HealthLeaders Media May 9, 2022
Researchers at The Ohio State University are developing digital health technology that can track one’s health through a small device worn on the ear or finger by measuring small amounts of gas emitted through the skin.
The next generation of digital health wearable might focus on body gases.
Fart and BO jokes aside, researchers at The Ohio State University are working on skin sensors that detect gaseous acetone leaving the skin. Those emissions could contain biomarkers for a wide range of health issues, including diabetes and heart disease.
“Discerning health issues through the skin is really the ultimate frontier,” Pelagia-Iren Gouma, a member of the research team and professor of materials science and engineering at OSU, said in a press...
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