Health

The FDA has approved the first smartphone app to control insulin delivery. The app from Tandem Diabetes Care allows the user to wirelessly control the company's t:slim X2 insulin pump. It is the first app of its kind to be cleared by the FDA. Continue Reading →

Amazon’s Alexa is moving into hospitals. On Monday, the company announced that it will now support scaled launches of its devices inside both healthcare systems and senior living facilities. Continue Reading →

Apple is studying ways to make AirPods into a health device, including for enhancing hearing, reading body temperature and monitoring posture, according to a new report. Continue Reading →

NBCUniversal is taking the unprecedented step of making "its current movies from the Universal Pictures stable — including the upcoming event family movie Trolls World Tour — will be made available on-demand at the same time they hit those theaters that remain open during the coronavirus pandemic." Continue Reading →

The thesis of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection is usually expressed as "survival of the fittest." In our world, all evidence points to a slightly different synopsis: "survival of the most adaptable." Continue Reading →

There is plenty of medical literature about the dangers of being too sedentary and what to do about it. When you work alone, it is very easy to just sit at your workspace and not get up. Continue Reading →

Apple says it is okay to use disinfectant wipes on your iPhone. If you have a screen protector on your phone, make sure that the alcohol content in your disinfectant wipes won’t mess it up. Continue Reading →

Chinese officials say 170 people have died from coronavirus. At this writing, more than a thousand people are trapped on a cruise ship off the Italian coast, prevented from leaving because of possible coronavirus cases aboard. Continue Reading →