The statistics for Lyme Disease are as frightening and getting worse. Around 300,000 people in the United States are diagnosed…
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Toronto-based clinical image and knowledge-sharing healthcare app Figure 1, described as an ‘Instagram for doctors,’ has raised $10 million in funding…
Cancel that appointment at the tanning salon. Forget about keeping your mouth shut in the spray tan booth. Thanks to…
Step aside, odor-based diagnostics. There’s a new medical breakthrough ready to take center stage, with the potential to treat or…
We’re quickly seeing medical startups emerge that are bringing modern technological methods to the hospital to assist doctors. It makes…
If you think employee drug tests are invasive, you definitely don’t want to work at Epicenter. This Swedish co-working space/startup…
People have been trying to master cross-species organ transplants for literally thousands of years. Attempts date back as far as…
If it looks like a spinach leaf and tastes like a spinach leaf, then how can it be used to…
When Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect at 19 years of age, he probably didn’t comprehend its far-reaching applications. He was…
We’ve seen the push for health care to have more modern technological innovations. Companies like PeraHealth, SIRUM, and AdhereTech all…
The fear of needles and injections is called trypanophobia (and not “being a big fucking baby,” like I was told).…
It came out recently that the American government’s only source of marijuana for clinical research has moldy samples. The people…
The Internet was supposed to be the great equalizer in oh so many ways. Everyone can make their voice heard,…
When one thinks of a routine body scan ultimately two images come to mind; the first is of the large…
If you asked any sane person how they’d like to die, they’re not likely to say “in a hospital with plenty…
For a great many of us, the idea of being completely trapped in one’s body is an alien thought, difficult…
There’s a massive push to improve the overall quality of medical implants regardless if the new implant is organic or…
Adhering to a medication schedule is tough for many people. Products such as pill reminder boxes have been created to…
Hey, remember last week when we published that article about how Snapchat is all growns up now? Well guess what:…
There are still millions of people who struggle with Tupperware lids and Listerine caps, but Sergio Canavero, an Italian neurosurgeon,…
When you think of heart monitoring, often images of classic stethoscopes, finger-clip-booths-at-the-mall, or expensive and bulky medical equipment come to mind.…
There seems to be more innovation in assistive technology than ever before. There’s also more money in it as a…
The Allergy Amulet just closed a seed round to help people stay healthy wherever they eat. The fashion tech device is initially focused on peanuts, but will eventually help people with a food allergy detect all kinds of contaminants. The question is whether it’s more function or fashion.
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
New drones from a company called Zipline will fly medical supplies to remote parts of developing countries. They use GPS technology to find their targets after being summoned by text message. It seems “the future of healthcare is out for delivery.”
The more than $1 billion dollar brain training games industry has suffered a few concussions lately. To be fair, the…
They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but they can also be a cancer researcher’s best friend – and contrary…
Kiah Williams has gotten used to the limelight in the past year – or at least she should have, given…