dimecres, 26 de novembre del 2014

Seizure-detecting wristwatch moves forward: Embrace




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By Nancy Fliesler


This Thanksgiving week, as Epilepsy Awareness month closes out, we're gratified to see an innovation tested here at Boston Children's—a wearable device for patients with epilepsy—move toward commercial development. Called Embrace, it's like a "smoke alarm" for unwitnessed seizures that could potentially prevent tragic cases of sudden, unexpected death from epilepsy (SUDEP):





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