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 […]
Looking down at phones ‘is causing bony spikes to grow on our skulls’
Mobile phones are changing the human skeleton: People spend so much time hunched over screens that ‘bony spikes’ are developing on the backs of our skulls Researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia did the study People are increasingly growing lumps of bone at the bases of their skulls The bone forms […]
About half of parents use cell phones while driving with young children in the car
A new study from a team of researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) found that in the previous three months, about half of parents talked on a cell phone while driving when their children between the ages of 4 and 10 were in the […]
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 […]