by Bill Malloy | Jul 15, 2021 | Health, Medication, Pharmaceuticals, Scientists, Technology
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked the rapid development of new vaccine technologies in a matter of months. For the first time in history, vaccines using synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) technology were created. However, administrating the vaccine has proven more difficult...
by Bill Malloy | May 19, 2021 | Health, Scientists, Technology
Electronic health records (EHRs) have received a lot of attention in recent years, especially in terms of managing them in the cloud so that the data can be shared between organizations. Another recent push is to make genomic data part of the EHR. Genomic testing has...
by Bill Malloy | Apr 28, 2021 | Data, Health, Medication, Pharmaceuticals, Scientists, Technology
One of the technologies that has received a lot of attention in digital health in the past few years is the smart pill. These pills are small electronic devices that are shaped like a pharmaceutical capsule so that they can be easily swallowed. The pills safely travel...
by Bill Malloy | Mar 24, 2021 | Health, Medication, Scientists, Technology
In 2020, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to microbiologist Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier and biochemist Jennifer Doudna for the development of technology known as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR). The technology has often been referred...
by Bill Malloy | Mar 16, 2021 | Data, Food, Health, Scientists
Many people rely on wearable technologies to help them optimize their health. While these gadgets can certainly help us keep track of important information, they do not replace fundamental approaches to wellbeing, such as diet. In recent years, there has been a push...
by Bill Malloy | Mar 10, 2021 | Data, Food, Health, Scientists
Technology can help us monitor our health, but we also have a great deal of control over our own wellbeing. More research is being done on holistic approaches to treating chronic diseases like cancer. One of the key areas that researchers are trying to learn more...
