As Christopher Yakacki, Ph.D., told the crowd of entrepreneurs, judges and fans at the NFL’s 1st & Future innovation showcase the day before Super Bowl LII, “We’re a little different. We’re engineering professors that have been obsessed with finding new materials to improve human health.” Yakacki was referring to himself and fellow businessman Carl Frick, […]
Connexion Health’s sensor-based, artificial intelligence-powered walk-in kiosk has secured its first NBA client with the Sacramento Kings. The makers of the new kiosk, which parent company Aspire Ventures showcased for teams at last summer’s NBA combine, refer to the platform as the “iPhone of health care” for its ability to house third-party applications to tap […]
Former Olympian Angela Ruggiero, who won medals as part of the U.S. women’s hockey team over three winter Games, pledged to donate her brain for concussion research, it was announced by the Concussion Legacy Foundation. Ruggiero is a four-time Olympian who participated as recently as 2010 and has been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. […]
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Sharing space with a physical therapy center is an open-plan fitness center as big as an airplane hangar and brimming with activity. While a rehabbing NFL player did deadlifts in the center of the facility, off to the corner stood a former minor league pitcher toeing the rubber of a high-density […]
Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid embraced the nickname of “The Process,” the oft-repeated refrain his franchise’s former general manager kept repeating to assure fans that the team was, in fact, rebuilding and improving. Embiid’s own return to the court was nearly as long of a process, as a broken bone in his foot sidelined him […]
