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The Promise of the Medical Tricorder? Meet the Withings BeamO

The Medical Futurist

That might sound steep, but considering it consolidates four high-quality medical tools into one device, it’s a reasonable investment—especially for families, caregivers, or those managing chronic conditions. No gimmicks, just smart engineering for home health monitoring. Most have struggled to deliver on that promise.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

My great-grandmother in particular had a very profound hearing loss and I don’t know, as a kid, I was obsessed with taking them apart and wanted to do more of the engineering side. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. I don’t like this anymore.” Is that right?

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

People are also using YouTube specifically, but social media as its own search engine. So it’s like we’ve all this evidence for the prevention of x, y and z chronic condition because that’s easier to kind of deal with. They’re this influencer. And so people are getting hooked into it, but on their own.

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