Health

Food-focused phone apps help families

Ensuring healthy family meals can be greatly helped by mobile phone apps, mainly due to the appeal of the best apps' time-saving qualities for busy parents, according to Flinders University experts.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

As Europe faces 2nd wave of virus, tracing apps lack impact

Mobile apps tracing new COVID-19 cases were touted as a key part of Europe's plan to beat the coronavirus outbreak. Seven months into the pandemic, virus cases are surging again and the apps have not been widely adopted due ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How the Swiss fared under partial lockdown

A joint study by EPFL, the Idiap Research Institute and the University of Lausanne's Institute of Psychology has provided us with a unique snapshot of how Swiss residents experienced the partial lockdown measures resulting ...

Health informatics

Researcher creates rating system for mobile health apps

With more than 300,000 mobile health apps available, it's tough to know which ones are best, but a University of Alberta researcher has developed a way to help sort through the tangle.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Contact tracing useless unless it's speedy: study

(HealthDay)—It's the Holy Grail for containing the spread of coronavirus, but contact tracing only works if it is done quickly, researchers report.

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