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Ear-O-Smart earrings tracks pulse and fitness activities
EAR-O-Smart wearables look and feel just like earrings but they’re packed with sensors capable of taking your pulse and monitoring your exercise for fitness tracking. Founders admit on the company’s crowd-funding page that their gadget’s sensors are conventional to the […]
BitBite tracks your eating habits, down to how you chew
A TINY wearable called BitBite tracks and critiques your eating habits with the aim of getting you to improve on what you eat and how you do it. Worn in the ear during meals and snacks, its microphone and sensors […]
Hand transplant recovery sheds new light on touch
Recovery of feeling can gradually improve for years after a hand transplant, suggests a small study that points to changes in the brain, not just the new hand, as a reason. Research presented Sunday at a meeting of the Society […]
6 side-effects of green tea you should know about
Green tea originated in China and is well known as the world’s healthiest drink. Unsweetened, brewed green tea contains zero calories making it the world’s most sought after drink. Its health benefits range from weight loss to preventing cancers and […]
Are fruits a good breakfast substitute?
Most of us rely on fruits for ‘healthy breakfast substitutes’ without really checking up on how healthy that is. Do you always end up eating a piece of fruit for breakfast, due to lack of time? Many of us, though […]
China vows harsher punishment for production, sale of fake drugs
BEIJING – China will hand out harsher punishment for the production and sale of fake and substandard drugs as the country combats increasingly severe drug scandals, judicial authorities said on Tuesday. The decision came after the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) […]
Eating too much of a good thing is also bad
Just because nuts and fresh fruits are good for you doesn’t mean you eat a bowlful. Dieticians discuss the science of portion It’s greed of another kind. But city dieticians are concerned that health conscious Mumbaikars are taking it too […]
New vaccine to fight four strains of the flu
KUALA LUMPUR – Now, there is a vaccine that will give protection against four strains of the flu. Sanofi Pasteur has launched the vaccine here also offers protection against the Influenza B strain. Influenza B is the major cause of […]
Team devises ingenious method to attack cancer at its genetic source
MicroRNAs may be tiny—as few as 20 genetic letters, compared to 3 billion in the DNA of a human—but they play a major role in biology, helping to determine which genes are expressed or silenced. In the last 10 years, […]
NEC technology alleviates stress of taking blood pressure
TOKYO — NEC Corp has developed a first-of-its-kind blood pressure measurement technology that enables high-precision blood pressure measurements with a low application of pressure (stress). This new technology provides high-precision blood pressure measurements that can be applied for medical use […]
