As a spouse who may spend time in a custody battle for a child, there are some misconceptions that are easily cleared up with the assistance of a New York custody lawyer. For example, many parents are under the mistaken impression that the courts favor the mother as a parent more than the father and while this sentiment might have been accurate decades ago, it is no longer the case in modern court that a particular parent will be favored over another simply because of gender. The court will always attempt to decide what's best for the child without the gender of a parent influencing that decision.

With the advances of home measurement medical devices for a variety of conditions that require constant monitoring such as diabetes, sleep apnea, and high blood pressure, the use of measurement devices on a home basis has steadily risen in recent years with advances in home measuring technology. Pulse oximeters, for example have greatly increased in popularity with sales in the United States of the devices reaching over two hundred million by the middle of the last decade. By 2013, sales of these devices are expected to reach over three hundred million each year. Currently over half of the medical equipment exported from China is pulse oximeters.