The future of health: smartphone apps

The future of health: smartphone apps

As wearable tech becomes commonplace, the tech industry scrambles to put out more technology for the health-conscious. Here are three new smartphone apps, two with external hardware, that you should be aware of. First up is a fork that slows down your eating....
New Cholesterol Guidelines Take Aim at Heart Attacks and Strokes

New Cholesterol Guidelines Take Aim at Heart Attacks and Strokes

For the first time in a decade, America has new guidelines for preventing heart attacks and strokes, including a recommendation that twice as many adults be steered towards cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. A combination effort by the American Heart Association and...
New Health Care Law Redefines “Insurance”

New Health Care Law Redefines “Insurance”

As the number of cancelled health care insurance plans mounts (130,000 cancellations in Kentucky, 140,000 in Minnesota, and 400,000 in Georgia for starters), the suddenly uninsured are wondering how President Obama’s oft-repeated re-election campaign promise that “If...
New Space Shuttle Lands Safely – Sort Of

New Space Shuttle Lands Safely – Sort Of

A new day is dawning at NASA, one in which private companies like the Sierra Nevada Corp. vie for the right to carry to be chosen to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station and back in the next four or five years. The Dream Chaser space plane was...
Health Insurance Carriers Canceling Plans

Health Insurance Carriers Canceling Plans

As waves of cancellation notices settle into mailboxes around the nation, President Obama comes face-to-face with the words he spoke many times over on the campaign trail: “If you like your health plan, you can keep it.” That’s not exactly the case, as millions of the...