Tag Archives: health

Maintaining our physical health as we age is a goal we all have for various reasons. Perhaps you want to look as good as possible for as long as possible, perhaps you’re managing a chronic illness or perhaps you simply want to feel young and energised well into your senior years. Whatever your reason might be, looking after your health ...

Bones support our body which is why it is important to take care of our bone health. They help us to stand and move around. Our skeleton cannot stand on its own without the support of bones. Nutrition plays an important part in the overall health of our bodies. Whether we want to increase our brain or heart activity, nutritional ...

This Swallowing Detector, also known as Automated Ingestion Detection (AID), helps you keep track of all of the disgusting crap you shove down your throat hole on a daily basis, with the hopes that you'll shove less disgusting crap down it if you can actually monitor what you're doing to yourself.

Trying to watch what you eat? There’s help around the corner. If you have so far been relying on self-tracking devices like Fitbit to give you a count of the calories you burn, it may just about be the right time to think about taking the next step – measuring the calories on your plate before you consume them. Sure, there are apps that let you enter calorie estimates and manual diet charts you can consult to keep track of your calorie consumption. But let’s face it, they aren’t nearly as accurate as you would like them to be. GE researchers believe they might have a great solution: a device capable of directly measuring the calories in your food.

Google has made headlines again, only this time it's with their health related "gadget," the smart contact lens. The lens is designed to aide diabetics in monitoring glucose levels.

The third week of December, 2013 saw French surgeons implant the first Carmat artificial heart in to a human being!

Google is continually extending the arms of its business in to various industries, but the new Google company, Calico is doing so in a novel way. Calico is a new Google company focused on the health care industry and is centering its focus on the aging process in general and the process of disease in geriatric communities.

When it comes to technological advances, medical advances are by far our favorite breaking news headlines. Today we're taking a look at color changing ink technology that marks syringes as being used to prevent re-use.

The "Natalie Collection" birth simulator might look like something of a strange contraption but it is believed that this device could save millions of babies every year!

Are you a laptop junkie? Chances are that you are since a good majority of us ditched our desktop years ago, but did you know that your laptop posture could be killing your back and severely impacting your life?