Cardiology

Detecting carpal tunnel syndrome with a smartphone game

A Japanese research group combined motion analysis that uses smartphone application and machine learning that uses an anomaly detection method, thereby developing a technique to easily screen for carpal tunnel syndrome. Carpal ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

The effect of football results on the well-being of viewers

Psychologists at the University of Konstanz have determined that football results can raise the immediate sense of well-being for viewers, but are unlikely to sustain it in the longer-term. Through a specially-designed smartphone ...

Surgery

Game teaches surgical decision-making

A new, Web-based game could go a long way toward plugging what James Lau, MD, calls a gaping hole in surgical education.