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AppliedVR, an immersive therapeutics company, announced that Pittsburgh-based Highmark, a Blue Cross Blue Shield-affiliated health insurer, will be the first health plan to cover RelieVRx, AppliedVR’s FDA-cleared virtual reality offering to treat chronic low back pain. Eligible Highmark members 18 years and older diagnosed with moderate to severe chronic low back pain will be able […]
Researchers from the Department of Dental Medicine and the Aging Research Center (ARC) at Karolinska Institutet and from Karlstad University in Sweden suggest that the loss of chewing ability may be linked to cognitive decline and a higher risk of dementia. Dementia is a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, […]
Nicolette Sullivan, lead author and doctoral student at Caltech, right, oversees Weiyan Chee, 27, as she participates in a test of how the “tastiness” and the “healthiness” of a food influence the choices of what we eat. PASADENA >> Giving …