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10 reasons to start self-tracking your blood pressure
10 reasons to start self-tracking your blood pressure
Do you consider blood pressure monitors to be “a doctor’s thing”? Think again. Do you believe they are to be used once a cardiovascular disease has been diagnosed? Challenge your... Read more...
The History of Blood Pressure Monitoring
The History of Blood Pressure Monitoring
Ready for time travel? Let’s go back to the origins of modern medicine and slowly make our way back to the twenty-first century, stopping only to highlight the 15 most... Read more...
Weighing Babies: Everything You Need to Know
Weighing Babies: Everything You Need to Know
Even if it’s easy to answer the question “Should I weigh my baby?”, it’s tricky to answer the followup: “Why and how often?” Here’s what you need to know. New... Read more...
RFID technology in healthcare
We have discussed many innovations and new technologies that enable mobile healthcare on the blog. Today, let’s take a look at one of the most promising and most controversial of them: RFID. RFID means Radio Frequency Identification. It uses radio to transfer data between a chip or tag that contains information and a dedicated reader. In effect, this allows even very small objects to record, store and transmit data at various ranges. Depending on their function, RFID tags may not even need a power source to work: they can lie... Read more...