Scores are ubiquitous today, from data in parenting apps to fitness monitors. For some users, those scores start to shape a sense of right and wrong.
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Some period trackers can import information from other apps and wearables, and data can be used by third parties, sometimes without app users’ consent.
Here’s what to look for when you’re browsing for apps.
Fixating on sleep can make your sleep worse. But some people crave the connection online sleep communities provide.
Claims regarding on these apps’ effectiveness are often based on less than robust findings.
An analysis of 12 popular apps’ privacy policies reveals a number of concerns, including confusing privacy messages and unnecessarily long data retention windows.
Research indicates people would be willing to give up privacy to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mobile health apps, teleconferencing with experts and thoughtfully designed educational platforms can all help families during the chaotic and confusing early years.
Whether a technology helps or hurts people depends not on how much time they spend with it, but how they use it.
As health care grows more digital, an array of health apps promise to track steps, count heartbeats and look at moles. But without more FDA oversight, could we be shooting ourselves in the foot?
Can today’s crisis in mental health be seen as the result of neoliberalism, the 2007/08 financial crisis and the austerity policies that followed?
An app could help diagnose one of the most deadly cancers at the early stages using eye-scanning technology.
Project Baseline opens up new opportunities in health care, both for the researchers working with big data and for consumers who want more sophisticated ways to track their health.
Apps and wearable devices promise greater participation and empowerment in health care. But what are we risking when we take part in this new era of participatory health?
With an estimated 100,000 health and fitness apps available, it seems there is an app for everything – from tracking your bowel movements to practising your pimple-popping technique.
Having ‘approved’ poor quality, privacy-busting and clinically dubious apps, the NHS Health App Library closes - but it didn’t need to be this way.
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Professor, research professor in exercise, nutrition and activity, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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