Time wears on: Assessing how bone wears using 3D surface texture analysis

Aspirin wears smart

The Truth Wears Off

a few dozen neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and drug-company executives gathered in a hotel conference room in Brussels to hear some startling news. It had to do with a class of drugs known as atypical or second-generation antipsychotics, which came on the market in the early nineties. The drugs, sold under brand names such as Abilify, Seroquel, and Zyprexa, had been tested on schizophrenics in...

The Metabolic Syndrome (Emperor) Wears No Clothes

There are several key features of the metabolic syndrome that virtually all interested individuals and organizations agree upon. First, that certain “metabolic” factors tend to associate with each other more often than chance would dictate. Second, these risk factors taken alone or in any possible combination are associated with an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes. Th...

Who Wears Me? Bioimpedance as a Passive Biometric

Mobile and wearable systems for monitoring health are becoming common. If such an mHealth system knows the identity of its wearer, the system can properly label and store data collected by the system. Existing recognition schemes for such mobile applications and pervasive devices are not particularly usable – they require active engagement with the person (e.g., the input of passwords), or they...

Tooth Wears and Dentoalveolar Compensation of Vertical Height

The present study aims to determine differences in vertical facial dimensions as a result of dental wear. The study consisted of 20 subjects with vertical tooth wear. The mean age of sample was 52.4 years. The control group consisted of 20 dental school students. The mean age of control group was 22 years (subjects with severe malocclusion or tooth wear were not included). All subjects’ cephalo...