{"id":119604,"date":"2021-02-15T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/new-skin-patch-promises-comprehensive-health-monitoring"},"modified":"2021-02-15T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T23:22:18","slug":"new-skin-patch-promises-comprehensive-health-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/new-skin-patch-promises-comprehensive-health-monitoring","title":{"rendered":"New skin patch promises comprehensive health monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-skin-patch-promises-comprehensive-health-monitoring.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201d This type of wearable would be very helpful for people with underlying medical conditions to monitor their own health on a regular basis,\u201d co-first author of the study Lu Yin said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>New wearable device converts body heat into electricity.<br \/> \u201cIt would also serve as a great tool for remote patient monitoring, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when people are minimizing in-person visits to the clinic,\u201d Yin, a nano-engineering doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to monitoring chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure, as well as pinpointing the onset of sepsis, the patch could help predict people at risk of becoming severely ill with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have developed a thin, flexible skin patch, worn on the neck, that can provide all-in-one health monitoring capabilities, including the wearer\u2019s heart rate, blood pressure and glucose levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u201d This type of wearable would be very helpful for people with underlying medical conditions to monitor their own health on a regular basis,\u201d co-first author of the study Lu Yin said in a news release. New wearable device converts body heat into electricity. \u201cIt would also serve as a great tool for remote patient [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1495,4,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-health","category-nanotechnology","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}