Painful menstrual cramps? Acupressure app may help, says study
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.
Dec 11, 2017, 14:14 PM ISTThis app may help you check power of your lenses
Lenskart has invested $1 million to introduce 6over6's technology in India.
Dec 07, 2017, 20:15 PM ISTDigitalisation in Health Insurance
Digitalisation in health insurance affords the insurer and the insured a lot of benefits.
Oct 31, 2017, 21:09 PM IST'Heart Attack' app to help you find nearest hospital
The app -- named "Heart Attack" -- would guide patients with real time information about the nearest hospital capable of immediate care.
Sep 10, 2017, 19:44 PM ISTNew app can replace ultrasound to measure heart health
LVEF is most commonly measured using an ultrasound machine during a procedure known as echocardiography.
Sep 06, 2017, 18:28 PM ISTSmartphone app can predict disease risk based on health inputs
The smart report feature helps uncover latent diseases and predict risk of future ones and to expose any latent ones.
Aug 08, 2017, 20:31 PM ISTDo you let smartphone apps track your period? They may be giving you inaccurate information!
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.
May 07, 2017, 19:51 PM ISTInteractive health apps good but watch the tone
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.
Feb 25, 2017, 16:57 PM ISTSudden cardiac arrest? This app can help you
The new smartphone application helps connect rescuers with lifesaving AEDs and victims with sudden cardiac arrest.
Nov 08, 2015, 10:31 AM ISTNot many young US citizens using health apps: Survey
There is still much more to be learned about how we can make best use of the wide variety of health apps now available.
Nov 04, 2015, 14:34 PM ISTNew mobile app to help people with autism
British researchers have developed a new mobile app that could involve people with autism in the development of new technologies for their own use.
Oct 05, 2015, 12:59 PM ISTSmartphone health apps may pose privacy risk
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.
Sep 25, 2015, 18:21 PM IST