From kegels apps to feminist chatbots, digital solutions led by women aim to improve periods, pregnancy and mental healthWe know that technology has historically been a field dominated by men. But things are starting to change. Whether they’re helping …
Charity’s report into effects of technology on under-18s warns of threat to mental healthChildren aged five and under are at risk of becoming addicted to the internet in a trend that could damage their mental health, according to Barnardo’s.The charity…
Tech and drug firms including Google parent Alphabet want to use records of 65 million people The NHS is a valuable national asset – and not just in terms of the lives it saves.Last week the tensions between the health service’s role as a collective na…
The Femm app has users in the US, EU and Africa and sows doubt over the safety of birth control, a Guardian investigation has foundA popular women’s health and fertility app sows doubt about birth control, features claims from medical advisers who are …
Spending too much time at home or in the office is confusing our bodies, which are telling us to get out moreAs a species we need to get out more. Humans now spend so much time indoors that many of us are cultivating a variety of serious health complai…
Patients doing a digital check of symptoms will be told by AI if they need to go to hospitalMillions of patients will be encouraged to use digital technology to assess how ill they are under a groundbreaking initiative by a leading NHS hospital, as par…
Dr Robin Russell-Jones and Geraint Davies MP on the harmful effects of diesel exhaust, and Christine Benning on why we need a cheap electric car for all, not Tesla’s Model 3The harmful effects of air pollution during early life deserve greater attentio…
A growing number of Britons are turning to online fundraising for essential treatment in a desperate, ‘Dickensian’ attempt to get around NHS shortfalls. But does it work?Heather Bellamy’s March appointment at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in King’s Lynn…
Reducing blue light exposure at night may decrease fatigue and mood swings, researchers findSleep problems suffered by teenagers can be improved after just one week by limiting evening exposure to light-emitting screens on mobile phones, tablets and co…
Adverts constantly bombard us on social media, undermining our self-confidence. We know the cost – this can’t continueIn the early 2000s, the internet was a key component of my teenage life: many evenings we annoyed my friends’ parents by hogging the p…
Oxford researchers say parents should talk to their children about their experiencesTime spent on social media has only a “trivial” impact on life satisfaction among adolescents, say researchers.The team behind a new study say time spent on social medi…
Vulnerable groups ‘could be left behind by technology revolution in medicine’, widening health inequalityFitness trackers should be prescribed on the NHS to stop a further widening of health inequality, a new review has warned.Some of the poorest commu…
Health technology catering to women has covered fertility, periods, mental wellbeing and more. Now tech entrepreneurs are catering to the 13 million women in menopauseWhen Lina Chan received care to help her conceive in her late 30s, she couldn’t help …
After trials in mental health wards, the government wants paramedics to use the cameras. But there are privacy concernsThe notion of mental health nurses switching on a body-worn camera to film violent incidents on wards may seem controversial, but for…
Mother alarmed after anti-vaccination propaganda found inside book bought for son, who is about to receive the HPV jabConcerns have been raised that the anti-vaccination movement is targeting children via Amazon warehouses, after a Hampshire mother fou…
Government-backed initiative aims to improve social media giants’ response to unsafe contentTech giants including Google, Facebook and Snapchat will work alongside suicide prevention experts from the Samaritans in a new government-backed project aimed …
UCL professor says digital world disrupts family life, risking mental health of youngstersOne of the world’s foremost authorities on child mental health today warns that technology is threatening child development by disrupting the crucial learning rel…
Susan Treagus doesn’t want to see the skin on the back of her hands flapping about in an air jet, Marian Nyman objects to the noise, while Lesley Matthews favours the shaking methodWhat a fascinating long read (World War Loo, 25 April). The Dyson Airbl…
New WHO guidelines warn of the dangers of too much screen time. Quite right: however in my house, it has its benefitsIt is the Easter holidays, and on the streets of New York, the happy sounds of the coming of spring: children’s laughter, birdsong and …
For a century, the humble paper towel has dominated public toilets. But a new generation of hand dryers has sparked a war for loo supremacy. By Samanth SubramanianIn the summer of 2005, a Chicago marketing consultant named George Campbell received a ta…
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