Health
Diet or exercise—or both?
(HealthDay)—There's no doubt that an unhealthy diet and couch potato lifestyle put your health at risk, but when considering improvements, should you change one at a time or both at once?
Jan 21, 2019
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Health
Smartphones: Are they just a pain in the neck?
A large majority of the world's 3.4 billion smartphone users are putting their necks at risk every time they send a text, according to new research involving the University of South Australia.
Jan 16, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Worry over kids' excessive smartphone use is more justified than ever before
Parents who fear their kids are spending too much time in front of screens now have more reason for concern.
Dec 14, 2018
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Immunology
Study helping to repair asthma patients' lungs
A number of patients who suffer from asthma are bringing their condition under control, increasing their lung function and decreasing the frequency of asthma attacks—all without going to the doctor's office. The patients ...
Dec 14, 2018
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Medical research
No bleeding required: Anemia detection via smartphone
Biomedical engineers have developed a smartphone app for the non-invasive detection of anemia. Instead of a blood test, the app uses photos of someone's fingernails taken on a smartphone to accurately measure how much hemoglobin ...
Dec 4, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
App helps breast cancer survivors improve health after treatment
Breast cancer survivors who used a smartphone app created at Houston Methodist consistently lost weight, largely due to daily, real-time interactions with their health care team via the mobile app. Few clinically-tested mobile ...
Dec 1, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
AI-based smartphone app can help cut cancer pain severity
(HealthDay)—An artificial intelligence (AI)-based smartphone app can reduce the severity of cancer patients' reported pain and hospital admissions, according to a study presented at the annual Palliative and Supportive ...
Nov 21, 2018
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HIV & AIDS
Mobile health has power to transform HIV/AIDS nursing
The abundance of personal smartphones in southern African countries got University of Washington professor Sarah Gimbel thinking: What if these phones were used by front-line health workers—namely nurses—to collect and ...
Nov 21, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Simple smartphone app that could help OCD sufferers
Imagine feeling anxious every time you touched a doorknob or dirty surface – maybe even spending hours washing and scrubbing your hands afterwards, sometimes until they bleed. For sufferers of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ...
Nov 20, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
College students choose smartphones over food
University at Buffalo researchers have found that college students prefer food deprivation over smartphone deprivation, according to results from a paper in Addictive Behaviors.
Nov 16, 2018
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