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Smartphone-based mall walking program could boost daily step count, study suggests

Researchers from Japan evaluated the effectiveness of smartphone-based programs that conduct mall walking in increasing the daily step count, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic.

1 Feb 2024

One in six admit they probably wouldn't know if their child was betting online, national poll suggests

The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health surveyed a national sample of parents with teens aged 14-18 years to gather insights into online betting behaviors and parental awareness.

25 Jan 2024

Kiwifruit improves vitality and mood in as little as four days

Kiwifruit has proven itself as a powerful mood booster and new research from the University of Otago has shown just how fast its effects can be.

24 Jan 2024

AI Therapy companion 'replika' gains traction among lonely students

The young adult mental health outcomes of using a GPT3-enabled chatbot.

24 Jan 2024

Researchers develop a monitoring technology to identify individual factors provoking atrial fibrillation

Researchers from two Lithuanian universities have developed a patient-safe monitoring technology to identify and manage individual factors provoking atrial fibrillation.

23 Jan 2024

What’s indoor air quality like in long-term care facilities during wildfires? Worse than you’d think.

Every year, wildfires across the western U.S. and Canada send plumes of smoke into the sky. When that smoke blows into southwestern Idaho’s Treasure Valley, it blankets Boise-area residents in dirty air.

23 Jan 2024

‘A complete waste of a wonderful mind and body’: Qualitative study of parents’ challenges with their adolescents’ screen use

Understanding parental perceptions on the management of adolescent screen use.

22 Jan 2024

UNC scientists develop "smart" patch for precision drug delivery

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists created a new drug delivery system, called the Spatiotemporal On-Demand Patch (SOP), which can receive commands wirelessly from a smartphone or computer to schedule and trigger the release of drugs from individual microneedles.

18 Jan 2024

Research projects aim to develop breakthrough digital technology for improving heart and brain health

A special issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association spotlights the progress of ongoing projects aimed at developing breakthrough digital technology solutions to improve heart and brain health on a global scale.

16 Jan 2024

Is AI the future of personalized hypertension risk assessment, diagnosis, and treatment?

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications for treating hypertension (HTN) and its comorbidities.

16 Jan 2024

Binghamton University develops app to help study and prevent falls in older adults

Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York's Motion Analysis Research Laboratory have developed an app to help study and prevent falls in older adults.

16 Jan 2024

AI models for mental health hit generalizability snag

Scientists from Yale and the University of Cologne were able to show that statistical models created by artificial intelligence (AI) predict very accurately whether a medication responds in people with schizophrenia.

12 Jan 2024

Smartphone app offers relief for debilitating tinnitus

An international research team has shown that the debilitating impact of tinnitus can be effectively reduced in just weeks by a training course and sound therapy delivered via a smartphone app.

9 Jan 2024

COMPANION study of digital therapy demonstrates reduced anxiety in patients with pulmonary fibrosis

Vicore Pharma Holding AB (publ), unlocking the potential of a new class of drug candidates, angiotensin II type 2 receptor agonists (ATRAGs), today announced positive results of the COMPANION study (NCT05330312), investigating the efficacy of AlmeeTM, a 9-week digital cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) accessed through a smartphone or tablet.

8 Jan 2024

Digital CBT intervention reduces anxiety and improves quality of life for pulmonary fibrosis patients

Alex Therapeutics and Vicore Pharma today announced positive results of the COMPANION study, investigating the efficacy of Almee, a 9-week digital cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention accessed through a smartphone or tablet.

8 Jan 2024

New app helps patients with alcohol-related liver disease recover, saves lives

A mobile phone app which helps patients with alcohol-related liver disease to stay sober could help save hundreds of lives every year, according to researchers from UCL and the Royal Free Hospital who developed the app.

5 Jan 2024

Groundbreaking treatment tool being developed for male breast cancer diagnosis

Doctors diagnosed Christopher Gregg, Ph.D., member of the Nuclear Control of Cell Growth and Differentiation Program at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) and neuroscientist and professor of neurobiology and human genetics at the U, with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in 2018.

21 Dec 2023

Smartphone News and Research

Smartphone-based mall walking program could boost daily step count, study suggests

One in six admit they probably wouldn't know if their child was betting online, national poll suggests

Kiwifruit improves vitality and mood in as little as four days

AI Therapy companion 'replika' gains traction among lonely students

Researchers develop a monitoring technology to identify individual factors provoking atrial fibrillation

What’s indoor air quality like in long-term care facilities during wildfires? Worse than you’d think.

‘A complete waste of a wonderful mind and body’: Qualitative study of parents’ challenges with their adolescents’ screen use

UNC scientists develop "smart" patch for precision drug delivery

Research projects aim to develop breakthrough digital technology for improving heart and brain health

Is AI the future of personalized hypertension risk assessment, diagnosis, and treatment?

Binghamton University develops app to help study and prevent falls in older adults

AI models for mental health hit generalizability snag

Smartphone app offers relief for debilitating tinnitus

COMPANION study of digital therapy demonstrates reduced anxiety in patients with pulmonary fibrosis

Digital CBT intervention reduces anxiety and improves quality of life for pulmonary fibrosis patients

New app helps patients with alcohol-related liver disease recover, saves lives

Groundbreaking treatment tool being developed for male breast cancer diagnosis

Smartwatches help physicians to diagnose arrhythmias in children

People with disabilities hope autonomous vehicles deliver independence

What level of smartphone use affects adolescent health?

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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