Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and metabolic disease.1-3 Treatment of OSA with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) can ameliorate high blood pressure4 and insulin resistance.5 Because OSA is a prevalent disorder affecting 4.5% and 3.2% of Korean men and women, respectively,6 adequate screening for the disease is a major health issue. The...

Low-cost technologies to diagnose and monitor human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in developing countries are a major subject of current research and health care in the developing world. With the great need to increase access to affordable HIV monitoring services in rural areas of developing countries, much work has been focus on the development of point-of-care technologies that are a...

The design of portable systems for remote monitoring of cardiac activity is one of the most important fields in telemedicine and telecare. In this paper we present a low cost, portable system with wireless transmission for real time ECG acquisition, archiving and visualization both in a mobile phone and a PC. We have implemented the acquisition module and the visualization tool for the mobile d...