Abstract: This paper illustrates the creation of a portable Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator that uses ultrasonic sensors and load cells interfaced with a microcontroller to determine BMI ...

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A major new study using advanced body fat scanning reveals that the widely used BMI system may be getting it wrong for a huge number of people. Credit: Shutterstock BMI might be misleading millions ...

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I consider myself a healthy person. I eat plenty of fruit and veg, am obsessed with fibre, rock climb twice a week and try to squeeze in a lunchtime jog on the days I don’t. But when I recently ...

Share on Pinterest A new study found that waist-to-height ratio was closely linked to heart disease risk than BMI or waist circumference. Ableimages/Getty Images A new study suggests your body shape ...

Taiwan's Innolux and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) have developed the world's first mass-producible liquid crystal gradient-index (LC gradient index) glasses, overcoming longstanding ...

Performance rights organization BMI says it has reached a settlement on royalties paid to artists and songwriters on US radio, in what it calls its “largest rate increase ever” for radio play. The ...

BMI is still commonly used to assess obesity even though research has shown it's not necessarily a reliable metric. A new study proposes doctors instead use technology that can measure body fat. Body ...

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to fast-track certain patients into a “code ...

Out-of-pocket cost modeling of EUROPA trial arms for adjuvant breast cancer therapy: Five days of radiation versus five years of antiestrogen therapy. The effect of endocrine therapy omission on ...