Nudges improve food choices and cut calories when shopping for groceries online
A team of Duke-NUS Medical School researchers designed and tested a new digital toolkit that helps consumers make healthier grocery choices online — an innovation that could play a major role in the global fight against chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes. In their study, published in the American Journal of Preventive […]
Smartwatches and fitness bands reveal individual physiological responses to COVID-19 vaccine: Scientists find digital biomarkers that could be associated with vaccine-induced immune response
A new digital health study by researchers at Scripps Research shows how data from wearable sensors, such as smartwatches and fitness bands, can track a person’s physiological response to the COVID-19 vaccination. The study, published in npj Digital Medicine, analyzed sensor data on sleep, activity and heart rate from over 5,600 individuals. Among the findings, […]
Digital Device Proves Effective for Treating Urinary Incontinence in Women
Pelvic floor muscle training using a motion-based digital intravaginal device significantly improved symptoms for women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) compared with a home training program, a virtually conducted randomized controlled trial showed. Participants who used the device had greater improvements in urinary symptom severity and degree of bother as measured by the Urogenital Distress […]
10 Ways To Alleviate Tech Neck, According To Experts
In a digital age where you use your tablet for games, your laptop for virtual meetings and your phone for emails, it’s safe to say your neck is bearing the brunt of it all. Turns out that the pain, soreness and tension you’re feeling in your neck has a name: tech neck. Though sometimes it’s […]
Should Physicians Invest in Cryptocurrency?
In 2009, I came across a white paper written by Satoshi Nakamoto describing a digital currency based on a peer-to-peer network, completely independent of central banks, autonomous, decentralized, and digital, which would provide access to finance and banking to the masses. This “magical internet money,” as it was described at the time, would come to […]