Psychology & Psychiatry

Do I look mad? Reading facial cues with the touch-screen generation

Are today's children, who grew up with mobile technology from birth, worse at reading emotions and picking up cues from people's faces than children who didn't grow up with tablets and smartphones? A new UCLA psychology study ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Smart surveillance tech dents malaria in Indian city

New cases of malaria decreased by 83 percent in the southern Indian city of Mangaluru five years after the implementation of a digitized smart surveillance system, reports a study published this month in Malaria Journal.

Health

Mobile technology to promote adolescent sexual health

A project that explores how mobile technology can help to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health has led to collaboration between academics from UTS and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).

Oncology & Cancer

iPhone app offers quick and inexpensive melanoma screening

The idea sounds simple: Take a photo of a suspicious mole or lesion with your phone, run it through an embedded software program and find out within a few seconds if it is likely to be cancerous.

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