Day: May 28, 2020

As people are starting to return to work, school and a more normal way of life during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, distancing will remain important for the foreseeable future. Companies, governments, and all kinds of organizations are developing or already implementing, policies and procedures to help prevent new outbreaks of the disease. Lopos, a startup with origins at imec and Ghent University in Belgium, is releasing a wearable device that helps to implement social distancing protocols. The Lopos SafeDistance is a wearable…

More than half of all women experience at least one episode of urinary tract infection (UTI) in their lifetime, with men also facing increasing risks of infection as they age. Current detection of UTIs rely on patients reporting symptoms followed by a lab culture of the urine for known bacterial culprits, which typically takes a few days. However, doctors tend to prescribe antibiotics to suppress any suspect cases of UTI before they get the test results, contributing to the increasing…