt People's Design Award.READ»
As an informal part of my research for the book I’m presently working on, Your $100,000 Career Plan: Match Your Personality to a Six-Figure Job, I have chatted with physicians who are personal friends and have asked about their ...READ»
Chinese vaccine manufacturer, Sinovac has the first government-approved H1N1 vaccine in its possession, and now stands to make a killing in exports. Mexico has already ordered 10 million doses, according to a recent report in China ...READ»
This is the first installment of the state of healthcare in the United States, which is a great time because with the primaries heating up, it's great to look at what our candidates are using as rhetoric for solving the health care ...READ»