Health apps News

To see if a smartphone app could help women self-administer acupressure for cramps, researchers randomly assigned 221 women to use the app or to stick with usual care for six months.

Lenskart has invested $1 million to introduce 6over6's technology in India. 

Digitalisation in health insurance affords the insurer and the insured a lot of benefits.

The app -- named "Heart Attack" -- would guide patients with real time information about the nearest hospital capable of immediate care.

LVEF is most commonly measured using an ultrasound machine during a procedure known as echocardiography. 

The smart report feature helps uncover latent diseases and predict risk of future ones and to expose any latent ones.

Many apps do not allow users to correct them when the predictions are wrong or to input data or explanations about why a particularly stressful month or change in birth control might have thrown off their cycles, researchers said.

People who experienced a back-and-forth interaction with an online health risk assessment website were more likely to follow the health behaviours suggested by the tool.

The new smartphone application helps connect rescuers with lifesaving AEDs and victims with sudden cardiac arrest.

There is still much more to be learned about how we can make best use of the wide variety of health apps now available.

British researchers have developed a new mobile app that could involve people with autism in the development of new technologies for their own use.

Some clinically-accredited smartphone health apps may be sending unencrypted personal and health information, putting the privacy of users at risk, a new study has found.