Smartphone comes to help healthcare again !

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

Purdue technology could reduce falls http://www.jconline.com/story/news/college/2014/06/22/purdue-technology-reduce-falls/11244833/ From the article: To help with this, researchers adapted a conventional smartphone with a downward-looking wide-angle lens and a special app that allows the phone to record and calculate gait measurements. The system captures gait length — the distance from the tip of the front foot to the tip […]

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Federal “Nannism” continuing to expand ?

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

How low can you go ? FDA set to pepper food firms to reduce salt http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/17/fda-reducing-salt/10686357/ From the article: WASHINGTON (AP) — Food companies and restaurants could soon face government pressure to make their foods less salty — a long-awaited federal effort to try to prevent thousands of deaths each year from heart disease and […]

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