Health News

What can smartphone location data tell us about the pandemic?

Kevin Williams, an associate professor of economics at Yale SOM, was in the middle of a study of consumer retail behavior using real-time cell phone location data when COVID-19 hit. Shelter-in-place orders rolled across the country. Foot traffic at stores froze. “If you thought the retail apocalypse looked bad a few years ago, that is […]

Health Problems

Smartphone app to screen for early signs of dementia

Testing for dementia among elderly could one day be as simple as talking into a smartphone thanks to speech-analyzing technology being developed by engineers at UNSW Sydney. An app that uses machine learning technology will look at paralinguistic features of a person’s speech—such as prosody, pitch, volume and intonation—as well as testing memory recall. Dr. […]

Personal Health

Jesper Juul is dead

For years, Jesper Juul was not occurred because of a serious illness to the public. Instead, the well-known family therapist, has lived in seclusion in his native Denmark. There he is in the early Morning of the 25th. July to pneumonia and died. He was 71 years old. The Institute Familylab, quoting Juuls adult son […]