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Almost 40% of university students surveyed are addicted to their phones

A team of researchers at King’s College London has found that nearly 40% of students surveyed exhibited symptoms of addiction to their smartphone. In their paper published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, the researchers describe their study and what they found. Smartphones have become pervasive in virtually all advanced societies around the world. And as features […]

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HEALTH NOTES: Pregnant women can now do DIY baby scan on phones

HEALTH NOTES: Pregnant women can now check up on their babies with DIY ultrasound – using their phones Pregnant women can now check up on their babies with a smartphone device.  The handheld tool, developed by Israeli company PulseNmore, allows women to perform ultrasounds at home, then send the scans to their doctor or specialist […]

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Six Shocking Facts About Addiction to Cell Phones

If your cell phone is taken away from you today, would you become more productive? Most likely. According to recent statistics, the average American spends around 2.8 hours on cell phones every day. If we take this number as average and multiply it by the number of years the average American lives, the total time […]